September 30, 2025 • 41 mins
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(01:13):
been a night so far. This is this has been
a night so far. It's been a weekend, it's been
a night, it's been a day. It's a lot going on.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You know, boy, I said to myself after yes, I'm
going okay, no matter what happens, there's no way the
Jets can top the Mets from today. But boy, they
gave it a shot. Man, the Jets. They really did.
They did. They said, no, no, no, no, no, you
think that will break your heart? Just wait, do you
see us on Monday night with the turnovers and the penalties. Yeah,
you'll love that.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Thirteen penalties, couple that were suspect, three turnovers, all fumbles
lost including one on really what was probably the best
drive that you'd have this entire year. You would hang
that in the love.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Oh sure, until he dropped the ball at the one
and then you're not. Then you're not.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Then it goes to the trash.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, then you're not.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
You're not doing Maybe it shows up in some you know,
somebody's a bunker, but picked from the trash. But Grete
twelve play drive commanding one of the only times you
had a sequence where you woren't taken back five yards.
I mean, that was a very uncomfortable watch for a while.
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On both sides. You have five yards no, no, no, no,
I want to give you those five yards back. It's like, okay,
now we've wasted five minutes a game clock and then
it's we're running in place, which is stupid.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And now everybody's cluing into the fact. Oh so this
is why Jason and Might kept saying last week, don't
say the team's on Monday night, just say those games watch,
don't Hey, who's playing?
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We got more NFL coming up in a few minutes,
but major League Baseball the playoffs start to start tomorrow,
and yes, okay, this on the Mets before we get
to the playoffs, because so after I mean, I couldn't
even get on social media yesterday because everything was just
what an incredible you would think. The Mets were like
the Tigers. The Tigers gave away a fifteen and a
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half game lead and squeaking into the playoffs the way
they did.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I have knowledge though, that for a while the Mets
had the best record in basement, yeah they did, no,
but but then the thing is, for a longer time
we were one of the worst teams in base bottom
five records A terrible and yes we're absolutely terrible. Now,
first thing I want to say is this, it's too bad.
Nobody saw it coming. Oh wait, I did again in
April when I said to you this, Right, we talked
(03:26):
about why the Mets, why the Mets collapsed all of
these bad things? Is number one, Defensively they're terrible. Right,
I'm with David Stearns, who gave us Prescott. Defensively, they're terrible.
But what did I say in April? This rotation plan
is great? But what's gonna happen when all of these
guys hit the wall in August? Because they're all at
their innings limits?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Kodai Sanga hasn't really pitched in two years. What's gonna
happen in August when he hits the skids and all
of a sudden he hits the wall. And it was
earlier and a guy who was your ace, you couldn't
even put him out there? Right?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Shauman and Iah was never healthy? Right, Frank came out
to us ever healthy. What's gonna happen Clay Holmes when
he hits the wall in August because he's never started
before in his career, what's getting What happened? Clay Holmes
hit the wall? Right, What's gonna happen when all these
guys you're counting on Tyler McGill, Oh, guess what hurt
out for the season? Everybody, everybody, all the guys they
brought in. Griffin Canning would have hit the wall as well,
but he got hurt earlier this year. What's gonna happen
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when you get to August and all of these guys
are done? And that's exactly what happened. The Mets got
to August where they kind of look the everything went
as well as it could the first couple of months,
did not go great the next couple of months, but
then they're where they should have been, probably in August.
But now they can't get out of it because all
their pitching just falls apart all at once.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Yeah, but then Danny McLean got called up and came
and else.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I told you in April this was gonna happen. That's
what's so frustrated. I'm watching and I'm watching usterday going
this is just everything that I This is the worst nightmare.
And of course all that's going through my head is
to catch Martin makes for the Reds last week, Alonzo.
It's one hundred and fifty mile an hour line drive
to let field that has caught for the final out
of an inning. It's just just tell it was coming.
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It's like the like the baseball God said, sorry, Mets,
We're gonna wear this collapse and wear it worse than
any other team in recent memory. And that's what yesterday was.
NFL Sunday social media is owned by look at the
collapse of the Mets and the Reds, who are just
basically like the Reds only have seven guys with their team,
but look at them. They're in the playoffs, right, don't worry.
(05:25):
You better beat the Reds at two geys.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Well because that But that's the other thing is it
stares in stark contrast to what we have here. For
those unaware, we do the show from the greater Los
Angeles area. Uh, and we're surrounded by a lot of
Dodger fans and and hi, everybody listening on a five
seventy LA.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Sports Mike, what does Vegas say?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I gotta I gotta pull up the Vegas odds as
we speak. But when we look at the way this
season went for the Dodgers. It became a can you
weather the storm until your pitching gets better, whereas you
were always waiting for it to fall off. Yeah, and
then the only you know, the biggest component of once
he started pitching was all right, how many starts are left?
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Was Clayton Kershaw and he ends up pitching to a
two five three e ern in his final Seatson.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Left off the wild card round. Look for the Mets
and the Jets, it's the same thing my teams said.
It's they wait around for something bad to happen, and
that's really what it was. But Jason and today go ahead,
well quick.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I wish you.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Weren't lying to us when you say this, but you
absolutely are, because the first three months of the season
you were actually peacocking every single segment who has the
best record in baseball? Because we did, and then we
were the best record in baseball and they were of
the worst. So there's no way you actually believed that
they were gonna tank.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
There's no way.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I didn't think they'd be I told you three months
ago they weren't gonna make the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
He thought I was crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Not the night for this Frostburg, Not the night for
this okay, not the night tomorrow night, fine, not the
night for.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
This to be.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
To be fair, I think you were just trying to
see if you can induce an aneurysm.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Hey, but I hit, but it is scared just seeing.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
How bad it wasn't it's awful. And again I'm not great, Bob,
not great, not great, butch, I'm pretty far from okay.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
The fundamentals right, like we're talking about with your jets.
It's like when it's the clean clean up the corners
that you're not doing.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
When they decided to bring Carlos Mendoza back today and
I saw that from David Searns and I just said, uh, great.
And it's not that I think it's all Carlos Mendoza's fault,
even though his pitching plans were terrible, right, that's the
one thing like his pitching plans and sticking with the
guys he's started, and it doesn't he have anybody he
can I mean, could yeah, continue to put Ryan Staneck
(07:31):
out there when he was terrible. But these are all
like things unique, unique to the Mets. But when he
Here's the thing is that sometimes a collapse is so
bad that even if the players do that are responsible
for it, and the manager that's responsible for it are
talented and are good people, you still have to move
on from them. You gotta move on because you got
(07:54):
to put this stink in the rear view mirror. And
some not every Hey, we lost a game at the end,
we missed the playoffs. But sometimes collapses are so bad,
and this collapse was so bad, right the Mets, All
what have you seen all day today? Look at the
top salaries in Major League Baseball three hundred thirty million
dollars this year. The Mets didn't make the playoffs. Sometimes
a collapse is so bad that you need to just
(08:15):
clean house and move on. And the Mets, Carlos Mendoza
should be gone. You gotta let Pete a Lonzo walk.
You got to try to trade Nimo McNeil. There needs
to be so many new players next year because this
collapse is just gonna continue to hang over the team.
And and you know Mendoza, Hey, is he a bad manager?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Could he have been done a better job this year? Yeah,
but you need to say, we have to have a
fresh start next year. And no matter what happens next year.
The first four game losing streak, should Carlos Mendoza still
be the guy and the Mets are gonna go, oh,
we're just gonna relive this over and over again. You
need to put as much distance as you can between
your team and the stink of this season. That's why
(08:55):
when they said, yeah, Mendoza's coming back, I'm like, dude,
I get it.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He's a good guys. That's but certainly they were missing
stuff and all it's gonna be is the same group
next year coming in that you're gonna say, Okay, no one,
we're gonna turn it around next year. No, you need
you need bold strokes. And there only needs to be
a handful of guys on the team from this year
because you can't trade Lindor though you got to move
in the second base, can't play short stuff anymore. Sodo's
gonna be back. Alvarez like, how many guys can you?
Speaker 7 (09:20):
Can?
Speaker 8 (09:20):
You say?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Even Diaz is saying he might opt out. Okay, you
gotta go. Then then you go, Diaz, Okay, you need
how you No, No, I can't, you can't. We've had
the best of Peter Alonzo. Can't bring him back the year.
Gotta let him go.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
We always talk about things in baseball, right, You've cited
Jason Stark telling you, hey, we always see stuff that
you've never seen in your life. So CHOEO Todi hits
his fifty fifth first guy in Major League Baseball history
to end the season with fifty five home runs. But
that Mets stat that started circulating, to me still is
just the most amazing stat of all time ohen seventy
(09:54):
when trailing after not one win, not one rally, they
had just not one m in flying in the air.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Nope, just one game. We're done with teams like this.
We're done, and they would have We're done talking. People
want to hear people, of course they want to hear about.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
More people want to hear about the Mets in the playoffs.
It's so embarrassing. I like the embarrassing story.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
So embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I bet you they don't. It's it's absolutely embarrassing.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Look at him twitch.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
But I will say this because I do want to say, listen,
I told you about the Mets in in in in April,
and what did I tell you last week? You know,
to flip this to the playoffs, What did I tell you?
Blake Snell is going to start game one for the Dodgers. No, no, no,
Yell has got no Blake Snell with I'm staying in
the game. Sorry, Dave Roberts, you you send you send
back to the bullpen. I'm staying in the game. This
(10:47):
is where Blake Snell became a Dodger and you give
them the ball in game one of the playoffs. This
is absolutely the right call. He's the right guy to
pitch game one because he's someone you want pitching as
much as possible in this series, right, however long you know, look,
obviously it's a shorter series. Okay, we get it, but
you want him going in game one. You don't want
to sit back and say, well we'll start Yamamoto in
(11:09):
game one. No, Blake Snell in game one. Who you
have the most confidence him in the playoffs? Who have
we seen before do it in the playoffs? Blake Snell,
He's absolutely the right guy to start game one. He's
just start game one of every series for the Dodgers
so we can pitch the most. He is a playoff guy, right,
He's not quite Madison Bumgarner. But if you said who
could be the next Madison Bumgarner? That's Blake Snell. He
(11:30):
is the guy they picked the right guy to start game.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Ohst season pitching twelve career games, ten starts, four and three,
record three thirty three e er A one two five whip.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Going owing back.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
To the point though, right, you talk about your mets
and their arms falling off and being unavailable. Blake Snell
eleven regular season starts for the Dodgers and got really
strong in September. Yeah, right now, because you.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Don't want him to get to get too tired to
pitch too much over the course of the season, run
out of gas in September and October, because that happens. Hey,
here's a guy who's been a veteran thirty years old, right, okay, perfect,
This is when he should be at his best. This
it should be like the normal. The normal best for
pitchers usually as they're great, is in the middle of
the season, when they get into that that big run
(12:20):
because they're throwing the ball well, they're playing well, they're
approaching every fifth day with confidence. You get to July
and August. These guys are normally terrific, but because of
the strain in their arms, they don't pitch as much
as they used to. Now September and October become I.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Don't know, but that becomes the amazing thing for this, right,
you cite all the guys getting ready to pitch for
the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
None of them have one hundred innings except for Holmimoto.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah yeah, I mean, look that you would think the
starting pitching now, they'd be able to go a little
bit deeper into games and and and not have that
bullpen because the less the dodgeraball I know Dave Roberts
has that itchy. They tell it, what, the less you
have on that bullpen, the better chance you have to win,
right because if you that bullpen is out, so they
(13:00):
are untrustworthy. There's not one person you can trust in
that bullpen, just one. You know what they left Tanner,
Scott Off. You can trust Asaki, maybe you can, but
the less than that bullpen have better off it. Yes,
the let's say, yes, I really thought Kersha would be closed.
Maybe next round he'll be on. He'll be on the thing.
(13:21):
But uh, look, if you were looking at a series
right with with all four series starts set to start tomorrow,
we got a big quadruple header in baseball. If you
said to me Hey, who's the visiting team that can
pull the upset in the first round. I actually, I
absolutely have one for you because we talk about how
how big the bullpen is. I'll take the Padres over
the Cubs in the first round series because of their bullpen,
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because as good as it is, they they made it
stronger at the deadline. This is when it starts to
really become an issue. And if your bullpen is lacking, wow,
it becomes a real achilles heel because you get into
it every single day. And yes, some teams have strong bullpens, right,
and they get struck. But the Padres bullpen is just
(14:05):
so good, you know, they can't wait to get to
their bullpen. Right. It's one of one of the old
times when hey, this game is getting kind of short,
you know, like you would look at hey, Yankee games
or eight innings because you're getting Rivera in the ninth, right,
Like it's gonna be so difficult. You only have six
outs before you hear saying man, like you're the you're
if you're if you're playing the potters, Like we have
six innings before we get to the guys, before we
(14:25):
get to the dudes, right, six innings before we get
to the dudes. So if you're looking, if I'm looking
for the visiting team to pull the upset, give me
the Padres over the Cups.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Yeah, I'm gonna get cheeky. I can't.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
I can't pick that one because people just say, oh,
you just hate the Cubs, which may may may may
not be true. I'm gonna take the Red Sox over
the Yankees. What you get win tomorrow and sends New
York into a spiral again when you're not listening.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
No, my dad's gonna show up and hit Harmon in
the face with something like a pie.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I got this batting him and I'm gonna put back. Hey,
I'm gonna put a mask about a pie.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
If he's on your birthday next month, yeah, you're probably
the great. And then he's and hit that's what he's
gonna do, Blue, My dad will do that.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
And he was glorious.
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weekend in sports with the Mets and the Jets and Syracuse.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Was it nice?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Button Ison lean as awful as it was? Right, I
told you that this is probably the worst because of
the sheer amount of things that happened to me. Is
always sports weekend I probably had in my life. I like,
this is more than just like my fantasy team lost.
So I lost in fantasy this week in Big Lee,
(17:44):
I was undefeated and I lost by three points? Okay,
why did I lose because I had Jalen Warren in
my lineup?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
No, because living in Los Angeles, I'm not getting up
at six o'clock in the morning to check my fantasy rosters.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
You don't look get up and listen to your friend.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I listened to you. I listened to you through osmosis
and uh and I'm like, okay, well he got a
clean bill of health and I didn't have to take
him out. Who was off the injury reports. Okay, he's
in the lineup. I could have put anybody on my
bench and and I would have won. Okay, So now
I understand, right, and that's painful and is this now?
But this is where I'm at because I think about
this now because when Roger Goodell said last week the
(18:23):
NFL is looking to add one international game a week,
like that's eventually where the NFL is gonna go one
international game a week. That's where I will stop doing
fantasy because I'm not gonna sit here and wake up
and worry about waking up at six o'clock in the
morning every week in case I have somebody who is
in or out. Oh boy, he's really good, so I
have to put in my lineup if he plays, but
(18:43):
I'm not sure if he's gonna play, And you never
know if all of a sudden during warm ups when
you're flying overseas, you don't know how things are gonna
go have the long plane ride is gonna be gon
depression socks. You have no idea how things are gonna be.
So that that's what I will stop because I'm like,
you know what, I'm not doing it. I'm not up
at six o'clock in the morning to change my lineup.
I'm not doing it. So that if that happens, I
(19:04):
will stop doing fantasy because it's not it's not worth it.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
The bridge to far hire a consultant. You think people
would do that, I would.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Hire people to manage your fantasy team.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Well, but I mean just for those instances you're on
like like you wake up the managers. You're my international
game manager officially. You make sure that I don't get
screwed by a late scratch.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
If I get screwed, it's and it's not any other
game other than the game at six six thirty in
the morning on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Well, or one of these situations like tonight, a lot
of people were pissed because they weren't They didn't realize
the Dolphins and Jets were kicking off early. Yeah, it's
because of your usual Monday night schedule. What you got
justin You know who cares about your fantasy team?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Who's that Frostburg?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Absolutely nobody.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
It's a bigger point about how you're gonna have to
manage your team way more intensely. Are you really do it?
They get up that you're gonna geup at six o'clock
in the mo I mean, don't complain about you're gonna
see West Coast fantasy participation. Yes, people are gonna be
like me, comes down, I'm not doing it. You care
or you don't not doing it?
Speaker 5 (20:10):
It's like you don't like it, don't watch it's the
same thing. And if it comes down to the margins
and that's it, it's just like an NFL game.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Maybebe I'm a little bit more upset about losing this
week than I say. I'm fine this week, but in
the future. Well, let me put it this way. Who'd
you lose to? I lost to Scott Porter Friday Night Lights.
He beat me. I'm like, being by two points? Did
you start Presaul? No? I did not start Presaul. Everything
else is fine, everything else is fine. I lot to that.
I'm like, come on, man, two points two points?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Sorry, Yeah, that happens. It's tough, man. I mean, that's
a tough end.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
It was a terrible week, and I think I think
it's really just the amalgamation the Yeah. Oh, it's agent
of all of these factors in the universe this week.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And I got to.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Eat well at least.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Uh sure.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Oh, I'm asking did you have any standout? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
I just stand out walk with theoi.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I'm trying to get batulism this week for something.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
That's what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Everything is bad this last three days, dude, I'm telling you. Man,
Syracuse on Saturday, the Mets yesterday, the Jets tonight. I mean,
come on, man, this is sports, this is sports.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Terror. You know who feels bad for you?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It's nobody bad man. It's bad things, man, bad things,
bad things, man bad just really well.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
They always say things come in threes. That would be
that would be it, right?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I mean, I honestly death of three seasons. I'm really
coming around to the fact that when, okay, when I
retire from doing sports, I'm gonna I'm gonna move to
a cabin.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
What do you mean from doing sports?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
You're just not gonna do sports, you know, when I retire,
like when I retire, Like, what does that mean?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You're still not gonna do sports.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
When I retire, Well, retire means you're not working anymore.
So when I retire, but you're still gonna do sports.
I don't know it is Patrick, he does sports. You
can't get away from.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
This, dude.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I really think I'm gonna make it out of this.
I'm gonna go too far in cabin in the woods.
The only people that know where I am are Pam
and Zoe that clicksand is knee high. No, no smartphones done.
I always thought we'd have more quicksand right. No, no,
no smartphones. I'll still have cable because I or streaming services.
You don't need a smartphone.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
It's the Mets.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
No no, no, no, no, but no no, but no
one to tell me about what's happening. I don't need
to I don't need to know. I don't need to
keep up on stuff. And I'm gonna live by myself,
off the grid, and it's I mean, it's gonna be
like some fun shit in twenty years is gonna go. Man,
I listen to the guy. He was such a big
sports fan and now nobody knows what happened to him.
The guy's disappear. It's like Eddie and the Cruise. He's
gonna be that guy, even more so at.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
And just at the bar.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Tell him you and the kid's gonna find me and
he's gonna he's gonna be like twenty five years old.
Day I went to George Washington and I'm doing my
senior thesis on you. And it's a movie and all
of a sudden, like you know, like Jesse Eisenberg would
play me, and then you know, because it's in twenty
years now or whatever it's gonna be. And then the
kid would be like zac Efron's kid, and like he
would come to me and he would say, are you
Jason Smith? And I'd have the big long beard. I
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wouldn't have a beer because I can't stand it, but
I would just have whatever. And I'd be dressed like
really weird, like I'd look like a Sasquatch. And he
would say are you Jason Smith? And I would just
kind of grunt at him, and he would hand a
like like Ray when when she gives Luke the lightsaber
on Achitoe and she hands out the lightsaber to Luke,
he would like hand be a Mets hat and I
would I would reach out and take it and throw
it in the river, and and I would just do
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and walk away and be like, wait, I wanted to
interview you about your life and why you live up
here in the woods. Mets the Jets. That's why I
live in the woods. Go back and take that to
your editor, editor. What's an editor? Okay? I didn't even
know what's going on in the world anymore because I'm
up in here in the woods the whole time.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
So two things.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
One, I was gonna take it down a different cinematic
jag once she said, Efron.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Don't you want to get away.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
From started singing all the songs from the Greatest Showman. Dude, dude,
either that or something from high school musical telling you
about that sounds like a great post sports life, Like, I'm.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Just what did we get you?
Speaker 5 (23:58):
A deal with a place that makes cheap burner phones,
So every time you get an update on a Metz
or jet you hate, you could just chuck it and
it's only like an eight dollars and come out.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I would get a phone where I couldn't even get texts.
I would not even get that, like you know what,
I'd want phones like the guys in Task have, Like
the bad guys in Task have these like flip phones
that have just rudimentary text and like remember you your
first phone to text, you had to like press the
number like you wanted to type the letter C. You
had to press the button with ABC on the three times.
Like those are the phones they have, Like that's the
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kind of phone. Had one of those old two way
pagers for work.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I hated that.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
That's kind of phone that Now we're talking like this,
I just gonna go like this time we talk like
people from Task it's how it is. Now, We're We're
done in the woods. I'm not even around anymore. I'm
like that bad that bad movie, I'm shamlain movie. They
were all in the woods and it was like they
made up this whole thing and they weren't. Weren't there
for Addie real reason that they know they wanted to
leave society. I kind of understand that.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Now, no Bautista's hanging out with you, I'd be in
the wood.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
I'm gonna be in the woods and know Pam and
Zoe the only ones, and that's it.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Can I play the Afghan wigs that lost in the
woods and there.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
With your TV and your VCR twenty years met his videotapes.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Trying to start a fire? What do you do?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I watched the nineteen eighty six baseball season over and
over and over and over and over.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
The Mets.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Uh no, either that or I like or I like
my other idea that I'm going to find sports because
the Mets and the Jets is no sports life. It's
no way to live, right, It's no way to live sports.
Like I would find sports that I don't really pay
that much of attention to, and I would suddenly be
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rabbit about it, and I would pick I said, real sports,
come on, man to some places.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
That is a berbone that listed that as his favorite
hobby once upon a time on the back of the
baseball card.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
That's a real sport, pinch hitting for pedro Borbone. And
I would pick these sports that no one that that
I would don't even follow, and all of a sudden,
I'd be rabbit about it, and I would and I
would pick the best in the sports. And that's who
I would be. That's why I would root for it.
If a couple of years they weren't good anymore, I'd
pick a new team, be rab because I would root
for the best. I'm done. I could have again. I
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could have picked the Yankees and the Giants, and I'd
have a great life, even Giants fans that know you're
laughing the Jets going, ah, we're just as bad as you.
We got a quarterback. It's you guys, just terrible.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Man.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
You guys can't even have a game where you commit
single digit penalties, Like that's how bad you are. Like,
I could have picked the Yankees and the Giants had
a great sports life, but I didn't, so I'd go
out and I'd watch like Champions League, Soccer, Formula one,
maybe just all the sports in Europe that are popular
that you know, and you would be a curling monster.
I would be Oh, curling, definitely. I would definitely be
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watching curling. Who's the best curling teams? If there's professional curling.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Maybe I got a club you could go to in Schenectady.
Maybe go visit my daughter at college next year. You
come with and I know the place.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Oh well, well, because I actually took the bus through
Schenectady a lot when I would like if you said
Schenectady in was where we were at? Yeah, I just
had this image of my to the bus driver saying,
Schenectady s connected. The next stop, Syracuse Schnectady the next op.
So that's a train stop in Brooklyn, right, Schenectady, Schnectady,
It's connectedy. I would. I would pick a lot of
levels of soccer in Europe because there's like seventeen different
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levels of teams. I would pick, and I would, I would,
I would. I would move someplace maybe where like I
know a really good team in a lower division is
so I know that every year things are gonna be Okay,
now I'm doing. I would follow teams in sports that
I don't even care about, but I would just go
crazy for them, like they're the Mets and the Jets,
I would say, And I can never be disappointed because again,
if two years you're not good, I'm going to the
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best team and I'm gonna suddenly leave you and go
for the best team. And that's it. Sell all my
gear that I bought off of eBay from that team
and buy a bunch of new gear for the other team.
And that's what I would do.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
All right.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
We got a suggestion off Twitter. John comes in with
you can start following Liverpool nothing else you get around
sinking Beatles songs? Sure, okay, and then start watching rugby
and put on a spring box shirt.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Oh, Australian rules football. I would definitely watch Australia.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Well, would you want to follow a team or would
you cheer for the guys that point and where the
snazzy Whites?
Speaker 4 (28:04):
I could.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I could cheer for those guys. Anytime i'd pick a team,
I'd pick it to the Australians football hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Yeah. Now suddenly I'm feeling I mean, I'm feeling people
got to go see a Gaelic football game.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
When we went over for the Taylor Swift Show last year,
I could get on more of that like that was
that was a raucous crowd and the beer was flowing.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
It was great.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, No more football, no more baseball, no more basketball,
no way yet. But but all these other sports, yeah
I could ah yeah yeah, maybe I'll do that instead.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Kind of dig this. Yeah yeah, yea yah yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Maybe you could start showing up at some of these
gaming conventions, although I would miss stuff like like Craft
and all that. Oh because I play my play all right,
people make money off the stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, yeah, you can do that.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Maybe that's maybe that's where you start doing. You have
your own Twitch channel.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Video game, Yes, I get into video games. That's what
I would. I get into video games. I would root
you a socket video games. No no, but I would know
and I would watch, Oh yeah, what I would video
game where you No, no, no, no, I wouldn't play. I
would watch the best gamers and root for the best gamers.
That's what I would do. That's not a sport, sure
it is, yeah, no sport sport you watch? Yeah, you watch?
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Oh you know what I would also do. I would
I would get one of those people because I can't
believe you can make money at this, but I would
get like one of those people that that teaches kids
how to play video games. Well like that's a big yeah.
No no, no, like there's people that are that are
kids brains are like sponges, they know how to play
video games. No, no, there's like Fortnite teachers. I know, I
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know parents who have hired people to teach their kids Fortnite.
Like that's a that's a thing, Like I would do that, Hey,
come teach me Fortnite because I want to go like that.
Well this people that it's actually not that. It's just
not that expensive. That's not that expensive. I mean it
so not like like you're making millions of dollars like this.
It's big niche industry that people. You know, all of
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a sudden, I'm making all this catch on it. No,
you make some money on it, but it's not it's
not something crazy. I would do it. Oh something like
I just I got this whole new world open to me,
my car and it doesn't have the mets of the
jets in it. See what we did right there. That's
a world. Right there, that's a world. We have changed
your world to you. You're now all positive. Now, I
still might want to live in the woods though the
woods might be a thing. I might try the woods
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first and then if that doesn't work, come back out.
I might try that first. Okay, But speaking of the
eighty six Mets, tell her to find out what's trending
in the wide well the sports from a man who
tonight brought me a DVD of the eighty six Mets
because he bought it wherever he was this weekend. That's
a true story.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
It's Steve Disager.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
We were in the woods, actually, were you really? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
The DVD store pretty popular in the woods.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
Yeah, as you say, they probably just got that in.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yeah, physical media still lives. Let's go.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
If I knew you had a VHN still working, you know, man,
I could have got you some other stuff too.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Hey whoa heyday, Disager eighty seven? We got Cardinals twins
coming up?
Speaker 5 (30:57):
How many eighties wrestling tapes because we can use.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Uh no, did not.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
And if you want to get into a tournament during
the year, you know, there is such a thing as
the US Open Cup with soccer, which crowns the absolute
best soccer team in this country, and it's.
Speaker 8 (31:13):
Open to everybody.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Minor league teams are playing against Messi and Miami, the
New York Renegades against some MLS team, Ventura County against whatever,
and then followed the different rounds. You could put up
a big bracket and keep filling it in on your wall.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
I like that, and you can play renegade in the background.
Let's renegade, as finally found.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
They did play that.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
By the way, over the weekend with the Steeler victory,
we had two NFL games tonight. Unfortunately one had the
Bengals and the other had the Jets, but we did
have two NFL games tonight.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
If you put both of these games together, they would
still not even be one average NFL game.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Because, in fact, the Jets have started the season zero
and four for a third time in the last seven seasons.
They got close, but lost twenty seven to twenty one
at Miami Jets with three fumbles thirteen penalties. Jets quarterback
Justin Fields did start. He's out of concussion protocol. He
had seven carries eighty one yards, an impressive touchdown run,
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had a TD pass. Jets running back Braylan Allen fumbled
at the one later left on a kickoff return injury
to the knee. Nick Folk of the Jets field goals
of fifty and fifty eight yards, but the Dolphins led
seventeen to three early third quarter Cincinnati's two and two,
and kind of lucky at that because remember they beat
Joe Flacco seventeen to sixteen in the season opener. Denver
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beat up Cincinnati tonight twenty eight to three. The final
bow knicks three total touchdowns, one interception, three hundred and
twenty six yards passing. The Bengals on the first drive
kicked a short field goal after that, nine drives five
first downs under one hundred yards of offense. Meanwhile, JK.
Dobbins of the Broncos sixteen carries one hundred one yards rushing.
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So the Bengals so far three of their first four
games they've been under two hundred yards of offense. That
hasn't happened to start a season since the two thousand
and nine Raiders. And a great item from stad Zinc
on how bad the Bengals have been these last two games.
The bad losses at Minnesota and at Denver. These last
two games each of them, the Bengals had lost by
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at least twenty five points, had under two hundred total
yards in each under sixty rushing yards, been out rushed
by at least one hundred yards in each game. They've
taken at least three sacks in each game. No other
NFL team in the Super Bowl era has done that
in back to back games.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
And until these Bengals, right, you know what, Steve, they
would absolutely beat the Jets.
Speaker 8 (33:37):
Who kind of like to see that?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Actually, dude, Jets Cowboys next week is yeah, let's go,
must see television.
Speaker 8 (33:43):
Man, I don't know Jets for points.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
I mean, remember the Cowboys a couple weeks ago had
that high scoring almost the same score in the overtime
against the General.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Over under forty six and a half. Let's go, Cowboys
will find a way to three. Jets only score three
points against the Cowboys.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
If we do have baseball items, as Texas Rangers manager
Bruce Bochi will not return, The Minnesota Twins fired manager
Roco ball Deli, the Giants fired manager Bob Melvin, who
back in July had his contract option picked up by
San Francisco for next year. And now the Buster Posey
the former catcher who runs the team has fired former
catcher Bob Melvin as manager.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
The Mets Carlos Mendoza, Will.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Richards clearly only have a one catcher limit.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
Front office something of the roster, the non player roster.
The Pirates gave inner manager Don Kelly the job full time.
The Dodgers will start pitcher Blake Snell and tomorrow night's
playoff opener against the Reds and pitcher Hunter Green at LA.
Native Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start Wednesday nights Game two for
LA and pitcher Roki.
Speaker 8 (34:43):
Sasakia the Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
He is on the roster this week, and Dodger catcher
Will Smith took batting practice tonight.
Speaker 8 (34:49):
Trying to return from a broken hand.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Third baseman Max Mounsey of LA says he's back this
week after a bruce leg and other injuries.
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(35:17):
of the NFL. It's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
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Speaker 1 (35:32):
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Speaker 4 (35:43):
He's enjoying your misery a little too much. Oh wow,
you know, I hate to.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
Say, I told yourself, brew Baker, Shoemaker. Won't you shine
my shoes for free maker? Okay, we get back into
Monday Night football coming up in a few minutes, and
that absolute abysmal effort by the Jets, but shrugging the
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controversy that's become a huge story today, especially that I
really think is just stupid. Is this whole Robert Slimb
Cohen thing?
Speaker 6 (36:19):
Right?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
So they get into it after the game yesterday Jaguars
beat the forty nine ers, and the DC of the
forty nine ers very upset and it looked like and
he and Cohen had to be restrained from each other
after the game. Now, what's the backdrop to this? Salah
went overboard the week before saying that, hey, we have
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to watch what they do because the Jaguars do a
great job of legally stealing signs, legally stealing the signs
that we send in from the sideline and using them,
and again said they're not doing anything illegal. It's not illegal.
They do a great jet because everybody looks to see
if they can steal signs and.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
See what's going on. Ye tendencies, little little ticks. Yeah, absolutely,
he went on.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
He went on to say that, yeah, uh, they do
a great job of legally stealing signs. So the game happens,
forty nine ers lose and sol and Cohen get into
it have to be separated midfield.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Keep your name out out your mouth.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
This is so stupid, because what's the what's the problem,
Robert Salah? If they're legally getting your signals? What the
hell are you so mad? He just met that you
lost stand why you so mad? I do want you
as a defensive coordinator, Like, why are you so mad?
Did they do something illegally during the game? Okay, we
need to know that, right, But here's why I know
it's a load of crap because Kyle Shanahan, who you
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would think would come to the defense of his DC
and would say, hey, Roberts mad, this this is I
got his back. He just said, yeah, these guys talking
about everything's fine.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
Well then and then like four times like where we're
done keeping at in the house, We're done with And I.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Was like, wait a minute, how do you not this
is very public that this happened. Everybody got to see this.
You're not saying, hey, I got Roberts back on this.
He was upset. We'll talk about this, we'll figure it
out for next time, X, Y and Z. But instead
it's just, yeah, not a big deal. Not a big
deal like Sala's out on an island with whatever is
going on right now, which is a really weird thing.
And I don't know that that's the message I would
send because he's your DC and this is a thing
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that happened that clearly he was pissed off. You cut
that guy loose, like, but this tells me that this
is stupid, because this is this solid just something fighting
some kind of battle that's not really out there. Because again,
if you're upset that someone's legally doing something. How do
you lose it? Then at the end you's upset just
because you're mad.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
And again the head coach would have his DC's back
no matter what right or wrong. Hey, I got your back.
It's like hey, if if you're significant other, if your
wife or husband gets in argument with somebody, even if
they're wrong, as a wife or husband, you have their
back because that's who you know. You're with them, right,
I got your back even if you're We can talk
about it after behind closed doors, but publicly, I'm going
(38:57):
to have your back. This is publicly chad it. Yeah no,
no that I don't care not talking about it, not
not doing it. Whoa dude, this is your DC where
something happened like this is this is this is a
controversy that's just stupid because I don't know why it is.
But yet the forty nine ers inflamed it and by
making it worse than it is. Because now the head
coach is saying, yeah, this is now, this is now done.
(39:19):
We're not talking about this anymore.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Yeah, it just becomes the all right, what are we
trying to get at? And this becomes does the league
office decide, well, you know what, this was enough that
we have to look at it, or like other things
that they just lift the end of the carpet and
try to brush it underneath. Was watching an episode of
the House of Guinness. Spoiler alert. They move a rug
over an ink stain and one of the guys is mad.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
They drink a lot of beer.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
What's about Guinness?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Okay, that's making sure.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
So that's a lot about beer.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
That's whole thing. Yeah, you know my dad likes to
say about Guinness. Yeah, roast beef in a glass kind
of yeah, But.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
I mean, look a big fan of heading to the
whole land of Ireland and all, and yes it is
roast beef in a glass, but listening history of it
all and going and reading about it and then having
this series come up when you've got people from the
Peaky Blinders attached, I'm in got it a big deal.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
This is one of those Week four NFL things that
really solid should know better, But the Niners find a
way to not deal with this thing. I mean, like,
I've watched the Niners and I go everything just seems
really tenuous with them right now, whether it's block brought
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party's health or whatever is going on with the coaches,
and I look at it, go Do I really believe
in them? But they always think they're that good. Do
I really think they're Hey, we're back to being the
team he was before everybody got hurt last year, or
do I think they're really skating on thin ice?
Speaker 5 (40:44):
Well, they still still have a whole issue to account for.
We had Baltimore and the Chargers for years with their
training staffs. I mean, certainly up in San Francisco. They've
continued to have injury after injury in question attached to
them in the Shanahan era. So yeah, I still have
those questions. But it's like when the Patriots, you'd have
the isolated team would call something out Indianapolis or Baltimore
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like nobody else, jumped up and down until they were
all retired or fired.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
Then all of a sudden he came back. Oh yeah,
you know, we.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
Used to have guys go through and sweep like where
was this ten years ago?
Speaker 1 (41:20):
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been a night so far. This is this has been
a night so far. It's been a weekend, it's been
a night, it's been a day. It's a lot going on.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You know, boy, I said to myself after yes, I'm
going okay, no matter what happens, there's no way the
Jets can top the Mets from today. But boy, they
gave it a shot. Man, the Jets. They really did.
They did. They said, no, no, no, no, no, you
think that will break your heart? Just wait, do you
see us on Monday night with the turnovers and the penalties. Yeah,
you'll love that.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Thirteen penalties, couple that were suspect, three turnovers, all fumbles
lost including one on really what was probably the best
drive that you'd have this entire year. You would hang
that in the love.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Oh sure, until he dropped the ball at the one
and then you're not. Then you're not.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Then it goes to the trash.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, then you're not.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
You're not doing Maybe it shows up in some you know,
somebody's a bunker, but picked from the trash. But Grete
twelve play drive commanding one of the only times you
had a sequence where you woren't taken back five yards.
I mean, that was a very uncomfortable watch for a while.
(02:19):
On both sides. You have five yards no, no, no, no,
I want to give you those five yards back. It's like, okay,
now we've wasted five minutes a game clock and then
it's we're running in place, which is stupid.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And now everybody's cluing into the fact. Oh so this
is why Jason and Might kept saying last week, don't
say the team's on Monday night, just say those games watch,
don't Hey, who's playing?
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We got more NFL coming up in a few minutes,
but major League Baseball the playoffs start to start tomorrow,
and yes, okay, this on the Mets before we get
to the playoffs, because so after I mean, I couldn't
even get on social media yesterday because everything was just
what an incredible you would think. The Mets were like
the Tigers. The Tigers gave away a fifteen and a
(03:02):
half game lead and squeaking into the playoffs the way
they did.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I have knowledge though, that for a while the Mets
had the best record in basement, yeah they did, no,
but but then the thing is, for a longer time
we were one of the worst teams in base bottom
five records A terrible and yes we're absolutely terrible. Now,
first thing I want to say is this, it's too bad.
Nobody saw it coming. Oh wait, I did again in
April when I said to you this, Right, we talked
(03:26):
about why the Mets, why the Mets collapsed all of
these bad things? Is number one, Defensively they're terrible. Right,
I'm with David Stearns, who gave us Prescott. Defensively, they're terrible.
But what did I say in April? This rotation plan
is great? But what's gonna happen when all of these
guys hit the wall in August? Because they're all at
their innings limits?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Kodai Sanga hasn't really pitched in two years. What's gonna
happen in August when he hits the skids and all
of a sudden he hits the wall. And it was
earlier and a guy who was your ace, you couldn't
even put him out there? Right?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Shauman and Iah was never healthy? Right, Frank came out
to us ever healthy. What's gonna happen Clay Holmes when
he hits the wall in August because he's never started
before in his career, what's getting What happened? Clay Holmes
hit the wall? Right, What's gonna happen when all these
guys you're counting on Tyler McGill, Oh, guess what hurt
out for the season? Everybody, everybody, all the guys they
brought in. Griffin Canning would have hit the wall as well,
but he got hurt earlier this year. What's gonna happen
(04:19):
when you get to August and all of these guys
are done? And that's exactly what happened. The Mets got
to August where they kind of look the everything went
as well as it could the first couple of months,
did not go great the next couple of months, but
then they're where they should have been, probably in August.
But now they can't get out of it because all
their pitching just falls apart all at once.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Yeah, but then Danny McLean got called up and came
and else.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I told you in April this was gonna happen. That's
what's so frustrated. I'm watching and I'm watching usterday going
this is just everything that I This is the worst nightmare.
And of course all that's going through my head is
to catch Martin makes for the Reds last week, Alonzo.
It's one hundred and fifty mile an hour line drive
to let field that has caught for the final out
of an inning. It's just just tell it was coming.
(05:04):
It's like the like the baseball God said, sorry, Mets,
We're gonna wear this collapse and wear it worse than
any other team in recent memory. And that's what yesterday was.
NFL Sunday social media is owned by look at the
collapse of the Mets and the Reds, who are just
basically like the Reds only have seven guys with their team,
but look at them. They're in the playoffs, right, don't worry.
(05:25):
You better beat the Reds at two geys.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Well because that But that's the other thing is it
stares in stark contrast to what we have here. For
those unaware, we do the show from the greater Los
Angeles area. Uh, and we're surrounded by a lot of
Dodger fans and and hi, everybody listening on a five
seventy LA.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Sports Mike, what does Vegas say?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I gotta I gotta pull up the Vegas odds as
we speak. But when we look at the way this
season went for the Dodgers. It became a can you
weather the storm until your pitching gets better, whereas you
were always waiting for it to fall off. Yeah, and
then the only you know, the biggest component of once
he started pitching was all right, how many starts are left?
(06:06):
Was Clayton Kershaw and he ends up pitching to a
two five three e ern in his final Seatson.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Left off the wild card round. Look for the Mets
and the Jets, it's the same thing my teams said.
It's they wait around for something bad to happen, and
that's really what it was. But Jason and today go ahead,
well quick.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I wish you.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Weren't lying to us when you say this, but you
absolutely are, because the first three months of the season
you were actually peacocking every single segment who has the
best record in baseball? Because we did, and then we
were the best record in baseball and they were of
the worst. So there's no way you actually believed that
they were gonna tank.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
There's no way.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I didn't think they'd be I told you three months
ago they weren't gonna make the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
He thought I was crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Not the night for this Frostburg, Not the night for
this okay, not the night tomorrow night, fine, not the
night for.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
This to be.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
To be fair, I think you were just trying to
see if you can induce an aneurysm.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Hey, but I hit, but it is scared just seeing.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
How bad it wasn't it's awful. And again I'm not great, Bob,
not great, not great, butch, I'm pretty far from okay.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
The fundamentals right, like we're talking about with your jets.
It's like when it's the clean clean up the corners
that you're not doing.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
When they decided to bring Carlos Mendoza back today and
I saw that from David Searns and I just said, uh, great.
And it's not that I think it's all Carlos Mendoza's fault,
even though his pitching plans were terrible, right, that's the
one thing like his pitching plans and sticking with the
guys he's started, and it doesn't he have anybody he
can I mean, could yeah, continue to put Ryan Staneck
(07:31):
out there when he was terrible. But these are all
like things unique, unique to the Mets. But when he
Here's the thing is that sometimes a collapse is so
bad that even if the players do that are responsible
for it, and the manager that's responsible for it are
talented and are good people, you still have to move
on from them. You gotta move on because you got
(07:54):
to put this stink in the rear view mirror. And
some not every Hey, we lost a game at the end,
we missed the playoffs. But sometimes collapses are so bad,
and this collapse was so bad, right the Mets, All
what have you seen all day today? Look at the
top salaries in Major League Baseball three hundred thirty million
dollars this year. The Mets didn't make the playoffs. Sometimes
a collapse is so bad that you need to just
(08:15):
clean house and move on. And the Mets, Carlos Mendoza
should be gone. You gotta let Pete a Lonzo walk.
You got to try to trade Nimo McNeil. There needs
to be so many new players next year because this
collapse is just gonna continue to hang over the team.
And and you know Mendoza, Hey, is he a bad manager?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Could he have been done a better job this year? Yeah,
but you need to say, we have to have a
fresh start next year. And no matter what happens next year.
The first four game losing streak, should Carlos Mendoza still
be the guy and the Mets are gonna go, oh,
we're just gonna relive this over and over again. You
need to put as much distance as you can between
your team and the stink of this season. That's why
(08:55):
when they said, yeah, Mendoza's coming back, I'm like, dude,
I get it.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He's a good guys. That's but certainly they were missing
stuff and all it's gonna be is the same group
next year coming in that you're gonna say, Okay, no one,
we're gonna turn it around next year. No, you need
you need bold strokes. And there only needs to be
a handful of guys on the team from this year
because you can't trade Lindor though you got to move
in the second base, can't play short stuff anymore. Sodo's
gonna be back. Alvarez like, how many guys can you?
Speaker 7 (09:20):
Can?
Speaker 8 (09:20):
You say?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Even Diaz is saying he might opt out. Okay, you
gotta go. Then then you go, Diaz, Okay, you need
how you No, No, I can't, you can't. We've had
the best of Peter Alonzo. Can't bring him back the year.
Gotta let him go.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
We always talk about things in baseball, right, You've cited
Jason Stark telling you, hey, we always see stuff that
you've never seen in your life. So CHOEO Todi hits
his fifty fifth first guy in Major League Baseball history
to end the season with fifty five home runs. But
that Mets stat that started circulating, to me still is
just the most amazing stat of all time ohen seventy
(09:54):
when trailing after not one win, not one rally, they
had just not one m in flying in the air.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Nope, just one game. We're done with teams like this.
We're done, and they would have We're done talking. People
want to hear people, of course they want to hear about.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
More people want to hear about the Mets in the playoffs.
It's so embarrassing. I like the embarrassing story.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
So embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I bet you they don't. It's it's absolutely embarrassing.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Look at him twitch.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
But I will say this because I do want to say, listen,
I told you about the Mets in in in in April,
and what did I tell you last week? You know,
to flip this to the playoffs, What did I tell you?
Blake Snell is going to start game one for the Dodgers. No, no, no,
Yell has got no Blake Snell with I'm staying in
the game. Sorry, Dave Roberts, you you send you send
back to the bullpen. I'm staying in the game. This
(10:47):
is where Blake Snell became a Dodger and you give
them the ball in game one of the playoffs. This
is absolutely the right call. He's the right guy to
pitch game one because he's someone you want pitching as
much as possible in this series, right, however long you know, look,
obviously it's a shorter series. Okay, we get it, but
you want him going in game one. You don't want
to sit back and say, well we'll start Yamamoto in
(11:09):
game one. No, Blake Snell in game one. Who you
have the most confidence him in the playoffs? Who have
we seen before do it in the playoffs? Blake Snell,
He's absolutely the right guy to start game one. He's
just start game one of every series for the Dodgers
so we can pitch the most. He is a playoff guy, right,
He's not quite Madison Bumgarner. But if you said who
could be the next Madison Bumgarner? That's Blake Snell. He
(11:30):
is the guy they picked the right guy to start game.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Ohst season pitching twelve career games, ten starts, four and three,
record three thirty three e er A one two five whip.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Going owing back.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
To the point though, right, you talk about your mets
and their arms falling off and being unavailable. Blake Snell
eleven regular season starts for the Dodgers and got really
strong in September. Yeah, right now, because you.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Don't want him to get to get too tired to
pitch too much over the course of the season, run
out of gas in September and October, because that happens. Hey,
here's a guy who's been a veteran thirty years old, right, okay, perfect,
This is when he should be at his best. This
it should be like the normal. The normal best for
pitchers usually as they're great, is in the middle of
the season, when they get into that that big run
(12:20):
because they're throwing the ball well, they're playing well, they're
approaching every fifth day with confidence. You get to July
and August. These guys are normally terrific, but because of
the strain in their arms, they don't pitch as much
as they used to. Now September and October become I.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Don't know, but that becomes the amazing thing for this, right,
you cite all the guys getting ready to pitch for
the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
None of them have one hundred innings except for Holmimoto.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah yeah, I mean, look that you would think the
starting pitching now, they'd be able to go a little
bit deeper into games and and and not have that
bullpen because the less the dodgeraball I know Dave Roberts
has that itchy. They tell it, what, the less you
have on that bullpen, the better chance you have to win,
right because if you that bullpen is out, so they
(13:00):
are untrustworthy. There's not one person you can trust in
that bullpen, just one. You know what they left Tanner,
Scott Off. You can trust Asaki, maybe you can, but
the less than that bullpen have better off it. Yes,
the let's say, yes, I really thought Kersha would be closed.
Maybe next round he'll be on. He'll be on the thing.
(13:21):
But uh, look, if you were looking at a series
right with with all four series starts set to start tomorrow,
we got a big quadruple header in baseball. If you
said to me Hey, who's the visiting team that can
pull the upset in the first round. I actually, I
absolutely have one for you because we talk about how
how big the bullpen is. I'll take the Padres over
the Cubs in the first round series because of their bullpen,
(13:45):
because as good as it is, they they made it
stronger at the deadline. This is when it starts to
really become an issue. And if your bullpen is lacking, wow,
it becomes a real achilles heel because you get into
it every single day. And yes, some teams have strong bullpens, right,
and they get struck. But the Padres bullpen is just
(14:05):
so good, you know, they can't wait to get to
their bullpen. Right. It's one of one of the old
times when hey, this game is getting kind of short,
you know, like you would look at hey, Yankee games
or eight innings because you're getting Rivera in the ninth, right,
Like it's gonna be so difficult. You only have six
outs before you hear saying man, like you're the you're
if you're if you're playing the potters, Like we have
six innings before we get to the guys, before we
(14:25):
get to the dudes, right, six innings before we get
to the dudes. So if you're looking, if I'm looking
for the visiting team to pull the upset, give me
the Padres over the Cups.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Yeah, I'm gonna get cheeky. I can't.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
I can't pick that one because people just say, oh,
you just hate the Cubs, which may may may may
not be true. I'm gonna take the Red Sox over
the Yankees. What you get win tomorrow and sends New
York into a spiral again when you're not listening.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
No, my dad's gonna show up and hit Harmon in
the face with something like a pie.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I got this batting him and I'm gonna put back. Hey,
I'm gonna put a mask about a pie.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
If he's on your birthday next month, yeah, you're probably
the great. And then he's and hit that's what he's
gonna do, Blue, My dad will do that.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
And he was glorious.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
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on top of this blank sandwich that I had this
weekend in sports with the Mets and the Jets and Syracuse.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Was it nice?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Button Ison lean as awful as it was? Right, I
told you that this is probably the worst because of
the sheer amount of things that happened to me. Is
always sports weekend I probably had in my life. I like,
this is more than just like my fantasy team lost.
So I lost in fantasy this week in Big Lee,
(17:44):
I was undefeated and I lost by three points? Okay,
why did I lose because I had Jalen Warren in
my lineup?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
No, because living in Los Angeles, I'm not getting up
at six o'clock in the morning to check my fantasy rosters.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
You don't look get up and listen to your friend.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I listened to you. I listened to you through osmosis
and uh and I'm like, okay, well he got a
clean bill of health and I didn't have to take
him out. Who was off the injury reports. Okay, he's
in the lineup. I could have put anybody on my
bench and and I would have won. Okay, So now
I understand, right, and that's painful and is this now?
But this is where I'm at because I think about
this now because when Roger Goodell said last week the
(18:23):
NFL is looking to add one international game a week,
like that's eventually where the NFL is gonna go one
international game a week. That's where I will stop doing
fantasy because I'm not gonna sit here and wake up
and worry about waking up at six o'clock in the
morning every week in case I have somebody who is
in or out. Oh boy, he's really good, so I
have to put in my lineup if he plays, but
(18:43):
I'm not sure if he's gonna play, And you never
know if all of a sudden during warm ups when
you're flying overseas, you don't know how things are gonna
go have the long plane ride is gonna be gon
depression socks. You have no idea how things are gonna be.
So that that's what I will stop because I'm like,
you know what, I'm not doing it. I'm not up
at six o'clock in the morning to change my lineup.
I'm not doing it. So that if that happens, I
(19:04):
will stop doing fantasy because it's not it's not worth it.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
The bridge to far hire a consultant. You think people
would do that, I would.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Hire people to manage your fantasy team.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Well, but I mean just for those instances you're on
like like you wake up the managers. You're my international
game manager officially. You make sure that I don't get
screwed by a late scratch.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
If I get screwed, it's and it's not any other
game other than the game at six six thirty in
the morning on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Well, or one of these situations like tonight, a lot
of people were pissed because they weren't They didn't realize
the Dolphins and Jets were kicking off early. Yeah, it's
because of your usual Monday night schedule. What you got
justin You know who cares about your fantasy team?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Who's that Frostburg?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Absolutely nobody.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
It's a bigger point about how you're gonna have to
manage your team way more intensely. Are you really do it?
They get up that you're gonna geup at six o'clock
in the mo I mean, don't complain about you're gonna
see West Coast fantasy participation. Yes, people are gonna be
like me, comes down, I'm not doing it. You care
or you don't not doing it?
Speaker 5 (20:10):
It's like you don't like it, don't watch it's the
same thing. And if it comes down to the margins
and that's it, it's just like an NFL game.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Maybebe I'm a little bit more upset about losing this
week than I say. I'm fine this week, but in
the future. Well, let me put it this way. Who'd
you lose to? I lost to Scott Porter Friday Night Lights.
He beat me. I'm like, being by two points? Did
you start Presaul? No? I did not start Presaul. Everything
else is fine, everything else is fine. I lot to that.
I'm like, come on, man, two points two points?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Sorry, Yeah, that happens. It's tough, man. I mean, that's
a tough end.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
It was a terrible week, and I think I think
it's really just the amalgamation the Yeah. Oh, it's agent
of all of these factors in the universe this week.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And I got to.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Eat well at least.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Uh sure.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Oh, I'm asking did you have any standout? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
I just stand out walk with theoi.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I'm trying to get batulism this week for something.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
That's what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Everything is bad this last three days, dude, I'm telling you. Man,
Syracuse on Saturday, the Mets yesterday, the Jets tonight. I mean,
come on, man, this is sports, this is sports.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Terror. You know who feels bad for you?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It's nobody bad man. It's bad things, man, bad things,
bad things, man bad just really well.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
They always say things come in threes. That would be
that would be it, right?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I mean, I honestly death of three seasons. I'm really
coming around to the fact that when, okay, when I
retire from doing sports, I'm gonna I'm gonna move to
a cabin.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
What do you mean from doing sports?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
You're just not gonna do sports, you know, when I retire,
like when I retire, Like, what does that mean?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You're still not gonna do sports.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
When I retire, Well, retire means you're not working anymore.
So when I retire, but you're still gonna do sports.
I don't know it is Patrick, he does sports. You
can't get away from.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
This, dude.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I really think I'm gonna make it out of this.
I'm gonna go too far in cabin in the woods.
The only people that know where I am are Pam
and Zoe that clicksand is knee high. No, no smartphones done.
I always thought we'd have more quicksand right. No, no,
no smartphones. I'll still have cable because I or streaming services.
You don't need a smartphone.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
It's the Mets.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
No no, no, no, no, but no no, but no
one to tell me about what's happening. I don't need
to I don't need to know. I don't need to
keep up on stuff. And I'm gonna live by myself,
off the grid, and it's I mean, it's gonna be
like some fun shit in twenty years is gonna go. Man,
I listen to the guy. He was such a big
sports fan and now nobody knows what happened to him.
The guy's disappear. It's like Eddie and the Cruise. He's
gonna be that guy, even more so at.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
And just at the bar.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Tell him you and the kid's gonna find me and
he's gonna he's gonna be like twenty five years old.
Day I went to George Washington and I'm doing my
senior thesis on you. And it's a movie and all
of a sudden, like you know, like Jesse Eisenberg would
play me, and then you know, because it's in twenty
years now or whatever it's gonna be. And then the
kid would be like zac Efron's kid, and like he
would come to me and he would say, are you
Jason Smith? And I'd have the big long beard. I
(23:03):
wouldn't have a beer because I can't stand it, but
I would just have whatever. And I'd be dressed like
really weird, like I'd look like a Sasquatch. And he
would say are you Jason Smith? And I would just
kind of grunt at him, and he would hand a
like like Ray when when she gives Luke the lightsaber
on Achitoe and she hands out the lightsaber to Luke,
he would like hand be a Mets hat and I
would I would reach out and take it and throw
it in the river, and and I would just do
(23:25):
and walk away and be like, wait, I wanted to
interview you about your life and why you live up
here in the woods. Mets the Jets. That's why I
live in the woods. Go back and take that to
your editor, editor. What's an editor? Okay? I didn't even
know what's going on in the world anymore because I'm
up in here in the woods the whole time.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
So two things.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
One, I was gonna take it down a different cinematic
jag once she said, Efron.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Don't you want to get away.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
From started singing all the songs from the Greatest Showman. Dude, dude,
either that or something from high school musical telling you
about that sounds like a great post sports life, Like, I'm.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Just what did we get you?
Speaker 5 (23:58):
A deal with a place that makes cheap burner phones,
So every time you get an update on a Metz
or jet you hate, you could just chuck it and
it's only like an eight dollars and come out.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I would get a phone where I couldn't even get texts.
I would not even get that, like you know what,
I'd want phones like the guys in Task have, Like
the bad guys in Task have these like flip phones
that have just rudimentary text and like remember you your
first phone to text, you had to like press the
number like you wanted to type the letter C. You
had to press the button with ABC on the three times.
Like those are the phones they have, Like that's the
(24:29):
kind of phone. Had one of those old two way
pagers for work.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I hated that.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
That's kind of phone that Now we're talking like this,
I just gonna go like this time we talk like
people from Task it's how it is. Now, We're We're
done in the woods. I'm not even around anymore. I'm
like that bad that bad movie, I'm shamlain movie. They
were all in the woods and it was like they
made up this whole thing and they weren't. Weren't there
for Addie real reason that they know they wanted to
leave society. I kind of understand that.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Now, no Bautista's hanging out with you, I'd be in
the wood.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
I'm gonna be in the woods and know Pam and
Zoe the only ones, and that's it.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Can I play the Afghan wigs that lost in the
woods and there.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
With your TV and your VCR twenty years met his videotapes.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Trying to start a fire? What do you do?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I watched the nineteen eighty six baseball season over and
over and over and over and over.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
The Mets.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Uh no, either that or I like or I like
my other idea that I'm going to find sports because
the Mets and the Jets is no sports life. It's
no way to live, right, It's no way to live sports.
Like I would find sports that I don't really pay
that much of attention to, and I would suddenly be
(25:36):
rabbit about it, and I would pick I said, real sports,
come on, man to some places.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
That is a berbone that listed that as his favorite
hobby once upon a time on the back of the
baseball card.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
That's a real sport, pinch hitting for pedro Borbone. And
I would pick these sports that no one that that
I would don't even follow, and all of a sudden,
I'd be rabbit about it, and I would and I
would pick the best in the sports. And that's who
I would be. That's why I would root for it.
If a couple of years they weren't good anymore, I'd
pick a new team, be rab because I would root
for the best. I'm done. I could have again. I
(26:11):
could have picked the Yankees and the Giants, and I'd
have a great life, even Giants fans that know you're
laughing the Jets going, ah, we're just as bad as you.
We got a quarterback. It's you guys, just terrible.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Man.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
You guys can't even have a game where you commit
single digit penalties, Like that's how bad you are. Like,
I could have picked the Yankees and the Giants had
a great sports life, but I didn't, so I'd go
out and I'd watch like Champions League, Soccer, Formula one,
maybe just all the sports in Europe that are popular
that you know, and you would be a curling monster.
I would be Oh, curling, definitely. I would definitely be
(26:40):
watching curling. Who's the best curling teams? If there's professional curling.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Maybe I got a club you could go to in Schenectady.
Maybe go visit my daughter at college next year. You
come with and I know the place.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Oh well, well, because I actually took the bus through
Schenectady a lot when I would like if you said
Schenectady in was where we were at? Yeah, I just
had this image of my to the bus driver saying,
Schenectady s connected. The next stop, Syracuse Schnectady the next op.
So that's a train stop in Brooklyn, right, Schenectady, Schnectady,
It's connectedy. I would. I would pick a lot of
levels of soccer in Europe because there's like seventeen different
(27:13):
levels of teams. I would pick, and I would, I would,
I would. I would move someplace maybe where like I
know a really good team in a lower division is
so I know that every year things are gonna be Okay,
now I'm doing. I would follow teams in sports that
I don't even care about, but I would just go
crazy for them, like they're the Mets and the Jets,
I would say, And I can never be disappointed because again,
if two years you're not good, I'm going to the
(27:34):
best team and I'm gonna suddenly leave you and go
for the best team. And that's it. Sell all my
gear that I bought off of eBay from that team
and buy a bunch of new gear for the other team.
And that's what I would do.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
All right.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
We got a suggestion off Twitter. John comes in with
you can start following Liverpool nothing else you get around
sinking Beatles songs? Sure, okay, and then start watching rugby
and put on a spring box shirt.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Oh, Australian rules football. I would definitely watch Australia.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Well, would you want to follow a team or would
you cheer for the guys that point and where the
snazzy Whites?
Speaker 4 (28:04):
I could.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I could cheer for those guys. Anytime i'd pick a team,
I'd pick it to the Australians football hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Yeah. Now suddenly I'm feeling I mean, I'm feeling people
got to go see a Gaelic football game.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
When we went over for the Taylor Swift Show last year,
I could get on more of that like that was
that was a raucous crowd and the beer was flowing.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
It was great.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, No more football, no more baseball, no more basketball,
no way yet. But but all these other sports, yeah
I could ah yeah yeah, maybe I'll do that instead.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Kind of dig this. Yeah yeah, yea yah yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Maybe you could start showing up at some of these
gaming conventions, although I would miss stuff like like Craft
and all that. Oh because I play my play all right,
people make money off the stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, yeah, you can do that.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Maybe that's maybe that's where you start doing. You have
your own Twitch channel.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Video game, Yes, I get into video games. That's what
I would. I get into video games. I would root
you a socket video games. No no, but I would know
and I would watch, Oh yeah, what I would video
game where you No, no, no, no, I wouldn't play. I
would watch the best gamers and root for the best gamers.
That's what I would do. That's not a sport, sure
it is, yeah, no sport sport you watch? Yeah, you watch?
(29:13):
Oh you know what I would also do. I would
I would get one of those people because I can't
believe you can make money at this, but I would
get like one of those people that that teaches kids
how to play video games. Well like that's a big yeah.
No no, no, like there's people that are that are
kids brains are like sponges, they know how to play
video games. No, no, there's like Fortnite teachers. I know, I
(29:33):
know parents who have hired people to teach their kids Fortnite.
Like that's a that's a thing, Like I would do that, Hey,
come teach me Fortnite because I want to go like that.
Well this people that it's actually not that. It's just
not that expensive. That's not that expensive. I mean it
so not like like you're making millions of dollars like this.
It's big niche industry that people. You know, all of
(29:53):
a sudden, I'm making all this catch on it. No,
you make some money on it, but it's not it's
not something crazy. I would do it. Oh something like
I just I got this whole new world open to me,
my car and it doesn't have the mets of the
jets in it. See what we did right there. That's
a world. Right there, that's a world. We have changed
your world to you. You're now all positive. Now, I
still might want to live in the woods though the
woods might be a thing. I might try the woods
(30:14):
first and then if that doesn't work, come back out.
I might try that first. Okay, But speaking of the
eighty six Mets, tell her to find out what's trending
in the wide well the sports from a man who
tonight brought me a DVD of the eighty six Mets
because he bought it wherever he was this weekend. That's
a true story.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
It's Steve Disager.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
We were in the woods, actually, were you really? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
The DVD store pretty popular in the woods.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
Yeah, as you say, they probably just got that in.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yeah, physical media still lives. Let's go.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
If I knew you had a VHN still working, you know, man,
I could have got you some other stuff too.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Hey whoa heyday, Disager eighty seven? We got Cardinals twins
coming up?
Speaker 5 (30:57):
How many eighties wrestling tapes because we can use.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Uh no, did not.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
And if you want to get into a tournament during
the year, you know, there is such a thing as
the US Open Cup with soccer, which crowns the absolute
best soccer team in this country, and it's.
Speaker 8 (31:13):
Open to everybody.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Minor league teams are playing against Messi and Miami, the
New York Renegades against some MLS team, Ventura County against whatever,
and then followed the different rounds. You could put up
a big bracket and keep filling it in on your wall.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
I like that, and you can play renegade in the background.
Let's renegade, as finally found.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
They did play that.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
By the way, over the weekend with the Steeler victory,
we had two NFL games tonight. Unfortunately one had the
Bengals and the other had the Jets, but we did
have two NFL games tonight.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
If you put both of these games together, they would
still not even be one average NFL game.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Because, in fact, the Jets have started the season zero
and four for a third time in the last seven seasons.
They got close, but lost twenty seven to twenty one
at Miami Jets with three fumbles thirteen penalties. Jets quarterback
Justin Fields did start. He's out of concussion protocol. He
had seven carries eighty one yards, an impressive touchdown run,
(32:13):
had a TD pass. Jets running back Braylan Allen fumbled
at the one later left on a kickoff return injury
to the knee. Nick Folk of the Jets field goals
of fifty and fifty eight yards, but the Dolphins led
seventeen to three early third quarter Cincinnati's two and two,
and kind of lucky at that because remember they beat
Joe Flacco seventeen to sixteen in the season opener. Denver
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beat up Cincinnati tonight twenty eight to three. The final
bow knicks three total touchdowns, one interception, three hundred and
twenty six yards passing. The Bengals on the first drive
kicked a short field goal after that, nine drives five
first downs under one hundred yards of offense. Meanwhile, JK.
Dobbins of the Broncos sixteen carries one hundred one yards rushing.
(32:55):
So the Bengals so far three of their first four
games they've been under two hundred yards of offense. That
hasn't happened to start a season since the two thousand
and nine Raiders. And a great item from stad Zinc
on how bad the Bengals have been these last two games.
The bad losses at Minnesota and at Denver. These last
two games each of them, the Bengals had lost by
(33:15):
at least twenty five points, had under two hundred total
yards in each under sixty rushing yards, been out rushed
by at least one hundred yards in each game. They've
taken at least three sacks in each game. No other
NFL team in the Super Bowl era has done that
in back to back games.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
And until these Bengals, right, you know what, Steve, they
would absolutely beat the Jets.
Speaker 8 (33:37):
Who kind of like to see that?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Actually, dude, Jets Cowboys next week is yeah, let's go,
must see television.
Speaker 8 (33:43):
Man, I don't know Jets for points.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
I mean, remember the Cowboys a couple weeks ago had
that high scoring almost the same score in the overtime
against the General.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Over under forty six and a half. Let's go, Cowboys
will find a way to three. Jets only score three
points against the Cowboys.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
If we do have baseball items, as Texas Rangers manager
Bruce Bochi will not return, The Minnesota Twins fired manager
Roco ball Deli, the Giants fired manager Bob Melvin, who
back in July had his contract option picked up by
San Francisco for next year. And now the Buster Posey
the former catcher who runs the team has fired former
catcher Bob Melvin as manager.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
The Mets Carlos Mendoza, Will.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Richards clearly only have a one catcher limit.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
Front office something of the roster, the non player roster.
The Pirates gave inner manager Don Kelly the job full time.
The Dodgers will start pitcher Blake Snell and tomorrow night's
playoff opener against the Reds and pitcher Hunter Green at LA.
Native Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start Wednesday nights Game two for
LA and pitcher Roki.
Speaker 8 (34:43):
Sasakia the Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
He is on the roster this week, and Dodger catcher
Will Smith took batting practice tonight.
Speaker 8 (34:49):
Trying to return from a broken hand.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Third baseman Max Mounsey of LA says he's back this
week after a bruce leg and other injuries.
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(35:17):
of the NFL. It's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific. Jason, what do.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
You got Frostburg? The song was number one the last
time the Mets in the Jason Smith Mike Harmon live
from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
He's enjoying your misery a little too much. Oh wow,
you know, I hate to.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
Say, I told yourself, brew Baker, Shoemaker. Won't you shine
my shoes for free maker? Okay, we get back into
Monday Night football coming up in a few minutes, and
that absolute abysmal effort by the Jets, but shrugging the
(36:10):
controversy that's become a huge story today, especially that I
really think is just stupid. Is this whole Robert Slimb
Cohen thing?
Speaker 6 (36:19):
Right?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
So they get into it after the game yesterday Jaguars
beat the forty nine ers, and the DC of the
forty nine ers very upset and it looked like and
he and Cohen had to be restrained from each other
after the game. Now, what's the backdrop to this? Salah
went overboard the week before saying that, hey, we have
(36:42):
to watch what they do because the Jaguars do a
great job of legally stealing signs, legally stealing the signs
that we send in from the sideline and using them,
and again said they're not doing anything illegal. It's not illegal.
They do a great jet because everybody looks to see
if they can steal signs and.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
See what's going on. Ye tendencies, little little ticks. Yeah, absolutely,
he went on.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
He went on to say that, yeah, uh, they do
a great job of legally stealing signs. So the game happens,
forty nine ers lose and sol and Cohen get into
it have to be separated midfield.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Keep your name out out your mouth.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
This is so stupid, because what's the what's the problem,
Robert Salah? If they're legally getting your signals? What the
hell are you so mad? He just met that you
lost stand why you so mad? I do want you
as a defensive coordinator, Like, why are you so mad?
Did they do something illegally during the game? Okay, we
need to know that, right, But here's why I know
it's a load of crap because Kyle Shanahan, who you
(37:40):
would think would come to the defense of his DC
and would say, hey, Roberts mad, this this is I
got his back. He just said, yeah, these guys talking
about everything's fine.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
Well then and then like four times like where we're
done keeping at in the house, We're done with And I.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Was like, wait a minute, how do you not this
is very public that this happened. Everybody got to see this.
You're not saying, hey, I got Roberts back on this.
He was upset. We'll talk about this, we'll figure it
out for next time, X, Y and Z. But instead
it's just, yeah, not a big deal. Not a big
deal like Sala's out on an island with whatever is
going on right now, which is a really weird thing.
And I don't know that that's the message I would
send because he's your DC and this is a thing
(38:17):
that happened that clearly he was pissed off. You cut
that guy loose, like, but this tells me that this
is stupid, because this is this solid just something fighting
some kind of battle that's not really out there. Because again,
if you're upset that someone's legally doing something. How do
you lose it? Then at the end you's upset just
because you're mad.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
And again the head coach would have his DC's back
no matter what right or wrong. Hey, I got your back.
It's like hey, if if you're significant other, if your
wife or husband gets in argument with somebody, even if
they're wrong, as a wife or husband, you have their
back because that's who you know. You're with them, right,
I got your back even if you're We can talk
about it after behind closed doors, but publicly, I'm going
(38:57):
to have your back. This is publicly chad it. Yeah no,
no that I don't care not talking about it, not
not doing it. Whoa dude, this is your DC where
something happened like this is this is this is a
controversy that's just stupid because I don't know why it is.
But yet the forty nine ers inflamed it and by
making it worse than it is. Because now the head
coach is saying, yeah, this is now, this is now done.
(39:19):
We're not talking about this anymore.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Yeah, it just becomes the all right, what are we
trying to get at? And this becomes does the league
office decide, well, you know what, this was enough that
we have to look at it, or like other things
that they just lift the end of the carpet and
try to brush it underneath. Was watching an episode of
the House of Guinness. Spoiler alert. They move a rug
over an ink stain and one of the guys is mad.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
They drink a lot of beer.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
What's about Guinness?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Okay, that's making sure.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
So that's a lot about beer.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
That's whole thing. Yeah, you know my dad likes to
say about Guinness. Yeah, roast beef in a glass kind
of yeah, But.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
I mean, look a big fan of heading to the
whole land of Ireland and all, and yes it is
roast beef in a glass, but listening history of it
all and going and reading about it and then having
this series come up when you've got people from the
Peaky Blinders attached, I'm in got it a big deal.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
This is one of those Week four NFL things that
really solid should know better, But the Niners find a
way to not deal with this thing. I mean, like,
I've watched the Niners and I go everything just seems
really tenuous with them right now, whether it's block brought
(40:31):
party's health or whatever is going on with the coaches,
and I look at it, go Do I really believe
in them? But they always think they're that good. Do
I really think they're Hey, we're back to being the
team he was before everybody got hurt last year, or
do I think they're really skating on thin ice?
Speaker 5 (40:44):
Well, they still still have a whole issue to account for.
We had Baltimore and the Chargers for years with their
training staffs. I mean, certainly up in San Francisco. They've
continued to have injury after injury in question attached to
them in the Shanahan era. So yeah, I still have
those questions. But it's like when the Patriots, you'd have
the isolated team would call something out Indianapolis or Baltimore
(41:08):
like nobody else, jumped up and down until they were
all retired or fired.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
Then all of a sudden he came back. Oh yeah,
you know, we.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
Used to have guys go through and sweep like where
was this ten years ago?
Speaker 1 (41:20):
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