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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yes, all right, ty Shirt, it's a great open. It's fun.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
But people think I picked the Jets for the Super
Bowl this year because of that, and I did it.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I did not.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I said maybe five hundred and we can play fun
games in December. I did that two years ago, two.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Years ago when we got out what's the time stamp
on that tenth though?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I did, yeah, when they were zero and four, making
my Week four Super Bowl prediction. No, you were looking
to be ahead of the curve. I did not, well,
way ahead. Yeah. Well, Actually, what I do like is
when they do is it Grock or AI that does
the uh hey, we we played out all the Super
Bowl winners for the next hundred years? Yeah, Rock, And
I always look for the Jets where the Jets, oh
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twenty thirty nine. Okay, all right, another fourteen years from now. Okay,
that's gonna win the super Bowlkay. We got one of
the next hundred years.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
That means we're halfway through our run here at Fox
Sports Radio. Because you said after that you'll just roll over.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Well, it's Bob, we get to the last Bobby Benia
day in twenty thirty five.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
You don't want to get four more years, four more years, Bobby,
but go on a big tour. Start showing up all
sorts of places.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Bobby bo Bobby boom, uh, Thursday Night Football, Yes, old
guys rule.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I in fact, I'm already thinking the shows tomorrow that
are gonna do the Hey, your favorite old athletes over
the age of forty, phone number, Give out the phone
number and take phone calls. Who are your favorite over
forty athletes?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Right? You know that?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well they might have done part one today.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I already think of some of the shows are gonna
do that to my I already known I can already.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
The old guys.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
But it is gonna be a big day for old
guys tomorrow because we had three guys in their forties
with big nights and night Joe Flacco, Aaron Rodgers, and
Max Schurzer. Now, I picked the Steelers to win this game. However,
I am okay with them losing because my larger point
that they stink is what's out there now. Because the
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Steelers stink, I told you they stink, They're not They
don't do anything really well. Right now, Rogers threw the
ball well tonight. You through throwball well tonight. Jalen Warren
did run the ball well tonight. I was a very
encouraging Briarmouth caught some pass he had the back in hell.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Not quite the night for DK Metcalf.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Which Alex Tyshert Welcome to the world of cursing athletes
because Tyshirt gave us his big preaching last night. As
you know last week he said Giants are gonna win
Thursdaynight Football by fourteen points. I was like, you're crazy,
and he turned out to be right. So he let
ty Shirt pick the game last night, and he said
Dk Metcalf three touchdowns. DK Metcalf had his worst game
of the year. What fifty yards receiving and a big
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fumble at the end of the first half that gave
the Bengals a field goal. So now Alex Tyshert understands
what happens when you curse the other team because you
picked that big night for Metcalf and he was terrible tonight. Congratulations,
it's on you.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
I will own it. I also wear it proudly because
I should have been right.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Wait.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Oh, okay, okay, I see that's how you're gonna do it. Okay, No,
all right, I should have been right. Yeah, but you
were wrong.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
No, I was wrong. I should have been right.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
They checked Aaron Rodgers. They wore uniforms that looked like
the yardage, you know what I'm saying. They didn't know
where to throw it. I didn't see all these guys
in the white uniforms. They were so low to the
ground with all the snow on the ground, I couldn't
tell where they were. They would just run back up
and try to grab the football. I didn't see it
blank spaces. So it was a good night for the
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Steelers moving the football tonight. But look, but the Bengals
are terrible. The Bengals defense is awful. No hendrickson tonight.
They had no pass rush on Aaron Rodgers and they
still lost the game. The Steelers aren't a great football team.
They're not even a good football team. They're a team
that's gonna wind up winning this division with an OK
record because everybody else is struggling. Now, clearly the Bengals tonight. Right,
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we'll get to Flacco in a couple of minutes, but
clearly this is a Steelers team that, Yeah, every year
there's the one team that's really weak and winds up
winning a division because the win division is bad and
they go play in their first playoff game, they get
boat raced and go home.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
That's the Steelers. That is absolutely the Steelers. Because the
Steelers stink, they're not good again, they don't. The defense
this is clearly not your steel curtain of two years ago,
three years ago, ten years ago. I mean, this defense
is getting worked the entire season. You opened up by
letting the Jets put like fu five hundred yards of
offense on you. The Jets, man, they had minus ten
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yards passing last week against the Broncos, who also are
a good defense, but they're actually really good.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So I mean the Steelers. You don't.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
The defense is terrible, and offensively, nobody really scares you.
But it's just the Bengals defense is terrible. So, okay,
you're not good. You're not a good team. It's it's
okay to admit that every ever, Like I said, one
team every year, they're not that good, but they win
the division because the rest of it stinks.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
That's the Steelers. They came into the game giving up
what twenty three points a game ish, which was bottom teams. Okay, fine,
pass rush had been better the last couple of weeks.
Joe Flacco will get more into him in a minute,
but get rid.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Of everything's middle of the field, undil of the road
with them, it's not like middle road there they stayed.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But here's the beauty of it, right, it's a long season.
It's a long season. They're starting to get healthy. Friarmouth
had been a bit banged up. He looked ice and
healthy as he sprinted to daylight on that sixty eight yarder.
Warrened missed the game while he had the best game
of his season and look good and spry. Gain well
not much of a role here, sorry, folks on those
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daily fantasy plays, but the fact that you got the
tight ends involved metcap while he only had three for fifty.
Would love to see his usage up. Would love to
see another wide receiver be up and available. Austin missed
this one. But you're you're looking at the activity towards
the deadline. Can they go find another wide receiver, you
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know what, unlike that guy that they got rid of
who's really excelling as the number two now and Dallas
with Ceenee lamback. Yeah, but all of that to say,
Aaron Rodgers looked good. Yeah, look again, I mean he
looked fantastic. Get the Jets and look and look how
you're good you are?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I mean, look, obviously he wasn't under any sort of
dressed right, you take it with a grain of salt.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, no question about it.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
No hendrickson pass rush the guy they drafted in the
first round and was I think they said his name once.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
From late in the game there is I'm a big
proponent of if the announcers don't say your name a lot,
you're not having a great game. I'm a big proponent,
especially when you're a first first round pick that you
held out, you did a lot of stuff. They were
banking out him now like they were clocking Aaron Rodgers
at his time of release.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
In the first half. There were multiple times that was
over eight seconds. He danced left, he danced right, He
looked downfield, he checked out, he looked again. All that
kind of craziness to it. I just wonder if if
they don't actually have a lot better football ahead of them,
will they be great? No, I don't think there's a
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lot of great. I don't think there's great really in
a lot of these teams. I mean, we might have
one or two teams that separate eventually will right now
they're question marks, right.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
But they can become great. The Steelers stink, There's no question.
They're in the media of the curve. Yeah, it doesn't
matter that right there with the Bengals that stinks.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Do you angles are three and four? You do you
want to know, Joe Flagger?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You want a great meaty burger that that has great
sirloin and has done well? Or do you want a
middle of the road burger? No, you'd say the middle
of the road burger stinks.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You want since my price differential when most places is
gonna be minimal, give me thet.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I'm just saying the burger, the taste of one burger
versus the taste of another burger. If you got the
middle of the road burger versus the taste of a
really good burger. That middle of road burger stinks.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
How appropriate that that analogy, because I made tasty burgers
today for the girls. Ah, there were some damn fine burgers.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Now the flip side of it again, I am from
the future because I told you right away Joe Flacco
was gonna show up and this Bengals offense was gonna
suddenly come to life.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, you got this one better than that stupid wizard
caught that Guerrero home runner. Yeah, he didn't catch the
wizard didn't catch terrible left ward.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Awful.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
You're gonna dress up like that. It's like wearing the
sixty one shirt for hey, dump it here and then
dropping the ball?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Wait, come on, always talking dropping the base ball. I
told you Flacco was gonna have a great and immediate
impact on the Bengals, whose offense was awful under Jake Browning. Right,
what three points of the first three quarters of the
last three games they had to make a.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Move they do drove the ball down the field. He
turned the ball over just at a ridiculous rate.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, and I get that. Okay, you need a week
for Flacco. Still it wasn't awful against the Packers. Watching
this game, I could tell, Okay, it's gonna happen. I
didn't think it would happen quite like this to the
tune of over three hundred yards and three touchdowns and
Jamar Chase nearly broke Brandon Marshall's record for receptions in
a game because he had sixteen. But I knew this
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system for Flacco getting the ball to his playmakers. These
guys are all terrific. Right again, we talked about in
the first hour of the show, Jamar Chase and Ti
Higgins might be the best one two combo in all
of the NFL. Now ceedeelamb and George Pickens might get
the run Josh Redd and Arian Smith maybe, but anyway, uh,
but they're both really good. And Chase Brown has shown
(10:06):
you I'm pretty good. Now he has been awful and
averaging two and a half yards of carry. And what
happened tonight again Jamar Chase record setting night right t
three targets Man T Higgins a big night when you realize, Okay,
if one guy is catching sixteen passes, you're not going
to catch twelve, but six the big one at the end,
setting up the game rights, Chase Brown runs for one
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hundred yards, right, Like, this is exactly what I thought,
because this is a system for Flacco, right, being able
to throw that deep ball, being able to if I
thought Wilson in the moon ball was pretty good, but
Flacco being able to extend the field and as smart
as he is, he's going to take advantage of these
playmakers because with the Browns, the Browns playmakers are bad. Right,
they put him in a position to fail when they
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start this season. Okay, we got a couple of rookie
running backs and maybe the receivers. Look we're looking at
Arch Manning or whoever else we're taking next year. We're
completely punting on this year. We got Dylan Gabriel and
Chador s. He wasn't in a position to succeed, but
he's in one now with the Bengals. And like we say,
usually it's the younger quarterbacks that find out. Whether it's
Baker Mayfield have found his way a little bit before
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he was thirty years old. Sam Darnold in his late
twenties has found his way. Gino Smith took him till
he was thirty years old. There's a system for everyone.
And the fact that you have seen Flacco play as
well as he has throughout his career. The Bengals knew
this is our guy. This is our guy because he's
gonna come in and do what we do well. And
also it's going to be where the end of the year,
when Joe Burrow comes back, Flaco's gonna say thank you,
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tip his cap. Understand, but know that I still have
more time to play in the NFL because I'm still
really good. I can still do it in the right
system right, so many quick there's a system for everyone.
It's just weird to see it with a forty year
old quarterback because usually those guys are you get to
that point, you do what you can do, stay, you
do what you don't. Get out of your comfort zone
a lot. You really have to say, all right, I
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want this guy to work here. And when Aaron Rodgers
tried to do that with the Jets, it didn't work right.
The offensive system was terrible. Let's a guy like Devonte
Adams in and didn't work out that great. All of
a sudden, Garrett Wilson wasn't catching passes and the team
didn't win. But Angard Rodger with the Steelers. I have
the one guy I gotta go to. It's DK Metcalf
and that's it. Okay, am I tightened. I can use.
We can run the ball. Can get the ball to
Jalen Warren out of the backfield. It works for Joe
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Flacco the same thing. I can get the ball deep
downfield of Jamar Chase. I get it in between the
Jamar Chase. I get it to t Higgins because I
could get my reads in. Chase Brown can get Now
all of a sudden, you can't just just box the
line of scrimmage. Chase Brown has room to run. Joe Flacco.
It's weird in his forties, but yes, he's one of
those guys. He's adapted to other schemes and here he
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is a system for everybody.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Oh, we're talking about the Wilson moon ball. But Flacco
has that aptitude but also can drive the ball deep
and intermediate routes. And we watched it with Jamar Chase,
We talked about it with Jay Glazer. Just being able
to get that timing synced up just that fast. And
credit to the offensive line of the Bengals. They did
a great job holding back the Pittsburgh pass rush, but
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also for Flacco and recognizing that the guys cut off
their routs and they went short and found some yak
along the way and that ends up getting them to
the winner circle. What that means long term, no, no,
but it was fun to see all three of those
weapons deployed with big days for fantasy owners. And you
know me, old guys, the longer they succeed, the younger
(13:21):
I feel.
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Speaker 3 (14:01):
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the Pope, John Paul Morosi. What's happening, buddy?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I'm doing outstanding, my friends. Greetings from the great city
of Seattle. For the second time this week, I am
now at T Mobile Park, where I can report to
you exclusively that this American League Championship Series remains not over.
It remains not over. In fact, it is the opposite
of over. We are level at two games a piece.
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It is a whole new series.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
My friends, Well, and I have a feeling I would
like the Blue Jays to win the series. If you
could guarantee me that what he's been doing so far
that Junior is going to hit a home run in
every game. I feel good about the Blue Jays if
that's going to continue to happen.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, their record when he hits the ball approximately five
hundred feet, which is what he did today to the
opposite field. No less, and maybe it wasn't five hundred,
but you get the idea.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Was that you dresses the Wizard?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
No, John Paul, was that you dressed the wizard? Do
you put your glove out and didn't catch it?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I think that was no.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I was actually watching that from the press box. Oh no,
I have a very solid alibi. I was in the
press box, not there, I can. I have multiple witnesses
attesting to my presence there. He of course. And I
interviewed Blatty after the game on MLB Network and he
said that it really it meant a lot to him
that he has now passed Jose Baltisa for the most
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home runs in a single postseason in Blue Jay's history.
His countrymen, of course, in the from the Dominican Republic.
So he's uh, he's going to the Hall of Fame
in all likelihood. Vladimir Gerrow Junior and and the Jays
are now where they are because of another certainly certain
Hall of Famer, in the case of Max Scherzer, with
what he has done, and that was a performance for
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the ages we've had. Basically everybody I asked was, hey,
what did you what executive did you hear Max Versus
say to John Schneider on the mountain? And what did
you say? And I believe the the the translation on
the on the readout as it were, it would be
kind sir, I request to remain in his baseball game,
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or I have intent on finishing this inning, something like that,
I think was was what the exact John Boy translation was.
But Max Scherzer, he showed and vladi X said this
to me. He said, that's why he's going to the
Hall of Fame, and it was there's probably no better
summation than that. And Max talked afterward about this sacrifices
that go into it. Certainly as a forty one year
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olds he's someone that has won a game in the
ALC a SID forty one years of age. First want
to do that Kenny Rogers back in two thousand and six,
and you do it with sacrifices. He's a father of four,
He and his wife Erica. It's not easy to spend
this amount of time away from home and to keep
chasing moments like this and being able to enjoy moments
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like this as a competitor, which Max is pau excellon.
So just a special knight for him. And he actually
said I asked him after the game, I said, Mac,
did you appreciate these moments in a different way than
you did fourteen years ago your first postseason start, which
was against Jeter and a Rod and those Yankees? And
he said, no, actually they're all the same, that they
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all mean something special to me. So it was kind
of an interesting answer and someone that I think we all,
with the possible exception of Mariner fans, tonight, we also
feel fortunate to have a chance to one of the
best to ever do it in Max Chersey.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
You know before you hit to the Dodgers John Paul
last on this game is that you know you talked
about Scherzer when John Schneider tried to take him out.
He said, no, I'm staying in it. It's kind of
fun to watch, but I know this is gonna end
disastrously for a team when a manager leaves a guy
in and it's a three run homer instead of a strikeout,
and suddenly the manager's gonna be mad, the players are
gonna be mad, like this is gonna end in heartache,
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and and really just in a bad way for managers
in general.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I know how it's gonna go.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Right, no, And I think that's the interesting point. And
we've all seen moments like this in different baseball games,
and John Schneider said simply, I trusted the person. I
trusted Max, And I thought that was a really good
way for him to describe it, that he, at the
end of the day, whatever was on a spreadsheet, whatever
was whatever was said before the game about Okay, if
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this pocket of the lineup comes up in the fifth
inning and then Max is on the map, we're gonna
get him out of there because we want to have
someone else come in. I just think it was a
a really special way for a manager to describe it,
that whatever the sort of objective planning looked like, that
the heartbeat of the game told him something different. And
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I just think that was a really extraordinary way for
John to describe what happened in his decision to keep
Max in the game and give Max a chance at
a postseason win, which is something he wasn't able to do.
Max's team won the World Series in twenty three, but
he didn't get a World Series win in twenty twenty three.
So I think that from that perspective that this was
a deeply meaningful personal accolade. In addition to I'm sure
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and obviously Max is mind first and foremost was getting
the win for the Toronto Blue Jays and evening this.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Series flipping the other series JP ashby third appearance for
the Brewers that ends poorly as shoe Otani gets the head,
Bets follows up down one nothing and then Misowski comes in.
You know, we're first guessing from the chairs something Pat
Murphy might regret not just going with the young straight
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out of the gate.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Well, miss miss was really good tonight, and watching his
stuff I was able to keep an eye on it
before our game began here in Seattle. Just absolute dominant
stuff from from misserrowskiing. Just that the way this pitches move,
with the velocity that he's got. Again, I understand why
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why Pat Murphy made the move that he did. It's
you want to get an additional lefty bat. You don't
want to lose the game early, and and and from
his perspective, and it's a very logical thought that that
that the veteran left hander to begin the game is
is it better? Is a better option than than Miserrowski
to start the game against that pocket of hitters. So
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I have really I don't have an issue with with
the choice that the Murphy made. Be it. You know,
when you think about the big picture, if you start
with Misserowski and you sort of start his clock on
the first inning, he might not be around to keep
the game under control, so to speak, as late as
he did, because he'd probably have to get pulled a
little bit earlier. This is a very difficult task. This team,
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the Dodgers right now is look at how few runs
they've given up, look at how dominant they've been. That
the team with the best chance to knock them out
was probably in retrospect, the Phillies, and and we obviously
know how how that series unfolded. So I just think
in general, sure second guessing is fair in this case,
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but I think actually Murphy made the right call. And
and I'm not sure if you put Connie Max, Tony
LaRussa and uh and any anybody else in the dugout
to think this through and to devise the pitching plans.
I'm not sure anybody could find a way to manage uh,
the Brewers past the Dodgers, given the firepower that La
has right now.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, look, I think if you're the Brewers, John Paul,
you just say, we've run into a starting pitching buzzsaw
the first unid What are we.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Going to do?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The only the only down downside of this I see
for the Dodgers is Okay, are they going to get
a bounce in the World Series? Like are they are
they gonna Are they gonna pitch this well again in
the World Series Because it's not like they're pitching this
well and they're winning these games six one, seven to one.
They're pitching this well, they're winning two to one and
three one. Their offense hasn't been great. So if they
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if they get any downtick pitching wise, and it's really
tough to keep it going all the way through the
World Series. Like that's the only thing I worry for
with the Dodgers going forward.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Well, it's fair and I think you're right that the
really the Dodgers have not had offensive nights like frankly
the ones we've seen from the Blue Jays the last
couple of days, or even the Mariners in Game two,
where where the Mariners showed that on the right night,
they can probably outscore anybody. You know, it hasn't looked
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that way to laugh two nights, But then again, it
didn't look that way for the Jays the first two games.
So I think whichever team wins this series will we'll
have a legitimate shot at toppling the Dodgers. It's gonna
be difficult to pick against LA because of all the
talent they've got, all the experience they've got, everything we're
seeing right now in this series, and again too, the
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pitching equation when you when you are basing yourself on
on the on the mound. The lack of familiarity, at
least within the league often does work in the favor
of the of the teams once you cross over the
World Series. Now, it's not like it used to be
where the only time, uh, the Cardinals ever saw the
Tigers was you know, the sixteen World Series. It is
(24:27):
different now, of course, for a variety of reasons. But
I think the way the Dodgers are are performing tells
me that when when players were that talented, has that
amount of time to prepare for one particular opponent in
one particular setting. The Dodgers are a formidable force. And
and by the way, we haven't even seen Otani pitch
in this series yet, so h that comes tomorrow. So
(24:50):
that it's it's an embarrassment of riches right now for
the Dodgers, and and uh and those that looked at
their roster in spring training and said, wow, that team
probably should win the World Series. They may they may
be right at the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Yeah, when we look at it, and the contrast between
what the Brewers are and what the ale opponent TV
named later Brewers, their their whole marketing was were pesky. Well,
if you're not on base, you can't play station to
station versus one mistake on the other and suddenly it's
you're into the pen, correct.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
And I think that when you look at the Blue Jays,
you know here in Seattle watching this game tonight, you
would not describe the Jays as a pesky line up.
That they've got no and they've got some serious firepower
and at some point they might get Bobaschette back for
the next round. We don't know that that would be
a might be a bit of a leap of faith
(25:44):
for them that to bring him back in that circumstance.
But yeah, there's when you consider right now, and especially
with Curio leaven the game today, that's a concern. There's
just Milwaukee. If you just set that payroll against the
Dodgers payroll, Dodgers' resources against the Brewers' resources, it's just
it's a different it's just a very very different set
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of circumstances. It's very hard for Milwaukee to win unless
they play a perfect series. They've actually played I think
overall pretty well. They haven't beaten themselves in my opinion.
From Milwaukee's perspective, they just they're up against a really,
really talented team that's not making mistakes, pitching well, hitting
their spots. It's this this series, in my view, in
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the National League side is being one way more than
it's being lost. In my opinion, it's just it's a
very very talented LA team, and to your point, the
Blue Jays and Mariners too, when they've got Raley going
and they've got jay Rod going and Polanko who has
played phenomenally well. This postseason. You know, they're both way
better than just simply a pesky line up there. They
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both have a chance to really put up some depressive numbers.
And I think that's what the Mariner fans here in
Seattle are are anxiously awaiting in Game five, given how
the last couple of nights have gone.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Well, there is your phrase, he anxiously awaiting. Not only
does John Paul Morosi kill it as an MLB Network insider,
it covers the NHL playoffs for NHL Network and he
is undefeated this season picking Lions games. He is a
perfect six and zero picking the Lions games. Michigan proud
(27:20):
Michigan resident, as John Paul Morosi is John Paul. We
get your Lions pick every week. Your undefeated record is
on the line. You picked against them last week and
you won. I had to say that because you know
it may be tougher to get back to Michigan now,
because but I had to say it.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
How do you think things go this week? Five and
a half point favorite, fifty two and a half the total?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Wow? All right, Well, here's what I've got. I'm gonna
have to apologize to coach Campbell right away. I've got
I've got the Bucks, the Bucks winning this one twenty
four to twenty. I'm a little bit of a lower
scoring old school NFC Norris, as Chris Berman would say,
(28:03):
collision there between the Bucks and the Lions. I've got
Tampa Bay twenty four Lions twenty as the Bucks avenge
their playoff loss in that very same venue a couple
of years ago. I do remember that game, so I've
got that much. I've got a brief amount of institutional
knowledge there. The Bucks are off to a good start.
(28:24):
I think they're going to find a way to win
a four point game at Ford Field against the Lions.
And I'm risking my perfect record of Lions predictions on
that particular mark.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
You think Doug Williams has a big week? Is Tampa
Bay quarterback? Or do they go to Steve Young at
some point?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
What do you think?
Speaker 7 (28:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
I think, wasn't it? I think, actually, here's I got
a name for you. I think they're actually gonna make
a decision between Steve de Berg and Vinnie testa Vernie.
I think it's the idea.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Steve de Burgh.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
On Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi,
MLB Network, inst Cider extraordinary. John Paul Morosi putting his
unbeaten Lions picking streak on the line once again, picking
against Dan cald Bold strategy Tott. John Paul is always buddy,
We'll talk to you next week and enjoy the guys.
(29:21):
Got it, buddy, anybody there goes John Paul Morosi. I'm sorry,
Dan Campbell, I'm picking against you again. Okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I do like that he puts the apology ahead of it, though.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
It's like I gotta say I'm sorry to coach Campbell, yeah,
right away with the staff.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
To Jared Goff.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, It's like when you walk in you apologize to
your parents for something you did before you tell them.
I just want to say I'm sorry. All that would
do is get your mom upset, and that upset before
you even told.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
What What did you do?
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Now?
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I'm mad. I don't want you be mad. I want
you so I'm apologizing.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yeah, but did you lead with the big one that
you screwed up for the little one? I'm just hoping
they wouldn't find them. Oh no, I would always. I
would always lead with the big one and hope the
little one just kind of falls away, like they don't care.
About the little one as much because it's the big one.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Okay, yeah, seeing as Pop didn't really dig you not
taking out the garbage, Yeah no, and you actually did
something legitimately wrong.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I fear it. Lots of times.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I think that mailbox caper. I mean that wouldn't have
gone over like the Jets. There's a lot of times
in that house. I could do nothing right no matter what.
That's how it goes.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
We've all been there time.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
How to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from Monci Belanyo. She's got everything going on,
including all the money she won tonight because she had
land Junior with another home run. Congratulations coming away with
all that cash, Monzie.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Would you
like something with all my cash, with all my winnings,
what should I buy for everybody? Pizza next week?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, pizza next week? All right, pazza next week with
all of my winnings. Okay that I have.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
My winnings really are gonna come from Aaron Rodgers. Actually,
because I had Josh Allen on a buy in two
of my fantasy leagues Boom and I.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Pio had to play Rogers. Let's go ros other options.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
I could have picked Bryce Young, you know, like, but
I went with Ayer Rogers and he delivered despite the
two interceptions. He delivered for my teams on my fantasy
but he didn't deliver necessarily for the Steelers because the
Bengals won it. They walked it off on a field goal,
actually coming out on top thirty three to thirty one.
Joe Flacco with another game winning drive, his thirtieth career
(31:25):
game winning drive by the way. He ended thirty one
to forty seven, three hundred and forty two yards and
three touchdowns. Jamar Chase sixteen catches, one hundred and sixty
one yards and a touchdown. Chase Brown had eleven carries
for one hundred and eight yards. When it came to Rogers.
For my fantasy team, he was twenty three to thirty four,
two hundred and forty nine yards, four touchdowns, and two interceptions.
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In baseball, the Dodgers did top the Brewers three to one.
They are now one went away from advancing to the
World Series. The Brewers offense has struggled. They've only had
nine hits through these three games, compared to la who
has had twenty three hits. It's also the first time
Milwaukee is zero to three in his seven game series.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
The Blue Jays have even the series.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
In the ALCS.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
After defeating the Mariners eight to two, Max Scherzer, in
his five hundredth career start, didn't want to come out
of the game, and this is what he had to
say to Derek Jeter and the guys on Fox.
Speaker 8 (32:17):
Yeah, you know, it was a two hot situation. I
just checked the board. I think I was at sixty
nine or seventy pitches. My arm felt great, you know,
two outside Randy was coming up, and in my head
I was going through, you know, kind of in my
sequence of how I wanted to pitch Randy, you know,
thinking through the situation, and all of a sudden, I
see Schneid's coming out and it kind of caught me
off guard. And you know, that's just where one of
(32:40):
those moments where I know I won the ball. I
knew this situation of the game, I wanted the ball,
and I basically told him that in a little bit
different language.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah, yeah, you don't say, you don't say, well, you know, yeah,
I think he said. He didn't even say that many
words to him.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
He just gave him a death stare, and John said, Okay,
I'm on my way back to the dug out here.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Go go ahead, see thank you so much. I see you
over there, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Exactly. On the ice one game still going on.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
The Golden Knights are edging the Bruins six' five with
about six minutes to go in the, game and The
hurricanes are the only team in THE nhl that are.
Undefeated they just beat The ducks for, One penguins over
The kings four to.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Two back to, you, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Buddy Watching schneider go back was like that feet From
goodfellas When henry comes home after the whole night out
and And Lorraine broco's mom and will handle this and
she opens the door and the mother, goes where have you?
Been and he just stops and he turns around and he,
walks just walks right, away gets back in the car With.
Joe they start, Laughing, yeah you're a bad, Boy, Henry Holy,
(33:41):
Blanke what the blank kind of people at? Hey that
Was John schneider should turn around to go just keep.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Walking and you, Know John Palmer, rossi who you guys
just spoke, to has a quote about an hour ago
That John schneider on The Max sure's their. Visit the quote,
WAS i thought he was going to kill. Me it was,
Great and.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Well we have more baseball on the way coming up.
Next one player who is a three hundred plus million
dollar player has been called good by his. Team oh,
boy good do we got DRAMA x That's.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Fox be sure to catch live editions Of The Jason
Smith show With Mike harmon weekdays at ten Pm, eastern
seven Pm. Pacific what historic baseball team The dodgers remind me?
Of we got that coming up in about fifteen. MINUTES i,
MEAN i like, it BUT i don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
That today was a happy thirty third birthday For phillies
Slugger Bryce, harper because.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Well you, know, hey all, right, hey happy happy. Birthday.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
AL i don't know how happy The phillies are With Bryce.
Harper we talked about this about a week and a half.
Ago Bryce harper is a pretty good. Player he hasn't
been elite in a long. Time and NOW i think
there's absolute proof that The phillies listened to the show
because we talked about. This, Look harper hasn't been a.
(35:09):
Lite he was maybe elite for a couple of, years,
Right but the guys he's always the image Of Bryce
harper has always been better than the. Reality he is
an old thirty, two now he's an older thirty. Three
he went from everyday right. Fielder now he's playing first.
Base pretty soon he's going to be the designated. Hitter
he's not aging, great and he's not been great for a.
(35:30):
While he has been pretty. Good, well apparently we feel
a little bit better about him Than Jim Dave dombrowski
because he said today About Bryce harper, quote he's still
a quality. Player he didn't have an elite season like
he's had in the. PAST i guess we only find
out if he becomes elite or he continues to be,
(35:51):
good not pretty, good said h. Good he continues to be.
Good that's Who Bryce harper. Is i'm, sorry but, yes
he came up with all sorts of expectation and he showed,
that oh maybe he is the next great. Player and
a couple of years when people were afraid to pitch to,
him he got a lot of. Walks but he doesn't
knock in one hundred runs Every year's only done it
(36:11):
a couple of. Times you look at his numbers like
the guy's a twenty seven and seventy five guy for his,
career because part of it is being able to stay
on the. Field when you get to thirty two thirty
three and you're only playing one hundred and twenty five,
Games i'm sorry The phillies aren't paying you thirty five
million dollars a year for twenty seven and seventy. FIVE
i can get that From Brett batty And i'm not
paying him any. Money BUT i, Mean Bryce, harper he's
(36:33):
a pretty good, player but apparently The phillies don't think
he's that. Good, OKAY i will tell you he. Is
they think he is a good. PLAYER i, mean, really
this is kind of we told you this is Who
Bryce harper, is and now even The phillies don't believe
in him and being that elite.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Player, yeah the rest of THE guo was essentially asking
the rhetorical is can he be that good? Again and
then he paused and, SAID i really don't know that. Answer, yeah, like, oh,
okay but it's. TRUE i mean it's an old thirty.
Two we've talked about it as a guy that came
into the league with such great acclaim at. Eighteen that's
(37:10):
a lot of weary miles on your. Body it's kind
of like Watching what's happened To Mike. Trout now he
had a longer. Runway didn't lead to any, winning but
it led to a decade of ridiculous, stats eventually crashing into,
walls diving from, balls and everything else caught up on.
Him same thing With Bryce harper finally hit that point
and now it's the next phase of the game as
(37:32):
a first base and slash dh and, look whenever a
guy gets that kind of, money we know that the
back end usually isn't terribly, kind and you hope that
you've made up for it In jersey sales and whatever
you were able to. Do now the thing is for
a guy Like.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Harper, Right, okay if you're not that, guy don't try
to pull, everything don't try to put hit hit the
ball the other, way, Right it's okay to hit the
ball the other. Way, Look Freddy freeman got to thirty
two to thirty three and, say you know, What i'm
gonna hit the ball the other way a lot. More
look At Freddie. Freeman he is still a superstar, player
and The dodgers are Winning World series Like Bryce, harper
(38:13):
be okay with that, man be okay with hitting the
ball the other. Way but look This phillies. Team i'll
tell you, what, MAN i. Know it was a bad
year for The. Mets mets. Collapsed For phillies have had
a squad the last couple of years and they can't
they can't get past this level right. Now they can't
get to the league championship. Series and now that's gonna
be a lot of. Change telling, you, man you Watch Bryce,
(38:34):
harper this is gonna be a contract that's an albatross
for the for The, Phillies they're going to fall off
the pace very quickly because this team is built around
Sluggers Bryce, harper and that guy third in the lineup
now second in the lineup is not that guy, anymore
and he hasn't.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Been and when you.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Have to be able to replace guys with less unproven,
players because guys Like Kyle schwarber are gonna get forty
five million dollars a year contract when you hit fifty
five home, runs that happens for. You like you watch
the era of The, PHILLIES i feel pretty comfortable, that,
yeah they take a big step back next year and
Suddenly Bryce harper's, man this contract is killing.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Us, Yeah schworber eliminates a lot OF rbi. Opportunity but
the point isn't lost in terms of changing your hitting,
approach and you've got to be a, better more consistent
player of just putting the ball into play, right strikeout
count high once. Again but you look At, Robertson, Romano, Kepler, Real, Muto,
suarez And schwarber all free. Agents, YEAH i, mean how
(39:36):
many teams are lining up to go After. SCHWARBER i
mean there's a lot of talk In chicago that The cubs, say,
Hey Kyle, tucker someone else can go sign. Years oh,
yeah and welcome back the guy that never should have.
Left he can come be A dh for the next five.
Years like we don't have to worry about the lack
of tread on a player that's just A. Dh like
you could still hit late into your, thirties, man in
(39:58):
that you're not playing the field and you're just That
clearly he's comfortable being a designated. Hitter, yeah someone's gonna
give him forty some million dollars a year and ain't
could be The phillies full Hero Now i'm telling, you,
man they'll get Nick folk, Too they'll get all those
guys there you. Have it's he's an old thirty three
and this contract is just gonna get worse as time goes.
On he's still he's still got half the contract plus to.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
Go.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Again we expect them to age, badly not fall off a. Cliff.
Now we told, him we said. That philly said this
to him. Clearly the Thanks.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Dave The phillies listened to the. Show so, congratulations it,
works Dombrows, kith we love. You exit out about A
fresca Exit Swallen.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Dome tell your friends the.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Team The dodgers remind me of coming up, next as
well as what's next for the team they beat in
The World series last.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Year yeesh focks
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yes, all right, ty Shirt, it's a great open. It's fun.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
But people think I picked the Jets for the Super
Bowl this year because of that, and I did it.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I did not.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I said maybe five hundred and we can play fun
games in December. I did that two years ago, two.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Years ago when we got out what's the time stamp
on that tenth though?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I did, yeah, when they were zero and four, making
my Week four Super Bowl prediction. No, you were looking
to be ahead of the curve. I did not, well,
way ahead. Yeah. Well, Actually, what I do like is
when they do is it Grock or AI that does
the uh hey, we we played out all the Super
Bowl winners for the next hundred years? Yeah, Rock, And
I always look for the Jets where the Jets, oh
(01:15):
twenty thirty nine. Okay, all right, another fourteen years from now. Okay,
that's gonna win the super Bowlkay. We got one of
the next hundred years.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
That means we're halfway through our run here at Fox
Sports Radio. Because you said after that you'll just roll over.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Well, it's Bob, we get to the last Bobby Benia
day in twenty thirty five.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
You don't want to get four more years, four more years, Bobby,
but go on a big tour. Start showing up all
sorts of places.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Bobby bo Bobby boom, uh, Thursday Night Football, Yes, old
guys rule.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I in fact, I'm already thinking the shows tomorrow that
are gonna do the Hey, your favorite old athletes over
the age of forty, phone number, Give out the phone
number and take phone calls. Who are your favorite over
forty athletes?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Right? You know that?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well they might have done part one today.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I already think of some of the shows are gonna
do that to my I already known I can already.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
The old guys.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
But it is gonna be a big day for old
guys tomorrow because we had three guys in their forties
with big nights and night Joe Flacco, Aaron Rodgers, and
Max Schurzer. Now, I picked the Steelers to win this game. However,
I am okay with them losing because my larger point
that they stink is what's out there now. Because the
(02:34):
Steelers stink, I told you they stink, They're not They
don't do anything really well. Right now, Rogers threw the
ball well tonight. You through throwball well tonight. Jalen Warren
did run the ball well tonight. I was a very
encouraging Briarmouth caught some pass he had the back in hell.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Not quite the night for DK Metcalf.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Which Alex Tyshert Welcome to the world of cursing athletes
because Tyshirt gave us his big preaching last night. As
you know last week he said Giants are gonna win
Thursdaynight Football by fourteen points. I was like, you're crazy,
and he turned out to be right. So he let
ty Shirt pick the game last night, and he said
Dk Metcalf three touchdowns. DK Metcalf had his worst game
of the year. What fifty yards receiving and a big
(03:15):
fumble at the end of the first half that gave
the Bengals a field goal. So now Alex Tyshert understands
what happens when you curse the other team because you
picked that big night for Metcalf and he was terrible tonight. Congratulations,
it's on you.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
I will own it. I also wear it proudly because
I should have been right.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Wait.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Oh, okay, okay, I see that's how you're gonna do it. Okay, No,
all right, I should have been right. Yeah, but you
were wrong.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
No, I was wrong. I should have been right.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
They checked Aaron Rodgers. They wore uniforms that looked like
the yardage, you know what I'm saying. They didn't know
where to throw it. I didn't see all these guys
in the white uniforms. They were so low to the
ground with all the snow on the ground, I couldn't
tell where they were. They would just run back up
and try to grab the football. I didn't see it
blank spaces. So it was a good night for the
(04:05):
Steelers moving the football tonight. But look, but the Bengals
are terrible. The Bengals defense is awful. No hendrickson tonight.
They had no pass rush on Aaron Rodgers and they
still lost the game. The Steelers aren't a great football team.
They're not even a good football team. They're a team
that's gonna wind up winning this division with an OK
record because everybody else is struggling. Now, clearly the Bengals tonight. Right,
(04:26):
we'll get to Flacco in a couple of minutes, but
clearly this is a Steelers team that, Yeah, every year
there's the one team that's really weak and winds up
winning a division because the win division is bad and
they go play in their first playoff game, they get
boat raced and go home.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
That's the Steelers. That is absolutely the Steelers. Because the
Steelers stink, they're not good again, they don't. The defense
this is clearly not your steel curtain of two years ago,
three years ago, ten years ago. I mean, this defense
is getting worked the entire season. You opened up by
letting the Jets put like fu five hundred yards of
offense on you. The Jets, man, they had minus ten
(05:04):
yards passing last week against the Broncos, who also are
a good defense, but they're actually really good.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So I mean the Steelers. You don't.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
The defense is terrible, and offensively, nobody really scares you.
But it's just the Bengals defense is terrible. So, okay,
you're not good. You're not a good team. It's it's
okay to admit that every ever, Like I said, one
team every year, they're not that good, but they win
the division because the rest of it stinks.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
That's the Steelers. They came into the game giving up
what twenty three points a game ish, which was bottom teams. Okay, fine,
pass rush had been better the last couple of weeks.
Joe Flacco will get more into him in a minute,
but get rid.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Of everything's middle of the field, undil of the road
with them, it's not like middle road there they stayed.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But here's the beauty of it, right, it's a long season.
It's a long season. They're starting to get healthy. Friarmouth
had been a bit banged up. He looked ice and
healthy as he sprinted to daylight on that sixty eight yarder.
Warrened missed the game while he had the best game
of his season and look good and spry. Gain well
not much of a role here, sorry, folks on those
(06:14):
daily fantasy plays, but the fact that you got the
tight ends involved metcap while he only had three for fifty.
Would love to see his usage up. Would love to
see another wide receiver be up and available. Austin missed
this one. But you're you're looking at the activity towards
the deadline. Can they go find another wide receiver, you
(06:34):
know what, unlike that guy that they got rid of
who's really excelling as the number two now and Dallas
with Ceenee lamback. Yeah, but all of that to say,
Aaron Rodgers looked good. Yeah, look again, I mean he
looked fantastic. Get the Jets and look and look how
you're good you are?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I mean, look, obviously he wasn't under any sort of
dressed right, you take it with a grain of salt.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, no question about it.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
No hendrickson pass rush the guy they drafted in the
first round and was I think they said his name once.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
From late in the game there is I'm a big
proponent of if the announcers don't say your name a lot,
you're not having a great game. I'm a big proponent,
especially when you're a first first round pick that you
held out, you did a lot of stuff. They were
banking out him now like they were clocking Aaron Rodgers
at his time of release.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
In the first half. There were multiple times that was
over eight seconds. He danced left, he danced right, He
looked downfield, he checked out, he looked again. All that
kind of craziness to it. I just wonder if if
they don't actually have a lot better football ahead of them,
will they be great? No, I don't think there's a
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lot of great. I don't think there's great really in
a lot of these teams. I mean, we might have
one or two teams that separate eventually will right now
they're question marks, right.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
But they can become great. The Steelers stink, There's no question.
They're in the media of the curve. Yeah, it doesn't
matter that right there with the Bengals that stinks.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Do you angles are three and four? You do you
want to know, Joe Flagger?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You want a great meaty burger that that has great
sirloin and has done well? Or do you want a
middle of the road burger? No, you'd say the middle
of the road burger stinks.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You want since my price differential when most places is
gonna be minimal, give me thet.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I'm just saying the burger, the taste of one burger
versus the taste of another burger. If you got the
middle of the road burger versus the taste of a
really good burger. That middle of road burger stinks.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
How appropriate that that analogy, because I made tasty burgers
today for the girls. Ah, there were some damn fine burgers.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Now the flip side of it again, I am from
the future because I told you right away Joe Flacco
was gonna show up and this Bengals offense was gonna
suddenly come to life.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, you got this one better than that stupid wizard
caught that Guerrero home runner. Yeah, he didn't catch the
wizard didn't catch terrible left ward.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Awful.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
You're gonna dress up like that. It's like wearing the
sixty one shirt for hey, dump it here and then
dropping the ball?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Wait, come on, always talking dropping the base ball. I
told you Flacco was gonna have a great and immediate
impact on the Bengals, whose offense was awful under Jake Browning. Right,
what three points of the first three quarters of the
last three games they had to make a.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Move they do drove the ball down the field. He
turned the ball over just at a ridiculous rate.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, and I get that. Okay, you need a week
for Flacco. Still it wasn't awful against the Packers. Watching
this game, I could tell, Okay, it's gonna happen. I
didn't think it would happen quite like this to the
tune of over three hundred yards and three touchdowns and
Jamar Chase nearly broke Brandon Marshall's record for receptions in
a game because he had sixteen. But I knew this
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system for Flacco getting the ball to his playmakers. These
guys are all terrific. Right again, we talked about in
the first hour of the show, Jamar Chase and Ti
Higgins might be the best one two combo in all
of the NFL. Now ceedeelamb and George Pickens might get
the run Josh Redd and Arian Smith maybe, but anyway, uh,
but they're both really good. And Chase Brown has shown
(10:06):
you I'm pretty good. Now he has been awful and
averaging two and a half yards of carry. And what
happened tonight again Jamar Chase record setting night right t
three targets Man T Higgins a big night when you realize, Okay,
if one guy is catching sixteen passes, you're not going
to catch twelve, but six the big one at the end,
setting up the game rights, Chase Brown runs for one
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hundred yards, right, Like, this is exactly what I thought,
because this is a system for Flacco, right, being able
to throw that deep ball, being able to if I
thought Wilson in the moon ball was pretty good, but
Flacco being able to extend the field and as smart
as he is, he's going to take advantage of these
playmakers because with the Browns, the Browns playmakers are bad. Right,
they put him in a position to fail when they
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start this season. Okay, we got a couple of rookie
running backs and maybe the receivers. Look we're looking at
Arch Manning or whoever else we're taking next year. We're
completely punting on this year. We got Dylan Gabriel and
Chador s. He wasn't in a position to succeed, but
he's in one now with the Bengals. And like we say,
usually it's the younger quarterbacks that find out. Whether it's
Baker Mayfield have found his way a little bit before
(11:10):
he was thirty years old. Sam Darnold in his late
twenties has found his way. Gino Smith took him till
he was thirty years old. There's a system for everyone.
And the fact that you have seen Flacco play as
well as he has throughout his career. The Bengals knew
this is our guy. This is our guy because he's
gonna come in and do what we do well. And
also it's going to be where the end of the year,
when Joe Burrow comes back, Flaco's gonna say thank you,
(11:32):
tip his cap. Understand, but know that I still have
more time to play in the NFL because I'm still
really good. I can still do it in the right
system right, so many quick there's a system for everyone.
It's just weird to see it with a forty year
old quarterback because usually those guys are you get to
that point, you do what you can do, stay, you
do what you don't. Get out of your comfort zone
a lot. You really have to say, all right, I
(11:54):
want this guy to work here. And when Aaron Rodgers
tried to do that with the Jets, it didn't work right.
The offensive system was terrible. Let's a guy like Devonte
Adams in and didn't work out that great. All of
a sudden, Garrett Wilson wasn't catching passes and the team
didn't win. But Angard Rodger with the Steelers. I have
the one guy I gotta go to. It's DK Metcalf
and that's it. Okay, am I tightened. I can use.
We can run the ball. Can get the ball to
Jalen Warren out of the backfield. It works for Joe
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Flacco the same thing. I can get the ball deep
downfield of Jamar Chase. I get it in between the
Jamar Chase. I get it to t Higgins because I
could get my reads in. Chase Brown can get Now
all of a sudden, you can't just just box the
line of scrimmage. Chase Brown has room to run. Joe Flacco.
It's weird in his forties, but yes, he's one of
those guys. He's adapted to other schemes and here he
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is a system for everybody.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Oh, we're talking about the Wilson moon ball. But Flacco
has that aptitude but also can drive the ball deep
and intermediate routes. And we watched it with Jamar Chase,
We talked about it with Jay Glazer. Just being able
to get that timing synced up just that fast. And
credit to the offensive line of the Bengals. They did
a great job holding back the Pittsburgh pass rush, but
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also for Flacco and recognizing that the guys cut off
their routs and they went short and found some yak
along the way and that ends up getting them to
the winner circle. What that means long term, no, no,
but it was fun to see all three of those
weapons deployed with big days for fantasy owners. And you
know me, old guys, the longer they succeed, the younger
(13:21):
I feel.
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Speaker 3 (13:47):
Well.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Coming up next, we head to Seattle John Paul Morosi
covering the ALCS or MLB network. We have the latest
on what is turned into a series now Who has
the advantages Still Seattle? Is there any way the Brewers
can come back and win the NLCS.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
What is next for Otani and the Dodgers. Everything you
need to know is the playoffs get closer to the
World Series.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Is next? Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 2 (14:38):
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Speaker 3 (14:40):
Get him, Paulie, Ignore that fool. Listen to The Paula
and Tony Fusco.
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Speaker 3 (14:54):
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Speaker 1 (15:04):
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Mike Harmony.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
You selfish basket. He was scratching behind your ear like
you were a dog or something.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Can't get enough of Young Blood. Also can't get enough
of the Baseball playoffs. Joining us now on the hotline
a man who told us Jason, it's two nothing and
the Mariners are going home. This series is not over.
He is MLB Network insider extraordinaire covering the series in
Seattle for MLB Network. It is your lion's prognosticator extraordinaire,
(15:38):
the Pope, John Paul Morosi. What's happening, buddy?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I'm doing outstanding, my friends. Greetings from the great city
of Seattle. For the second time this week, I am
now at T Mobile Park, where I can report to
you exclusively that this American League Championship Series remains not over.
It remains not over. In fact, it is the opposite
of over. We are level at two games a piece.
(16:04):
It is a whole new series.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
My friends, Well, and I have a feeling I would
like the Blue Jays to win the series. If you
could guarantee me that what he's been doing so far
that Junior is going to hit a home run in
every game. I feel good about the Blue Jays if
that's going to continue to happen.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, their record when he hits the ball approximately five
hundred feet, which is what he did today to the
opposite field. No less, and maybe it wasn't five hundred,
but you get the idea.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Was that you dresses the Wizard?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
No, John Paul, was that you dressed the wizard? Do
you put your glove out and didn't catch it?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I think that was no.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I was actually watching that from the press box. Oh no,
I have a very solid alibi. I was in the
press box, not there, I can. I have multiple witnesses
attesting to my presence there. He of course. And I
interviewed Blatty after the game on MLB Network and he
said that it really it meant a lot to him
that he has now passed Jose Baltisa for the most
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home runs in a single postseason in Blue Jay's history.
His countrymen, of course, in the from the Dominican Republic.
So he's uh, he's going to the Hall of Fame
in all likelihood. Vladimir Gerrow Junior and and the Jays
are now where they are because of another certainly certain
Hall of Famer, in the case of Max Scherzer, with
what he has done, and that was a performance for
(17:22):
the ages we've had. Basically everybody I asked was, hey,
what did you what executive did you hear Max Versus
say to John Schneider on the mountain? And what did
you say? And I believe the the the translation on
the on the readout as it were, it would be
kind sir, I request to remain in his baseball game,
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or I have intent on finishing this inning, something like that,
I think was was what the exact John Boy translation was.
But Max Scherzer, he showed and vladi X said this
to me. He said, that's why he's going to the
Hall of Fame, and it was there's probably no better
summation than that. And Max talked afterward about this sacrifices
that go into it. Certainly as a forty one year
(18:02):
olds he's someone that has won a game in the
ALC a SID forty one years of age. First want
to do that Kenny Rogers back in two thousand and six,
and you do it with sacrifices. He's a father of four,
He and his wife Erica. It's not easy to spend
this amount of time away from home and to keep
chasing moments like this and being able to enjoy moments
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like this as a competitor, which Max is pau excellon.
So just a special knight for him. And he actually
said I asked him after the game, I said, Mac,
did you appreciate these moments in a different way than
you did fourteen years ago your first postseason start, which
was against Jeter and a Rod and those Yankees? And
he said, no, actually they're all the same, that they
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all mean something special to me. So it was kind
of an interesting answer and someone that I think we all,
with the possible exception of Mariner fans, tonight, we also
feel fortunate to have a chance to one of the
best to ever do it in Max Chersey.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
You know before you hit to the Dodgers John Paul
last on this game is that you know you talked
about Scherzer when John Schneider tried to take him out.
He said, no, I'm staying in it. It's kind of
fun to watch, but I know this is gonna end
disastrously for a team when a manager leaves a guy
in and it's a three run homer instead of a strikeout,
and suddenly the manager's gonna be mad, the players are
gonna be mad, like this is gonna end in heartache,
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and and really just in a bad way for managers
in general.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I know how it's gonna go.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Right, no, And I think that's the interesting point. And
we've all seen moments like this in different baseball games,
and John Schneider said simply, I trusted the person. I
trusted Max, And I thought that was a really good
way for him to describe it, that he, at the
end of the day, whatever was on a spreadsheet, whatever
was whatever was said before the game about Okay, if
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this pocket of the lineup comes up in the fifth
inning and then Max is on the map, we're gonna
get him out of there because we want to have
someone else come in. I just think it was a
a really special way for a manager to describe it,
that whatever the sort of objective planning looked like, that
the heartbeat of the game told him something different. And
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I just think that was a really extraordinary way for
John to describe what happened in his decision to keep
Max in the game and give Max a chance at
a postseason win, which is something he wasn't able to do.
Max's team won the World Series in twenty three, but
he didn't get a World Series win in twenty twenty three.
So I think that from that perspective that this was
a deeply meaningful personal accolade. In addition to I'm sure
(20:34):
and obviously Max is mind first and foremost was getting
the win for the Toronto Blue Jays and evening this.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Series flipping the other series JP ashby third appearance for
the Brewers that ends poorly as shoe Otani gets the head,
Bets follows up down one nothing and then Misowski comes in.
You know, we're first guessing from the chairs something Pat
Murphy might regret not just going with the young straight
(21:00):
out of the gate.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Well, miss miss was really good tonight, and watching his
stuff I was able to keep an eye on it
before our game began here in Seattle. Just absolute dominant
stuff from from misserrowskiing. Just that the way this pitches move,
with the velocity that he's got. Again, I understand why
(21:22):
why Pat Murphy made the move that he did. It's
you want to get an additional lefty bat. You don't
want to lose the game early, and and and from
his perspective, and it's a very logical thought that that
that the veteran left hander to begin the game is
is it better? Is a better option than than Miserrowski
to start the game against that pocket of hitters. So
(21:44):
I have really I don't have an issue with with
the choice that the Murphy made. Be it. You know,
when you think about the big picture, if you start
with Misserowski and you sort of start his clock on
the first inning, he might not be around to keep
the game under control, so to speak, as late as
he did, because he'd probably have to get pulled a
little bit earlier. This is a very difficult task. This team,
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the Dodgers right now is look at how few runs
they've given up, look at how dominant they've been. That
the team with the best chance to knock them out
was probably in retrospect, the Phillies, and and we obviously
know how how that series unfolded. So I just think
in general, sure second guessing is fair in this case,
(22:27):
but I think actually Murphy made the right call. And
and I'm not sure if you put Connie Max, Tony
LaRussa and uh and any anybody else in the dugout
to think this through and to devise the pitching plans.
I'm not sure anybody could find a way to manage uh,
the Brewers past the Dodgers, given the firepower that La
has right now.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, look, I think if you're the Brewers, John Paul,
you just say, we've run into a starting pitching buzzsaw
the first unid What are we.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Going to do?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The only the only down downside of this I see
for the Dodgers is Okay, are they going to get
a bounce in the World Series? Like are they are
they gonna Are they gonna pitch this well again in
the World Series Because it's not like they're pitching this
well and they're winning these games six one, seven to one.
They're pitching this well, they're winning two to one and
three one. Their offense hasn't been great. So if they
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if they get any downtick pitching wise, and it's really
tough to keep it going all the way through the
World Series. Like that's the only thing I worry for
with the Dodgers going forward.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Well, it's fair and I think you're right that the
really the Dodgers have not had offensive nights like frankly
the ones we've seen from the Blue Jays the last
couple of days, or even the Mariners in Game two,
where where the Mariners showed that on the right night,
they can probably outscore anybody. You know, it hasn't looked
(23:45):
that way to laugh two nights, But then again, it
didn't look that way for the Jays the first two games.
So I think whichever team wins this series will we'll
have a legitimate shot at toppling the Dodgers. It's gonna
be difficult to pick against LA because of all the
talent they've got, all the experience they've got, everything we're
seeing right now in this series, and again too, the
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pitching equation when you when you are basing yourself on
on the on the mound. The lack of familiarity, at
least within the league often does work in the favor
of the of the teams once you cross over the
World Series. Now, it's not like it used to be
where the only time, uh, the Cardinals ever saw the
Tigers was you know, the sixteen World Series. It is
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different now, of course, for a variety of reasons. But
I think the way the Dodgers are are performing tells
me that when when players were that talented, has that
amount of time to prepare for one particular opponent in
one particular setting. The Dodgers are a formidable force. And
and by the way, we haven't even seen Otani pitch
in this series yet, so h that comes tomorrow. So
(24:50):
that it's it's an embarrassment of riches right now for
the Dodgers, and and uh and those that looked at
their roster in spring training and said, wow, that team
probably should win the World Series. They may they may
be right at the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Yeah, when we look at it, and the contrast between
what the Brewers are and what the ale opponent TV
named later Brewers, their their whole marketing was were pesky. Well,
if you're not on base, you can't play station to
station versus one mistake on the other and suddenly it's
you're into the pen, correct.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
And I think that when you look at the Blue Jays,
you know here in Seattle watching this game tonight, you
would not describe the Jays as a pesky line up.
That they've got no and they've got some serious firepower
and at some point they might get Bobaschette back for
the next round. We don't know that that would be
a might be a bit of a leap of faith
(25:44):
for them that to bring him back in that circumstance.
But yeah, there's when you consider right now, and especially
with Curio leaven the game today, that's a concern. There's
just Milwaukee. If you just set that payroll against the
Dodgers payroll, Dodgers' resources against the Brewers' resources, it's just
it's a different it's just a very very different set
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of circumstances. It's very hard for Milwaukee to win unless
they play a perfect series. They've actually played I think
overall pretty well. They haven't beaten themselves in my opinion.
From Milwaukee's perspective, they just they're up against a really,
really talented team that's not making mistakes, pitching well, hitting
their spots. It's this this series, in my view, in
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the National League side is being one way more than
it's being lost. In my opinion, it's just it's a
very very talented LA team, and to your point, the
Blue Jays and Mariners too, when they've got Raley going
and they've got jay Rod going and Polanko who has
played phenomenally well. This postseason. You know, they're both way
better than just simply a pesky line up there. They
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both have a chance to really put up some depressive numbers.
And I think that's what the Mariner fans here in
Seattle are are anxiously awaiting in Game five, given how
the last couple of nights have gone.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Well, there is your phrase, he anxiously awaiting. Not only
does John Paul Morosi kill it as an MLB Network insider,
it covers the NHL playoffs for NHL Network and he
is undefeated this season picking Lions games. He is a
perfect six and zero picking the Lions games. Michigan proud
(27:20):
Michigan resident, as John Paul Morosi is John Paul. We
get your Lions pick every week. Your undefeated record is
on the line. You picked against them last week and
you won. I had to say that because you know
it may be tougher to get back to Michigan now,
because but I had to say it.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
How do you think things go this week? Five and
a half point favorite, fifty two and a half the total?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Wow? All right, Well, here's what I've got. I'm gonna
have to apologize to coach Campbell right away. I've got
I've got the Bucks, the Bucks winning this one twenty
four to twenty. I'm a little bit of a lower
scoring old school NFC Norris, as Chris Berman would say,
(28:03):
collision there between the Bucks and the Lions. I've got
Tampa Bay twenty four Lions twenty as the Bucks avenge
their playoff loss in that very same venue a couple
of years ago. I do remember that game, so I've
got that much. I've got a brief amount of institutional
knowledge there. The Bucks are off to a good start.
(28:24):
I think they're going to find a way to win
a four point game at Ford Field against the Lions.
And I'm risking my perfect record of Lions predictions on
that particular mark.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
You think Doug Williams has a big week? Is Tampa
Bay quarterback? Or do they go to Steve Young at
some point?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
What do you think?
Speaker 7 (28:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
I think, wasn't it? I think, actually, here's I got
a name for you. I think they're actually gonna make
a decision between Steve de Berg and Vinnie testa Vernie.
I think it's the idea.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Steve de Burgh.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
On Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi,
MLB Network, inst Cider extraordinary. John Paul Morosi putting his
unbeaten Lions picking streak on the line once again, picking
against Dan cald Bold strategy Tott. John Paul is always buddy,
We'll talk to you next week and enjoy the guys.
(29:21):
Got it, buddy, anybody there goes John Paul Morosi. I'm sorry,
Dan Campbell, I'm picking against you again. Okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I do like that he puts the apology ahead of it, though.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
It's like I gotta say I'm sorry to coach Campbell, yeah,
right away with the staff.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
To Jared Goff.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, It's like when you walk in you apologize to
your parents for something you did before you tell them.
I just want to say I'm sorry. All that would
do is get your mom upset, and that upset before
you even told.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
What What did you do?
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Now?
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I'm mad. I don't want you be mad. I want
you so I'm apologizing.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yeah, but did you lead with the big one that
you screwed up for the little one? I'm just hoping
they wouldn't find them. Oh no, I would always. I
would always lead with the big one and hope the
little one just kind of falls away, like they don't care.
About the little one as much because it's the big one.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Okay, yeah, seeing as Pop didn't really dig you not
taking out the garbage, Yeah no, and you actually did
something legitimately wrong.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I fear it. Lots of times.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I think that mailbox caper. I mean that wouldn't have
gone over like the Jets. There's a lot of times
in that house. I could do nothing right no matter what.
That's how it goes.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
We've all been there time.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
How to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from Monci Belanyo. She's got everything going on,
including all the money she won tonight because she had
land Junior with another home run. Congratulations coming away with
all that cash, Monzie.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Would you
like something with all my cash, with all my winnings,
what should I buy for everybody? Pizza next week?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, pizza next week? All right, pazza next week with
all of my winnings. Okay that I have.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
My winnings really are gonna come from Aaron Rodgers. Actually,
because I had Josh Allen on a buy in two
of my fantasy leagues Boom and I.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Pio had to play Rogers. Let's go ros other options.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
I could have picked Bryce Young, you know, like, but
I went with Ayer Rogers and he delivered despite the
two interceptions. He delivered for my teams on my fantasy
but he didn't deliver necessarily for the Steelers because the
Bengals won it. They walked it off on a field goal,
actually coming out on top thirty three to thirty one.
Joe Flacco with another game winning drive, his thirtieth career
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game winning drive by the way. He ended thirty one
to forty seven, three hundred and forty two yards and
three touchdowns. Jamar Chase sixteen catches, one hundred and sixty
one yards and a touchdown. Chase Brown had eleven carries
for one hundred and eight yards. When it came to Rogers.
For my fantasy team, he was twenty three to thirty four,
two hundred and forty nine yards, four touchdowns, and two interceptions.
(31:47):
In baseball, the Dodgers did top the Brewers three to one.
They are now one went away from advancing to the
World Series. The Brewers offense has struggled. They've only had
nine hits through these three games, compared to la who
has had twenty three hits. It's also the first time
Milwaukee is zero to three in his seven game series.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
The Blue Jays have even the series.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
In the ALCS.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
After defeating the Mariners eight to two, Max Scherzer, in
his five hundredth career start, didn't want to come out
of the game, and this is what he had to
say to Derek Jeter and the guys on Fox.
Speaker 8 (32:17):
Yeah, you know, it was a two hot situation. I
just checked the board. I think I was at sixty
nine or seventy pitches. My arm felt great, you know,
two outside Randy was coming up, and in my head
I was going through, you know, kind of in my
sequence of how I wanted to pitch Randy, you know,
thinking through the situation, and all of a sudden, I
see Schneid's coming out and it kind of caught me
off guard. And you know, that's just where one of
(32:40):
those moments where I know I won the ball. I
knew this situation of the game, I wanted the ball,
and I basically told him that in a little bit
different language.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah, yeah, you don't say, you don't say, well, you know, yeah,
I think he said. He didn't even say that many
words to him.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
He just gave him a death stare, and John said, Okay,
I'm on my way back to the dug out here.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Go go ahead, see thank you so much. I see you
over there, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Exactly. On the ice one game still going on.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
The Golden Knights are edging the Bruins six' five with
about six minutes to go in the, game and The
hurricanes are the only team in THE nhl that are.
Undefeated they just beat The ducks for, One penguins over
The kings four to.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Two back to, you, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Buddy Watching schneider go back was like that feet From
goodfellas When henry comes home after the whole night out
and And Lorraine broco's mom and will handle this and
she opens the door and the mother, goes where have you?
Been and he just stops and he turns around and he,
walks just walks right, away gets back in the car With.
Joe they start, Laughing, yeah you're a bad, Boy, Henry Holy,
(33:41):
Blanke what the blank kind of people at? Hey that
Was John schneider should turn around to go just keep.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Walking and you, Know John Palmer, rossi who you guys
just spoke, to has a quote about an hour ago
That John schneider on The Max sure's their. Visit the quote,
WAS i thought he was going to kill. Me it was,
Great and.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Well we have more baseball on the way coming up.
Next one player who is a three hundred plus million
dollar player has been called good by his. Team oh,
boy good do we got DRAMA x That's.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Fox be sure to catch live editions Of The Jason
Smith show With Mike harmon weekdays at ten Pm, eastern
seven Pm. Pacific what historic baseball team The dodgers remind me?
Of we got that coming up in about fifteen. MINUTES i,
MEAN i like, it BUT i don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
That today was a happy thirty third birthday For phillies
Slugger Bryce, harper because.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Well you, know, hey all, right, hey happy happy. Birthday.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
AL i don't know how happy The phillies are With Bryce.
Harper we talked about this about a week and a half.
Ago Bryce harper is a pretty good. Player he hasn't
been elite in a long. Time and NOW i think
there's absolute proof that The phillies listened to the show
because we talked about. This, Look harper hasn't been a.
(35:09):
Lite he was maybe elite for a couple of, years,
Right but the guys he's always the image Of Bryce
harper has always been better than the. Reality he is
an old thirty, two now he's an older thirty. Three
he went from everyday right. Fielder now he's playing first.
Base pretty soon he's going to be the designated. Hitter
he's not aging, great and he's not been great for a.
(35:30):
While he has been pretty. Good, well apparently we feel
a little bit better about him Than Jim Dave dombrowski
because he said today About Bryce harper, quote he's still
a quality. Player he didn't have an elite season like
he's had in the. PAST i guess we only find
out if he becomes elite or he continues to be,
(35:51):
good not pretty, good said h. Good he continues to be.
Good that's Who Bryce harper. Is i'm, sorry but, yes
he came up with all sorts of expectation and he showed,
that oh maybe he is the next great. Player and
a couple of years when people were afraid to pitch to,
him he got a lot of. Walks but he doesn't
knock in one hundred runs Every year's only done it
(36:11):
a couple of. Times you look at his numbers like
the guy's a twenty seven and seventy five guy for his,
career because part of it is being able to stay
on the. Field when you get to thirty two thirty
three and you're only playing one hundred and twenty five,
Games i'm sorry The phillies aren't paying you thirty five
million dollars a year for twenty seven and seventy. FIVE
i can get that From Brett batty And i'm not
paying him any. Money BUT i, Mean Bryce, harper he's
(36:33):
a pretty good, player but apparently The phillies don't think
he's that. Good, OKAY i will tell you he. Is
they think he is a good. PLAYER i, mean, really
this is kind of we told you this is Who
Bryce harper, is and now even The phillies don't believe
in him and being that elite.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Player, yeah the rest of THE guo was essentially asking
the rhetorical is can he be that good? Again and
then he paused and, SAID i really don't know that. Answer, yeah, like, oh,
okay but it's. TRUE i mean it's an old thirty.
Two we've talked about it as a guy that came
into the league with such great acclaim at. Eighteen that's
(37:10):
a lot of weary miles on your. Body it's kind
of like Watching what's happened To Mike. Trout now he
had a longer. Runway didn't lead to any, winning but
it led to a decade of ridiculous, stats eventually crashing into,
walls diving from, balls and everything else caught up on.
Him same thing With Bryce harper finally hit that point
and now it's the next phase of the game as
(37:32):
a first base and slash dh and, look whenever a
guy gets that kind of, money we know that the
back end usually isn't terribly, kind and you hope that
you've made up for it In jersey sales and whatever
you were able to. Do now the thing is for
a guy Like.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Harper, Right, okay if you're not that, guy don't try
to pull, everything don't try to put hit hit the
ball the other, way, Right it's okay to hit the
ball the other. Way, Look Freddy freeman got to thirty
two to thirty three and, say you know, What i'm
gonna hit the ball the other way a lot. More
look At Freddie. Freeman he is still a superstar, player
and The dodgers are Winning World series Like Bryce, harper
(38:13):
be okay with that, man be okay with hitting the
ball the other. Way but look This phillies. Team i'll
tell you, what, MAN i. Know it was a bad
year for The. Mets mets. Collapsed For phillies have had
a squad the last couple of years and they can't
they can't get past this level right. Now they can't
get to the league championship. Series and now that's gonna
be a lot of. Change telling, you, man you Watch Bryce,
(38:34):
harper this is gonna be a contract that's an albatross
for the for The, Phillies they're going to fall off
the pace very quickly because this team is built around
Sluggers Bryce, harper and that guy third in the lineup
now second in the lineup is not that guy, anymore
and he hasn't.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Been and when you.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Have to be able to replace guys with less unproven,
players because guys Like Kyle schwarber are gonna get forty
five million dollars a year contract when you hit fifty
five home, runs that happens for. You like you watch
the era of The, PHILLIES i feel pretty comfortable, that,
yeah they take a big step back next year and
Suddenly Bryce harper's, man this contract is killing.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Us, Yeah schworber eliminates a lot OF rbi. Opportunity but
the point isn't lost in terms of changing your hitting,
approach and you've got to be a, better more consistent
player of just putting the ball into play, right strikeout
count high once. Again but you look At, Robertson, Romano, Kepler, Real, Muto,
suarez And schwarber all free. Agents, YEAH i, mean how
(39:36):
many teams are lining up to go After. SCHWARBER i
mean there's a lot of talk In chicago that The cubs, say,
Hey Kyle, tucker someone else can go sign. Years oh,
yeah and welcome back the guy that never should have.
Left he can come be A dh for the next five.
Years like we don't have to worry about the lack
of tread on a player that's just A. Dh like
you could still hit late into your, thirties, man in
(39:58):
that you're not playing the field and you're just That
clearly he's comfortable being a designated. Hitter, yeah someone's gonna
give him forty some million dollars a year and ain't
could be The phillies full Hero Now i'm telling, you,
man they'll get Nick folk, Too they'll get all those
guys there you. Have it's he's an old thirty three
and this contract is just gonna get worse as time goes.
On he's still he's still got half the contract plus to.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
Go.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Again we expect them to age, badly not fall off a. Cliff.
Now we told, him we said. That philly said this
to him. Clearly the Thanks.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Dave The phillies listened to the. Show so, congratulations it,
works Dombrows, kith we love. You exit out about A
fresca Exit Swallen.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Dome tell your friends the.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Team The dodgers remind me of coming up, next as
well as what's next for the team they beat in
The World series last.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Year yeesh focks
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