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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
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Speaker 4 (00:29):
Come on, Jason, you're not getting off that easy. What
are you talking about? Oh boy, No, well okay.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Oh Tony swings and it's a missile to our right field.
Marte will turn and watch this one fly show. Hey, Oldtani,
a lead off home run, a laser beam to right field.
Let us want nothing, Dodgers right off to Hop. In
Game four, Tommy swings takes it to left center field.
That ball is gonna get down in between Nimmo and Bader.
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Old Tony scores, Mookie's held up at third. It's an
RBI double for Tommy. Edmund now may Tons two two bets.
Swings hits a high fly ball left field, going back,
Nimmo on the track at the wall.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
It is out of here.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Lord Mookie Betts watch that one fly from the batter's
box and wearing a two run blast. Bookie's one for
two with a base hit and run score. Make it
two for three takes on the left field. This ball's
gonna get all the way to the wall. Nimmel with
his bad foot, just got it. Here comes O'tani scoring
from first. Mookie Betts delivers a two run double the corner.
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Mookie's gonna score easily. Kiirmar coming round behind him. Hooky
gotta speed up. Kimar is gonna catch him. It's a
two run double for Tommy Edmund. Here it is Smith
swings and that's a base hit and a center field
double digits for the Dodgers ten the lead here on
the top of the eighth of he.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Warns you, okay, you just wore every run. Yeah, okay,
all right, Yes, Mets beat the Dodgers eleven ten. They
score nine in the bottom of the ninth though.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Uh, Dodgers, just to make you feel slightly better about yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Dodgers win it by the final of ten to two.
Mookie Bets four for six tonight with four RBIs show
Hey Otani a home run, Max Munci a hit in
three walks, nine walks all together by the Dodgers tonight,
and they take a three to one lead in the
NLCS over the Mets, and they will go for the
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win of the series tomorrow afternoon, Game five at City Field.
And look, I'll be honest, right here's where I am.
You can say a lot of things about both teams.
Why the Dodger are up three to one, Why the
Mets are down three to one. I could talk to
you about the walks the Mets pitching staff has continued
to issue you and it's been a problem all year. Right,
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when you walk seven guys in every game, you're gonna lose. Right,
it's amazing the Mets actually found a game to win
in this series. You can't walk seven guys. The Mets
relief pitching is awful. There is not one trustworthy arm
out of the bullpen. Now, not one guy they say, hey,
when we need to shut it down, here's a high
leverage guy we can bring in. The Mets just don't
have anybody. The bullpen is on empty. You see the
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at bats the Mets are having. They're chasing pitches outside
the strike zone. They are not good at bats. The
Mets don't seem to have any life offensively. The Dodgers
look at where they are right now, right up three
games to one.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
They're hit.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
The top of the order is hitting, the bottom of
the order is hitting, they're getting on base. All of
this goes into one thing. Winning in the playoffs is
about getting hot at the right time. It always is
in baseball. You get hot and you can win it all.
You can't get hot in football and win it all.
It's too physical, there's too much every single.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
And Joe Flak.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah, okay, you're talking about twice in fifty some odd
Super Bowls, right, you can make that run.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
The NBA.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You need to fight your way through four rounds of
playoffs that are all you know, wars and best of sevens,
and it's very difficult. But you can get hot and
you can win in the playoffs. But you gotta get
hot at the right time. The Mets were hot beginning
of the playoffs, end of the regular season. They beat
the Braves in that in that doubleheader game the first game,
and they carry that through Milwaukee and they carry it
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through Philadelphia. The Dodgers were not hot. The Dodgers didn't
get hot untill near the end of the first round
against the Padres, and they flipped a switch in Game four,
and it was a shutout in Game four, a shutout
in game five. They shut out the Mets in game one,
they lose Game two, shutout in game three, and they
pummel them ten two in Game four. Here the Dodgers
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simply are playing their best baseball of the season at
the right time, and they answered a lot of questions.
We don't know what the starting pitching was gonna be.
Guess what. Starting pitching has been really good. Only getting
the Mets of one is because Dave Roberts decided, ah,
let's have a bullpen game here, and maybe winning isn't
the number one thing. Other than settling the team and
settling the order and setting up the bullpen for the
rest of the series, everything else has gone the Dodger's way.
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All the starting pitching was great. Jack Flaherty was great.
Walker Buller gave them everything he could give them in
the foreigning effort last night. That's all they wanted from him. Tonight,
Yamamoto as well, five innings. He was terrific. The Dodgers
know they're going to their bullpen nobody uses the bullpen
like the Dodgers does. And the Dodgers simply are playing
their best baseball at the right time, and the Mets
look like a team that has hit the wall. They
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had runners on base night, they couldn't come through. They
didn't grind that bats. They swung it bad pitches. Still
with a chance to make a difference in this game,
I saw a lot of swings and chases. The Mets
look like they're running on empty and the Cinderella story
is going to end. It's a team that overachieved.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
I don't know how much Cinderella it is when you
would because you can say, all right, the salary, isn't
you guys that aren't there.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, they're still money spent.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
No, it is, you said, But you're looking at what
the product the Mets are putting on the field. And
the starting rotation, okay, the starting rotation is not bad.
The bullpen is terrible, the hitting is okay enough. They
have found enough in one year rentals. They weren't even
supposed to compete this year, just supposed to be like
a team that was a Round five hundred for the playoffs.
They are on the NLCS, but eventually, Look, you're up
against the Dodgers, which is a much better team, more
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money on the field for the Dodgers than on the
field for the Mets. So that's all different. That's but
the money is playing. The money is even Otani's not
getting done. We're not paying the money for ten years.
Otani is still playing, and so it's not surprising in
that fact. But just seeing that one team is hot
and playing its best baseball, the other team looks like
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they have hit the wall. I expect tomorrow to be
a little bit more of a battle early on, but
I expect the Dodgers to come out of this with
a win. They're gonna have their best pitcher going tomorrow.
They don't want to have it come back to La
and another likely bullpen game for Game six. So what
happened in Game two and then suddenly Game seven, anything
can happen. They are going for the kill tomorrow. And
while I'm hopeful, right I'm always hopeful. I love to
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see it extend, the series go through the weekend. I'm
watching all my Metskier now I'm out of clean Metskier
because I'm in a Michigan T shirt tonight because all
my Metskier is on the watch and I've gotta watch
it all tonight, get ready for tomorrow. I'm hopeful, but
at the end of the day tomorrow, I expect the
Dodgers to win and them to be in the World Series.
They're just peaking and the Mets are looking for answers
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and they have hit the wall and the Dodgers are
continuing to roll right through it. Bad at bats, patients
by the Dodgers. I mean, we talked about the Mendoza
quote from yesterday of just how patient the Dodgers have
been and they're grinding the pictures, are having to make
a perfect pitch for your Mets. And guess what happens
when you do that. It gets hammered, it gets tattooed.
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Because you're forced into bad situations. Is they take you
deep into counts. I mean, Steve gave us the stat
right four games, we're at thirty walks.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
You can't have it, man, you can't have that. We
just can't.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Like for years and we've done it mostly with starters,
but talking about strikeout to watch ratios and you know,
walks per five per nine innings and all those things
as big metrics here. I mean, well, you've got a
team with this many guys that can club the baseball,
and that's before Max Muncion guys started hitting. Because that's
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to your point. In the Hammer at Home, a bunch
of these guys weren't exactly on their hitting their stride right.
The back of that order was doing nothing. You've had
stretches where ta Oscar and Mookie Betts had been lost
at the plate. Guess what they've been found again? Yeah,
and look, Tommy Edmund hit clean up tonight. Tommy had
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been hit clear. Now you've much better.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Right handed, and then he is left handed and going
against a left handed pitcher. Okay, Freddy Freeman doesn't play
in Tommy Edmond HiT's clean up and the Dodgers score
ten runs like you're living right like this, this is
your time right now. The moves you're making are great,
and that's the way we thought. We thought this should
be the Dodger team all season.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
A lot of positive Dodgers had eleven or twelve runners
left on base, yeah, or it could have been like
twenty three to two. Well, I mean, look, we got
to find some positivity for you mix therein but all
all those the games in the margins, and right now
they're all coming up els. Yeah, lovely on the Mets
side of things, right runners in scoring positions, you have
plenty of opportunities.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
To battle back in and and just didn't and and
popped out and didn't didn't have good at bats, still
chased and that that's the most frustrating thing is to
watch these games and to see the runs just bleed
their way through. This wasn't where the Dodgers had seven
in the fourth or just one bad inning. This was
they got a run, then they got two, then they
got two more, then they put up a goose egg,
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then they got two and then put up a goose egg.
And that's what It's ten to two. And the Mets
continue to walk batters and they continue to not make
the Dodgers pitchers work. And watching some of the at bats,
and I see Yamamoto the way he is throwing and
the way Walker Buller is throwing, they know they're like, hey,
the Mets are chasing everything, all right, And I don't
know how this has not been corrected. The Mets are
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chasing everything. Don't throw stuff in the strike zone. And
I watched JD. Martine. I watched Francisco Indors struck out
three times tonight. I'm watching them swing it bad pitches
and the Dodgers that we don't need to do this,
throw it outside the zone when it should have been
working at bats and it should have been Hey, let's
get runners on base. We can bleed the runners on
base two. He's not like the Dodger pitchers have been
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all lights out. Walker Bueller is stunk right, gam Moto
is still trying to extend himself out to five innings,
and the Mets continue to help the Dodgers pitch. Yeah,
we're gonna still chase those pitches. We're gonna still swing
the balls, and and and and watching even at bats
to turn into runs for the Mets. Mets had bases
loaded one out in the in the thirty in the
fourth inning, and I'm watching Brandon Nemo swing at two
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pitches that are up at his neck and this coount
should be three and one. He should be three and one,
bases loaded one out, and everybody's going crazy, We're getting
back in this game, and instead it's one and two
and he hits a ground ball to second base because
he's because you know, obviously he's got a he can't
go down swinging and the Mets get a run on
a force out, but the Dodgers will take that going oh,
base loaded, one out and we give up a run there.
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That's fine, But a couple of pitches flip at bats
all the time. And when I see that he saw mad,
I wasn't nimo.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
When I'm like, what do you do? What do you
The ball's gonna hit you and you still swing?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Like the Mets are just mentally lost right now, That's
what I mean, Like I think they have hit the wall.
Like I see Francisco Lindor when he comes up after
batting and he no longer has that look of that
little uh cockiness and you know, melted in his in
his demeanor, which is which is hey, every just a
day at the park, like I see him, and his
body language is bad.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Well some of it is. They're going up to the play.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
It's like it's not rocking jock softball, Like there's not
some target out there where it's suddenly a ten run
home run. It's like, go up and have your normal
at bat. And Lindor, who'd been you know, the epitome
of com of all right, I'm going up, here's a hit,
a home run, and I'm gonna stroll across around the
bases like it's a you know, the first inning of
Game four of the year. All of a sudden, that's
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gone because he's trying to kill everything. And look the
we talked about it a little bit at the start
of the show and a bit yesterday. The umpiring has
been terrible, So part of that becomes, all right, I'm
swinging at pitches that are off the plate a little
bit as well. It's not to excuse it, right, there's excuses,
there's reasons, and I think for some of this, particularly
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on the Mets side, I think the Dodgers' strategy was
doesn't matter, we're gonna take. We're gonna keep taking and
try to extend these guys and force them into the
perfect pitch. But for the Mets, hitters just seemed like
they were starting to play to those edges and play
the strike zone a little further up and a little
further down because we saw some low strikes in the
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first couple of innings, right, You saw out pitches where
the batter would just look back at the umpire like
seriously and so all of a sudden, you're protecting a
much bigger zone to that. So now you're having that
kind of issue along the way. Look, I want to
think that it can. Mets have had a whole year
about bouncing back. But sometimes you get to a point where, Okay,
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you've gone as far as you can.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Jason, can I simplify all of this for you? I
just simplified, Oh, just stop it. The NLCS.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
It's not Week one. They just God, just stop. What's
the both of you? Just stop?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
The Jason, I firmly expect tomorrow night we'll be taking you. Look,
obviously it's a big football Friday. We'll be looking at
at a big, big weekend in college football, ye Friday,
but we're gonna be talking about the Dodgers going to
the World Series and and and the fact that this
is where we thought they should be. And look, they
showed you they can spend four months meandering around five hundred. Hey,
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we got out to a big lead in the division
after two months. Now it's gotta maintain. It's gotta stay
twenty games over. And then when you thought things were
just the point where it was too much for them,
they catch fire against the Padres like that, and they
have not given up since.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
I gotta I'll try to speak for Frostburg here and
see if that he nods his head for me. It's
like how much sweeter does the comeback and rolling over
the Padres going? Now that you're three and one in
this series, Remember is after that six run barrage, they've
given up nothing since, Like they've just rolled since whatever
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happened in that post game.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The Dodgers are just dominating now. I think it was
just look, it was this is how we're gonna run
this game. We're gonna run a bullpen game and it's
a one nothing game, and I'm not going to bring
in high leverage arms, like what are you doing? Like,
but you could do that in a seven game series, right, Hey,
it's more important that we rest our pitchers and we're
coming off of this. We have a day off for
the next game. That's how we're gonna That's the game
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the Mets won with the Dodgers, and Dave Roberts treated
that as well. We could win this game, we could not,
which I thought at the time that's a fatal mistake
makes but instead, nope, now we have it set up
and look where we are. Three games to one of
the Mets look like they're not even competing because every
every game.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
The Mets look like the Saints today.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Man, I don't know about that. They love Carlos Mendoza.
They want to play for him. He's going to be
the manager next year. At least the Saints scored. You know, Dennis,
that we scored two week we got two exit out
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Speaker 4 (15:38):
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Speaker 1 (15:41):
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Speaker 6 (15:52):
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Speaker 1 (15:57):
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a parlay I want to hit you with right away.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
Ye boy, fire, fire away Smith. I just want to
know if you're a fan of horror movies, first and foremost, Yes, Todd.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I am a fan of horror movies. Why would you ask, because.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
That's where characters come back from the dead, and that's
what we're going to need to see in the National
League Championship Series. If your Mets are able to stave
off elimination.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well that's my parlay. I want the Mets to win
the NLCS and DeVante Adams one hundred yards on Sunday.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Well, the Mets to win the NLCS is a little
bit more straightforward than the Devonte Adams. But you know what,
the one thing I will say before we get to
the price, the Jets must have the best training staff
in the entire NFL, because the hamstring that was plaguing
DeVante Adams out here in the desert magically no longer
an issue when he's going to be playing Sunday night
football for the Jets. But in terms of the NLCS
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right now, with the Mets chasing that three one series
deficit nine to one, the going rate so not astronomical
by any stretch of the imagination, but they'll have to
stave off elimination as an underdog in the next game
with David Peterson coming in right around a plus one
twenty dog opposing John Flaherty.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I figured you'd had another Mets line. You want to know,
that's all.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
That's no, I don't like to take people when they're down.
I got my one jab in and I will take
the high road. The remainder of this segment.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Oh no, you're a You're a gentleman and a scholar.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
I really just thought Smith was going to start digging
down deep to figure out what brandon Nimo would be
able to bring to the table to help help matters.
Did I get odds on how many times the Dodgers
walk tomorrow?
Speaker 7 (17:47):
At this point, I mean, you begin to wonder how
things will play out. But hey, the big, biggest storyline
that we've seen all season is every time you write
the Mets off, they stave off elimination. So if there's
one team that's been able to show some level of resilience,
all it takes is one game. And look, I'm a
Yankee fan. I lived through the Boston Red Sox are racing.
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He's three nothing serious deficits, So anything is indeed possible.
It will just probably have to start with the Mets
having a scoreless frame, not allowing Mooki bets and show
hey with Honey to build a cushion in the first
inning before the Mets come to the dish.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Well you mentioned the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, well, Baseball's going to put a new rule. They're
going to make Otani bat ninth tomorrow. Oh that's going
to really help them out. Yeah, everybody's going to do
the reverse batting order from today. Wow, So that's going
to help the Mets.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
You know, it's worked, It's worked in little league games
for years, so maybe Major League Baseball wants to try
and get a little bit more inventory out of it.
And we could see it happening. But you know, you
mentioned the Yankees, Harma, and they of course had Cleveland
down to their final out. They were massive favorites in
that spot, and Luke Weaver blinked, I mean a pitcher
that I don't think the Yankees expected to be pitching
these high leverage situations earlier in the season. Clay Holmes
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continue to do what he does and pitch with ball
pitch balls that have no movement whatsoever and typically end
up in the seats at critical junctures and baseball games.
As far as the price for Game four with Lease
Heel opposing Gavin Williams, you're looking at a pick em
right now with a total sitting at seven and a half.
There are some eights out there, and I would anticipate
a little bit of over money potentially entering before first
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pitch tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Coming off the huge emotional win some chicanery last week,
Oregon goes to Purdue tomorrow twenty eight and a half
point favorite, So not looking for a massive upset to happen,
but can Purdue put a wrinkle into this?
Speaker 7 (19:30):
I mean, wes Lafayette has been a tricky place to
play in the past. But interestingly enough, when you look
at this game, despite the large number we've actually seen,
professional money laying price is shy of four touchdowns here
with the Ducks. It's not for me given the situational
strength to the spot that would benefit the home team
here catching more than four touchdowns in their own building.
Credit to Purdue, they battled back last week. They're chasing
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a twenty seven to three deficit against Illinois, scored forty
points in the second half, forced overtime before they came
up just short for a team that a lot of
people at not for dead but player for player, man
for man and coverall coaching scheme. It's the only way
that Purdue can compete tomorrow night is with a flat
spot for the Oregon Ducks if they're too busy reading
their own press clippings and celebrating the minor upset last
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weekend at the hands of the Ohio State buck guys
at outsin all right.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So now before we get to the NFL slate this weekend.
Mike and I talked about this earlier in the show.
Hard for me to believe anybody but Dennis Allen is
the next favorite to be fired as NFL head coach.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Did you go to even money after tonight? What is it?
Is even better than that or what is it?
Speaker 7 (20:34):
You know? It's such a tough spot because when you
look at the Saints right now, that roster they had
to go out there and compete with tonight isn't up
to snuff. And we talked a little bit about it
on our bet the Board podcast earlier before some of
the injuries had truly become official. Then you lose another
member of the secondary and Paulson adiebo for me, as
the Saints are currently constructed, that's a bottom three roster,
if not rock bottom until they get some of those
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pieces back in the fold, I won't even make him
the favorite. The guy I think we should be looking
at if he loses on Sunday may have to pay
for his own international plane ticket back to the States
would be Doug Peterson. So that's a guy that I
think is on an even hotter seat than Dennis Allen,
you can overlook some of the injury woes. I'm not
sure there's a coach, whether it's Bill Belichick or Tom
Landry in his prime, that was going to go out
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there and get the Saints to perform at a higher
level than what we saw tonight. The problem for them
is that defense is so banged up they can't make tackles.
And I hate to say it, but there looked like
there was a little bit of a quick factor midway through.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
The third quarter.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Detroit heads out to Minnesota over under, sitting around fifty
one for this one. Todd can Flores and his defense
fly around and keep Jared Goff of Bay, you know,
after they embarrassed the Cowboys in such dramatic fashion, well one.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Of the marquee games of the weekend. But I do
think this Lion's offense will find it significantly more difficult.
Of course, that is a relative term to move the
football than what they've done against their last two opponents,
where they hung forty on the Cowboys last weekend and
forty before the buy on Monday Night Football against the
Seahawks team that was dealing with a ration injuries as well.
Minnesota defensively going to try and do everything they can
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to heat up Jared Goff. He is one of the
more sensitive quarterbacks when it comes to his delta between
completion percentage over expectation with and without pressure. On the
other side, I think it'll be interesting to see what
the Lions do to generate pressure in their own right.
Aiden Hutchinson was such a difference maker, and the Lions
knew they were a little bit sin at that position
coming into the season, So you go out, you're bringing
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Marcus Davenport. He of course is injured as well. They
did give a Lee McNeil along that defensive line and extension,
and it'll force the Lion's secondary to kind of basically
mature on the spot. It's a group that has a
little better steeling than what we've seen so far, but
they're still inexperienced. So an interesting chess match, to say
the least, for two teams that would love to have
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the inside track to what has been the most competitive
and most entertaining division in the NFL, at least through
the first six weeks.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
All right now, part of the About the Board podcast,
you break that game down. You got Texans Packers, Jet Steelers,
but of course, everybody's eyes are going to be on
the Chiefs and the forty nine Ers the Souper Bowl rematch.
No trade this week for the Chiefs. They're going into
this game with a bunch of wide receivers. I think
Carlos Carson's the number one guy. How do you see
this one going, Todd?
Speaker 7 (23:10):
You know the problem for the Chiefs is a receiving
corp that was already thin may have to contend with
another injury is Juju Smith. Schuster popped out of the
injury report today tweaking his hamstring, and as we know,
men that are in the twilight of our athletic careers here,
much like Juju is an NFL ide receiver, a tweak
is never a good thing for a player whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
The Chiefs, with.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Extra time to prepair, have been one of the more
difficult outs. And we will see a little bit of
history if Kansas City closes as an underdog for this
game on Sunday. You look at Patrick Mahomes. He's been
favored in thirty two straight regular season games, and the
last time he was a dog, they ended up losing
outright to the Buffalo Bills. So we'll see if brock
Purty can put this Kansas City defense that hasn't faced
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a prolific passing attack in my opinion all season long.
I know people will point to the game against the Bengals,
but since he was down, T Higgins even the game
against the Falcons, land alost a couple of offensive linemen,
so they were a little bit handicapped in that spot.
Fascinating game, but for me, we've seen this before, and
I think the two games earlier in the day are
a little bit more intriguing. Eileen San Francisco, but haven't
gotten to the window yet. Some concerns about the defensive
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injuries for the forty nine ers. As on the all
Hands on Deck to sload on the.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Chiefs, Jason and setting up a question talked about what
you guys have outlined check out the bet the Board podcast.
But we have the two big trades, obviously Buffalo and
New York.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
How much did.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
The acquisitions of those players Cooper and and Adams set
set and change the lines?
Speaker 7 (24:37):
You know, doesn't move the market a ton for their teams,
if anything. The big loser in this entire equation was
the Cleveland Browns, and you saw their game against the
Cincinnati Bengals kind of leak out from four and a
half five out to six. It's a receiving room that
wasn't overly deep. Jerry Judy now has to step into
the number one role, and with Deshaun Watson continuing to struggle,
you wonder where Cleveland goes for offense, even getting Nick
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back on a pitch count this week. For Buffalo, adding
Cooper to the receiver room, in my opinion, gives them
a bona fide number one, a grizzled veteran, which allows
Khalil Shakir to operate as a number two to open
up the middle of the field for Dalton Kincaid and
Buffalo's defense should get healthier in the coming weeks. Now,
for the Jets, I wonder what they do for an
encore if they lose on Sunday Night. Smith, We've already
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seen them fire their coach after they lost in London.
They lost on Monday Night Football to the Bills, so
they trade for a new big piece offensively? Does that
mean if they lose to the Steelers on Sunday that
Wood he opens up his checkbook and gives us on
Reddick whatever he wants, including equity in the franchise to
try and allow the Jets to have a silver lining
for a season that hasn't exactly started out the way
the franchise.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Envision and Jamal Adams got released. No too, No, that's
not bigger than devontee. We're going to get Dak Prescott
in the trade. That's what's going to happen next.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
How do we go bigger? Because we can't blame anybody else.
Let's go bigger. That's kind it.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
I mean, you know, unless Dak Prescott can block along
the offensive line or help contain the edge against the run,
I'm not sure he's what the Jets need. But it
does make for an interesting game on Sunday night because
it's a Jets team trying to figure out their identity
now who has no excuses in terms of their overall weaponry,
and all signs point to them having to contend with
Russell Wilson, who should be as rusty as can be,
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operating behind an offensive line that may only be a
half tick or one tick better than what we saw
on display for the Saints earlier.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Tonight, Dodd, we're watching the NBA preseason mercifully come to
an end. What's the early money looking like in terms
of favorites to hoist the trophy.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
I mean, I don't think it'll shock anybody when we
talk about the teams that are the short shots in
that particular market. And we may have to have Smith
cover his ears here because if odds makers have anything
to say about the NBA Finals you were talking about.
The Knicks is the third favorite on the board. There
is a market discrepancy though, between them and the Celtics
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in the East before you get to the seventy six ers,
and in the West it's almost like Kevin Durant, Russell
Westbrook and James Harden are back downing the Powder Blues
or whatever shade of blues. So really and they call
in Oklahoma City. The Thunder are the second favorite of
most books, priced anywhere from six to one on the
low end upwards of eight. With that youth movement hopefully
taking the next step this season.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
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Speaker 4 (27:27):
Todd is always buddy. Appreciate it, man. We'll talk to
you next week.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
You got it, gentlemen. Good luck to your metropollits, and gentlemen,
have a tremendous weekend.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Thank you man.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Be great brother, you and you need all the help
we can get tomorrow. I think because Game five is
in like an hour and a half, I felt.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Like he really wanted you to feel better. Yeah, no, no,
it's good. He understands. One time friend of the show.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
He recognizes the the rise the lightning kind of factor
that goes into this.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Dodgers winning every game ten to nothing. Oh, let's feel bad.
Let's find out what's trending right now in the wide
world of sports from special deliveries Deve de Seger, who
like Max Munsey, has an update streak of twelve giving
every correct score. You have not missed a score in
twelve consecutive updates.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Really, the streak with Munsey was a lot of walks.
It wasn't like twelve straight homers, So I don't know
what's the equivalent of that, actually.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
But the Dodgers, there's not a lot of games tonight,
so I want well, yeah, exactly, we're not.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
We're just skipping NHL.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
We're skipping the uh Lakers are winning in overtime at Phoenix.
Anthony Davis thirty five.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Let's get okay, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
All right, way to sell that one.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Trying well, maybe not.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Dodgers up three games to one after beating the Mets
in New York again ten to the final.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Do you want to hear all the highlights?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I think I heard all the highlights actually to start
this I was very enjoyable. And musical accompaniment too, Randy Newman,
they want to bring Yeah, thank you very much. The
loss to Jose Kintana and three and a third, five
runs allowed, four walks, show hey Otani with a leadoff
homer and three walks. He scored four times, Mookie bets,
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four hits, four RBIs, including a home run. What happened
with those two at the top of the lineup scoring
seven runs combined had only happened once in a playoff
game since the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
That one time was twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Jeter and a Rod combined to score seven runs in
an ALCS game. We'll get to ALCS in a moment.
But the Mets left twelve on base with runners in
scoring position zero for ten. New York, also on FS
one tomorrow, will be hosting Friday's Game five at five
pm Eastern Time. Pitcher David Peterson going for the Mets.
We assume against Jack Flaherty of la As for the
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AL Championship Series. The Yankees were so close to going
up three games to none. Instead, they give up a
two run homer bottom of the tenth at Cleveland. Guardians
win at seven to five. David Fry the late hero,
the Yankee closer Luke Weaver, who has been so good
the last month and a half since taking over the role.
In the bttom of the ninth, Weaver allowed the tying
to run homer with two outs to pin hitter John
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Kenzie Noel. The Guardians will host again on Friday nights,
and now we know there's a Saturday night Game five
there as well. There was an NFL game such as
it was in New Orleans tonight. The Broncos beat the
Saints thirty three to ten, Saints two to five. This year,
they've lost five in a row. Spencer Rattler was sacked
six times, two fumbles. Saints wide receiver Chris Olave out
(30:26):
tonight with a concussion. Wide receiver Rashid Shahed out for
the year after knee surgery. Today, Taysom Hill tight end
was still out with a rib injury. Derek Carr could
miss another couple of weeks with an oblique injury. There
were two defensive injuries tonight for the Saints as well.
The Titans release safety Jamal Adams as he'd requested. Bill's
running back James Cook practice fully after a toe injury,
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but Buffalo running back Ray Davis was limited with a
calf injury, and for the Browns, running back Nick Chubb
practice fully after last year's knee injuries. Cleveland running back
Jerome fourd did not practice today due to a bad hamstring.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
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Speaker 3 (31:15):
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Speaker 4 (31:24):
City field is empty. Metsl lose to Marrow.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
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Speaker 6 (31:35):
If that does happen, how quickly does it become an
ice skating rink right away? They start flooding the field
as soon as the game shows it's done. Yeah, Mookie
BET's doing postgame interviews on the on the set. Hey,
they're just jackling out, They're just filling it. Here's your
galoshes if you're gonna sit here wall. Did you hear
what he said about Freddie Freeman? By the way, well controversial.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
H We'll have more on that story coming up in
a few minutes. The Dodgers are up three games to
one over the Mets. But oh, by the way, it's
hard to lot love sports and not love what It's
hard to love sports and not love what we saw
tonight between the Guardians and the Indians, the Guardians and
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the Yankees. Yankees up two games to none, one strike
away from going up three games to none. The Guardians
had a runner on second with two out.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
They had had the leadoff.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Runner eras in a double play. It was over and
everybody's ri riding The headline of Yankees head of the
World Series and the Guardians. Oh, it's gonna be a
good run. But the Yankees gonna wind up with a sweep.
You want to sweep so you can rest all your players.
This is what we're going to do. We're very excited
about it. Luke Weaver and Clay Holmes, they're gonna be
able to figure.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
This thing out. The end, sure knocking out.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Except for one thing. Big Christmas had something to say
about it. One strike away from defeat, and this happened.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
Away twa one.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
John Chency, No, well there was Big Christmas, no weel
with a home running, no doubt about it, to tie
the game at five Guardians Radio Network. It was stunning.
It was severe. The crowd goes absolutely ballistic, and you think, wow,
look what happened. Well, the egg you'll get it together.
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They'll find this way in extra innings. Okay, Well they
don't score on the top of the tenth, bottom of
the tenth. This happens.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Swing on hit high, hit deep to left deer.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
She goes.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Old, look off.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
To run home run to the play Cherson left by
David Fried and the magical twenty twenty four season. It's
not done by any means will Blay with a seven.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
To five win.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Uh two pinch hitters who came entered the game late,
Noel with a home run to tie. David Fry also
had the big home run late against the Tigers in
the previous series. He hits a walk off to win
first walk off Yankees over the Indian since Willie mays
Hayes made it all the way around second on the
Tom Berenger bunt down the third base line against the Yankees,
Pete Hookovich didn't get the ball home in.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Down well, he couldn't move off the mound. No, it
was tough. It was tough.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
And Willie mays Haes that great slide all the way through,
just the toe dragon over the plate.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Well, they dragged on him early in training camp and
it paid off.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, it really had that burst nailing all
the gloves to the wall for the Stars.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Now, this is what is maddening about this, because yes,
it's a huge win for the Guardians and the series
was over and now they have hope coming into Game four, right,
Game four, Game five, at the chance the Yankees are
still going to win the series, right, and that this
is the maddening part is the Yankees have played alternately
loose and sloppy the entire playoff. You watch them run
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the bases horrendously. They had it tonight in the first inning,
and they find a way to blow leads, and they
find a way to not play well. And in the end,
what do we see. The Yankees win the Al East,
they win their first round of the playoff. They're gonna
beat the Guardians and go on. This is what the
Yankees do, and it's maddening that they can play this
sloppy and still be a team that is two wins
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away and is going to wind up beating the Guardians. Look,
the Guardians needed to walk up. Basically needed one hit.
You need a big home run of the ninth inning
to tie the game, need a walk off hit just
to make this a series. The Yankees are still the
better team. And what we said after the first round
of the playoffs goes when the Astros and Orioles got
knocked out of the playoffs, it was the Yankees to
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get to the World Series or it's an epic fail.
Congratulations to a Rod and everybody else who came up
with that. Like two days ago, we told you this
like ten days ago. Hey, and the Yankees don't make it,
They'll never make the World Series. This is their time
to do it. Information is free. All we can do
is say things. And that's kind of where it's at.
Because they're playing two teams in the Royals and the
Guardians now that don't quite match up to them. And
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even though it's a very emotional win for the Guardians
tonight and things were great, hey, look at this. They
got new life now going into tomorrow, the Yankees are
still going to run the bases horribly and play loose
defensively in the bullpen's still gonna be leaky, and they're
still going to win that. I'm the Mets misplay it,
but they bobble a ball for a half second. The
Dodgers scored three runs. So I can't stand that that
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the Yankees can run the bases like they don't even
know what's going on, like they're running the bases backwards,
and it's we're still gonna wind up winning games. Yes,
it's very it's very frustrating, very frustrating.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Just been waiting. It's been bottled up all night. Y.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
We watched the final several innings together waiting to get
onto the show all right, to come into the studio,
and then it finished on our watch, and You've been
very calm, very collected. I'm trying to, you know, give
give America the therapy session that you need, because you
need to let it out, man, and maybe through the
Yankees and your whole idea of yeah, they've left it
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on the table, and yeah it's the and the Mets
can't make the same mistakes.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
You also can't walk through frustrated. But for the you know,
you walk seven or ten guys in the game and
they make you pay. But it was just funny listen
to Sterly right because he had the great.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Call yesterday, run the bases like drunks, and then you
have the situation in the first and it was almost
like he was gonna throw something and walk off like
he was so angry.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
It's like, we're doing this again.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
We're doing this again. It's so frustrating watching the Yankees
do this and still find a way. Now, it does
help when Judge and Stanton hit home runs in every
game that but they didn't need that to get get
their side of things right. So you know, the door
is open Louis Hill takes the Hill tomorrow fifteen and seven.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Three five e R.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
He's gettible. Gettible went through some downslides. I'm sure the
Yankees will win tomorrow and it's gonna be Oh look,
I don't know. We're still we're just finding it. It's
like nothing's going to stop the Yankee Dodger World Series.
Nothing's gonna stop that. Nothing's gonna stop. Everybody wants nice things.
We're gonna get the highest rated World Series in the
history of the game. Gravitational forces are just pulling it
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that way.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
That's what Yankees.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Yes, that's that's how it's gonna go. The Yankees can
play crappy and still win. The Dodgers can decide, oh,
we're gonna start playing in the middle of the first round,
and there we go.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
I'll fight you're dad. Right now, we got more
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Baseball and a big hot take coming off of Thursday
Night Football that's coming up next Fox