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The Padres have the Dodgers one game away from elimination.
They hold on a six ' five lead in the
third inning. Is a six ' five victory, and now
the Dodgers could be one game away from answering a
lot of question. Boy joining us now I'm a hot life.
More on this series, Mets Phillies. He's actually covering the
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Yankees and the Royals. Right now, he's on Twitter at
John Morosi MLB Network. Inside are extraordinaire John Paul MOROSSI.
What's happening, buddy? How are you happy?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Postseason?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
My friends?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Greetings from the great city of KCMO. We're here for
the Yankees and Royals tomorrow. But I was certainly keeping
a very close eye on the Dodgers and Friars tonight.
And I don't know. There might be a storyline or
two in that series maybe. I mean, it's kind of
a you know, it's been kind of a boring series, right,
nothing going on, clearly quiet, I'll tell you this. And
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I know there was another series that happened earlier today
as well, in the method Pellities. We'll talk about that
as well. But I'll say this about the Podreys and Dodgers,
Why well, I do not love all of the ancillary
things that have been going on in the series, allegations
of of unprofessional behavior, et cetera. The reality is this,
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I I was as glued to that game. It just
ended in terms of a game that I have not
been broadcasting or had no real connection to personally. I
was as down into that game as I've been to
any game all season long, and I got to admit
some of the some of the soap opera stuff kind
of pulled me in there, guys. So it's a it's
it's actually pretty pretty entertaining to watch.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh, John Paul. It's it's immature, it's petty, it's full
of disrespect, and it's the best rivalry in sports right now.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It's all of those feel that way.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
It's But the thing is, we don't have a lot
of this in baseball, and and we can talk about
why that is. It's probably that's probably a full three
hour podcast at some point about just the differences and
and why baseball is the way that it is. But
it is for the most part a fairly people seem
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to get along pretty well. You see players with hugs
and dapping each other up before the games, and there's
a real fellowship that goes on. I don't think there's
a whole lot of dapping happening with this with these
particular two teams before the games, because it is it
is getting tense, it is getting tight. They don't like
each other, and there's not a whole lot of pairings
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that we see during the course of the season where
they really really overtly dislike each other. That's exactly what's
happening right now between the podre and the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Well, we gotta love a little bit of drama mix
therein JP and and I think everybody watching the game
goes back to Machada on the base paths and really
still looking for further explanation.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Of the letter spirit of the law as related to
base pads.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Because you know, he's running on the infield grass, which
isn't a natural path, right.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Right, it should have an interference And that's that's all
I can say. I mean, it's a judgment call. It's
a difficult call to make in real time. We've obviously
got six umpires on the field for a reason. But
in my in my judgment, that should have been interference
on Matchado. He he clearly the rule is he he
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deviated out of the baseline that he had established. Once
you establish your baseline, you runners. And again all of
this fits under the heading of a judgment call. And
it's a judgment call. It's made at a lightning quick rate,
and it's not reviewable, so it's a heart It is
a hard call to make. I'm not blaming anybody for this.
But I when I'm watching that play and I see
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Manny choose his path and then take a good step
step and a half to the left directly into Freddy's
path of throwing the ball to second base, it's interference.
It's just that's what it is. And uh, some man's
called man's is not. And obviously Manny, I think Manny
got a with one there, And yeah, he sometimes seems
to be in the middle of everything. The Padres won
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the game by a run that was one of the
biggest moments in the game. All of that is absolutely true.
And I do believe that if if that was a
reviewable call, that it would have been called interference, it
would have been a very different baseball game, all right, John.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Paul, I want to bring it back to something we
talked about going into the playoffs, right, because I still
keep thinking about this when I think about the Dodgers
jobs are at stake. Dave Roberts job likely at stake.
Other people's jobs are at steak. They have a lot
of injuries, they don't have a lot of sure things
pitching at all. The fact that Walker Buehler had to
go tonight, and it's an era with six Walker Buehler.
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He threw long toss before the game the other day.
I know they have said it's not going to happen.
But now when you're faced with this reality that you
could be going home again in the first round and
again jobs are at stake, is there no way sho
Hao Tani pitches even a couple of innings or one
inning for the Dodgers, maybe even as an opener tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I don't see it. It's a fair question. I don't
see it. As much as we would love it, as
amazing as it would be, I don't see it happening there.
Because now a month ago, when there were the rumblings
and Dave Roberts said, yeah, you know maybe, and he
kind of raised the possibility. At that point in time,
I thought, oh my gosh, like this is going to happen.
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But now there's with Otani. Everything is so clearly scripted,
planned out by the book, buttoned up for the Dodgers too.
At the outset of this series, have no notion of
him pitching, and then all of a sudden, or at
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least no public acknowledgement, and then all of a sudden
have the switch through at the last possible minute when
they're facing elimination. I I just don't think it's going
to happen. It's everything with him is so carefully crafted
that I would be stunned at this juncture. Now, who knows,
We'll see what Dave Roberts says. I think at the moment,
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it's probably going to be Land and NAK starting with
your season on the line. And I realized Land and
NAC is not showing Otani. But that's where they're at.
And furthermore, I mean, my my honest assessment is this,
if if you need, if you need Otani to save
you in the fourth game that you have played in
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the postseason, because the rest of your pitching plan is
all of a sudden already by the boards and you're
in a complete panic mode four games into the postseason.
My my news flash for you is you're not gonna
win the World Series anyway. Really. I mean, like, if
if they need and if especially if it's two innings. Now,
if he was built up, if he had been doing
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his progression and we knew that he could start and
go six seven innings, it's a little different different story.
But if you're if you're begging for two winnings from
the guy the Savior season in the fourth game of
the postseason, and you've got a three hundred million dollars payroll,
What are you doing? I mean, that's that's and that's
not on Dave Roberts, by the way, Like they're they
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built this roster full of guys who break down, and
that's exactly what has happened. And they are completely and
utterly stuck right now, and it's it is uh uh.
Maybe they'll just respond by spending a whole bunch more
money in the offseason, but I would submit that that's
exactly what's gotten them in this mess to begin with.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Let me shift to the other National League series. My
friend here excited about the baseball results O and defeated
by the you know, coaching change earlier, like yeah, he
was riding a roller coaster of emotions JP. But Mania
comes in gives them the fantastic start. Nola gets bested
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by Pete Alonso, the guy everybody wanted out of town,
and and Grimace is still MVP.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
The big question for Jason Smith is is if if
we are going to see a statue built of Pete
Alonzo before he becomes a free agent and basically saying, Pete,
you can you can leave in free agency, but you're
gonna have to walk by this statue that we are
erecting in your honor for what you're doing here, for
for your great service to the New York Mets. And
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and listen, hey, I'm talking to you from Kansas City.
They even their series at one game at piece yesterday.
Maybe Jason, it's your second chance of twenty fifteen. Maybe
it's your second chance to twenty fifteen without without setspeis
loose without cess, but's losing the ball and the lights
in game one or who whatever that was?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, no, no, no, you just.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, yeah, there's there's no Matt Harvey going on. It's
it's all. It's all good. So so it's a different
a different era, and maybe we're gonna get a Mets
versus Royals World series.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Well look, first of all, yeah, look, Alonzo's great, Lindora
is great. The Grimis statue goes up first. I mean,
let's be on, I heard.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
It took this he took the seven train. Now, oh,
the bestest things happened. Either either Grimace took the seven
train or that was Jason Smith on the seven train
and and you're doing this show remotely from city Field
and it's sound and actually you have brought the tire
Rack dot Com studios with you and put it right
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in the middle of Cityfield, right in Flushing, Queens.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Maybe it was David Stearns. That's how I would call
your roommate, call your college troops.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
How we got to the boat.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Maybe that's how he got to the games. There is grimmat.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I mean, I'll say this, We're all a family here, okay,
justin the two of you. Me, the person on this
phone call right now who lives the closest to the
tire rack dot Com headquarters is me because I've driven
by it many times and it's in the great state
of Indiana.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
JP.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Let's go to the series you're covering talking about the
Yankee and Royals, and while it's not the you know,
big bulletin board stuff for National News of you know,
all everything that went on with the Dodgers, Padres Jess
Chisholm's saying, well they got lucky.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Is that resonating at all locally and having some fun
with that?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
It was this was mentioned as Salvadore Perez today at
the media availability, and he basically said, I've got nothing
to say about that. Next question.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It was, it was.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
It was like a two sentenced response. And and by
the way, I have a rule, and I hope everybody
respects this rule. I will never, ever, ever, ever ever
criticize an athlete for speaking their mind about sports matters.
And I certainly within within the realm of of of
professionalism and good case you want to say the opposition
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got lucky, Hey, that is awesome. It's fun for us,
it's fun for you, it's fun for the other team.
This is sports. It's supposed to be fun. So he
says they got a lot. That's interesting, and thank you
Jazz for saying that, because it's given us plenty good
stuff to talk about. But what I would also say
is this, you lost game two and you won one.
You won game one by a run one, you're probably
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lucky as you're not down zero two if we're being
really honest here, especially when you consider how many hard
at balls they gave up in game one. I mean
that was very nearly. They very nearly lost game one.
So I don't know, this is a very even series.
I think it's gonna go five. I don't see either
team win into in a row here in Kansas City.
But I say, guess Chisholm, thank you for speaking your mind.
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I love it. It gives us good stuff to talk
about on this show and on our TVs broadcast tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
All right, John Paul, we have four games tomorrow. We
got a big day tomorrow, and in play it starts
very early with the Guardians and the Tigers. Give me
your four winners tomorrow. Who wins the four games tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
All right, here we go. I've got Tigers, I've got Royals,
I've got Mets, and I've got Podres. I've got all
I've got a home team winning every game.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Which good thing the White Sox are going to pick?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
It sounds really sounds really chalky and unimaginative. Let me
just tell you it felt great when I was saying it.
It felt really cool. I felt like I was being
a total boss.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Man. I just teams. What was that?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Man? Oh? I mean, I've spent like half my life
in baseball stadium root for the home team.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I guess it's just what because sort.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Of part of my conscientious is now there you go.
So it's just uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You're the guy.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
All I got.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
You're the guy when picking his college basketball bracket has
all the one seeds going to the final four.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, I'm gonna be real. I'm gonna be real bold
here and say that I think the final four it
might be Duke, Duke, North Carolina, Indiana, UH and uc LA.
I mean, like really surprising teams. But no, I'll tell
you that I think that. You know, this postseason, I
know people have had their criticism about it and said, okay,
the top seeds that they sit for too long, Well,
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all of those teams they all won their first game,
right when you think about it, So the Yankees won,
the Guardians won, the Phillies won the first game, right
or am I getting that backwards? Did they won the
first game? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
So I mean yeah, so they all they won. They
all won their games, and so and so the layoff
didn't hurt them. But what what we are dealing with
right now is a very balanced league. Nobody won one
hundred games in the regular season. So the notion that
we were going to see the top seeds all of
a sudden just steamroll through these teams that are playing
hot and won their first round is just not reality.
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So I'm loving it. It's chaotic. I have no idea
what's going to happen, and I'm I'm very much enjoying it.
Except right, I do believe the one thing I am
certain of is the Lions will win their next game.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
He won the fourteen, that's my guy.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
The titles the Lions keep going down. Yeah, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
It never does. Okay, I I think they.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Got they got the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Okay, O, that that's I've heard of them.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Oh good, good, that's a good Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I've heard of them. The Dallas football I say that's
twenty one fourteen and and uh so yeah, and it's
on the road in Dallas. I still think that this
is like uh uh they're they're going to get the
uh like revenge for that bizarre call last year when
when when when the left tackle reported eligible but the
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officials pretended they didn't. They didn't understand what he was saying. Johnson, Yeah,
put ring them on ye Skip, Wasn't those on the
guy's name Skipper? So so yeah, so he's he was?
He reported eligible? They should have let let the play
stand and uh and the lines are gonna get revenge
that on on twenty one to fourteen. I also believe,
by the way I think Michigan does not play this weekend,
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so that I am under no obligation to make a prediction.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
You'll sit. No, you're good, John, Paul, You're good. Man,
you are good. Hammered it all.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Did I not tell you? Didn't I say? I'm I
can't remember now exactly what I said, what prediction I
offer on your show. I think I believe I said
that Michigan was going to lose last weekend and they did.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
No, you are right. No, you've been. You've been. You've
been pretty hot with your picks, even picking against the lines,
been pretty hot.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah. So I mean I'm doing okay. You know, eventually,
maybe I'll branch out in the football. Right now, I
got to keep my focus on the series I'm covered
in Kansas City. I gotta just try to be a
good reporter for Game three. Day to day focus. I've
been listening to all the playoffs cliches, one pitch at
a time, one game at a time. I'm sidelined for
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Game three. I gotta try to master at Game three.
That's That's all I got.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
You will see him tomorrow on TV Yankees and the
Royals alongside Bob Austin, Ron Darling. You want to call
this game, you'll be the Yeah John Paul will be
the guy eating a dinosaur rib in the stands when
they first go to him for information. Good. Yeah, there
you go.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
And if there's a guy that shows up, we're at
a number fifteen jersey from the football team here, and
I'll say, you know what I heard. I think I've
heard of this guy. I believe his dad played baseball. Okay,
I know that about it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
If you interview him ten bucks. If you purposefully mispronounce
his name and you call him Patrick Mhims or something,
just get his name wrong. Just get his name wrong
when you're interviewing him.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I've mispronounced a lot of things in my life. That's
a hard name to mispronounce.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Have fun on the call, butud he We'll talk to
you later on this week.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I appreciate it. We'll talk to you soon, ybody.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
We're here with Patrick Mhims. Mahomes sorry Mahomes. Yes, you
play football of oh in the city.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
How cool is that? I don't know you played in
the same city, Kansas City, Oh. That's great. Yeah, it's great.
You're here. How do you get to fix this office
exit ut out to Fresco exit swollen down? Thanks to
John Paul Morosi, got more baseball on the way, as
well as the nuttiest part of the biggest football story
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Speaker 2 (18:13):
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Speaker 1 (18:24):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon lot fromthtirack dot com Studios. A lot
more baseball coming up in a few minutes. Dave Roberts
already talking about what the Dodgers pitching plan is going
to be for tomorrow. Are they calling up Jesus? Uh No,
the Jesus is gonna Jesus, Jesus gonna pitch. We'll just
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think the warm ups with the ball and doing the
whole thing. Well, but they talk about that motion is
enough to buy you a couple of innings. Yeah, well,
let me they're not gonna catch on. You can go
through it one one through the batting order second time,
they might catch out a bit. Yeah. Yeah, it's like
the whole philosophy of just use your fastball first time
through the order, then you start to give him something
a little different. But look, the biggest story of the
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day in the NFL Robert Sala is fired as Jets
head coach. Jeff Aulbrick defense coordinator is promoted. Look, the
Jets have a lot of issues, and we will we'll
get to the different angles of this and the most
important things. Because like, as a Jets fan, I'm like,
oh boy, when I woke up today and saw my
phone just go like something happened. Oh Solas fired? Okay,
Like people couldn't wait to tell me that Robert Sala
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was fired. Like, no one text me and that. Do
you think I sent you to think of Grimace on
the train?
Speaker 6 (19:37):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
You needed some positivity. Man. Well no, I'm not saying
I was unhappy about it. It was just people, Oh,
you fire, you're a coach. Yeah. Know, actually is a
good thing. They needed to know it is. But it's
that that shock of right now, yeah, I guess what,
you just fired it. They did the right thing right now.
But I mean, this is the part of the day
when I saw it, and I said, really, like, there's
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so much typical Jet stuff with this story. Right, there's
the the part they're part where they talked about in
New York radio that Sala was gonna fire Nathaniel hack
It and until Woody Johnson, Jets owner, decided to fire
Robert Salam. Maybe Aaron Rodgers got involved with this, maybe
he didn't right all these crazy things, and Woody Johnson
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deciding to fire Slam, showing up at his office today
him and his brother to fire him. And this is
the part where I go, oh, come on, man, really
can't can't you just do it the right way? Sala
supposedly wanted to address the team one more time before
he was let go. And sometimes teams let you do it,
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sometimes they don't. And I can see it both ways.
I can see where, hey, you know, Robert's gonna address
a team one more time. You don't know what's gonna
be said. You don't know what the emotion's gonna be like.
If he's not gonna be there anymore. I can understand
you saying no, we'd rather you not reach out to
the guys on your own time. We have to move
forward today because we have a game coming up.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Well, it's like getting fired in radio. You know, you
don't often get to show, you don't get.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
A good bye show. Uh So I I understand that
part of it. But the fact that it was reported
that Salad security escored him out of the premises and
not because and not because he you know, not because
he didn't happen. You know, I know he wasn't arrested,
you know, because it would have been reported today, or
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maybe he was just jets arrested. Jets arrested. Well he
did commit crimes foot football, football crimes, football crimes.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
But yeah, I mean even the escorted by security is
being talking about. It's like, well, whatever this semantics are,
it's still a guy walking into his car.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, I mean you hear escorted by security. Goll was
a guy yelling. Was he causing problems? No, it's just
get out here, Johnson, get out right right there. We're
gonna run stairs at a five p you you coward.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
They're gonna cancel my toothpaste commercial. So, I mean, our
guy Jay Glazer said he got blind sided. It was
like and just coming in for a normal day at work.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
He thought he had more time and it turns out
he didn't, and but to say, but you have to
have security escort, like that's so that's totally jets, Like
do you really need that to happen? Like if he
was yelling at causing I understand, but it's like, okay,
you want to keep an eye on him, obviously, because
here's a guy that you fired and you walking around like,
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what's he gonna went to Egypt? You know, GYP did it?
Most I just kept thinking about that thirty Rock episode
where they brought in Tim Conway to visit, who was
like this old time comedian and then they they just
let him leave and he never left. He was hanging
around walking. What did you do all night? I just
walked around here? Really? Yeah, it's whole bad there, Like
you were supposed to leave like like the day ago. Yeah,
(22:54):
I've just been walking around the last couple of days. So, uh,
the Sandwich girls, So you know, I understand that part
of it, But did you hear Oh you had to
have the guy who scored him out? It's like, really,
I mean you can't. You can't just keep an eye
on I'm gonna go, hey, pack your stuff. You know
that you go like did do the North cameras or whatever?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Fact?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
You know?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
You know that that you know that mitched the security
guard that said good morning to him for the past
three and a half years. Every day is a guy's gout. Hey,
rob Yeah, they asked me to come here and square.
So finish your stuff up. I got a break in
about fifteen minutes. I pack your stuff. Whatever you don't
pack up, we'll send you. Don't worry about it. Do
worry about it now. I listen, don't talk. I'm gonna
put my headphones in. I'm gonna be outside this door.
(23:34):
When you're done, I'll walk you out. Great stuff, Thank you. Oh,
by the way, could you sign this from my kid
before you leave? And sign it Robert sala uh x
n y j HC. So it's like the first autograph
you signed. Have to be in a Jets head coach.
I'm gonna be right outside waiting for because they've never
done this. Man, that's it? Like that you got you guys?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Lou Holtz was the last guy fired in season Well,
look and and and what is that? Seventy six, seventy
seventy five, seventy sixty has something like that. Uh, look
I I and he didn't hire Sala. Remember it was
when he decided, oh, hey, President Trump is making the
ambassador to England. I'm gonna go there for four years,
and my brother's gonna run the team. Oh that's great,
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We're just gonna give it to somebody. Okay, he's gonna run.
So he hired Robert Sala, and Sala and Salad goes
and now I'm gonna come down. I'm gonna come with
my brother because maybe you don't know who I am,
but I'm gonna come down with my brother. We're gonna
let you go. So him and his brother walked into
Sala's office and fired him. It's I mean, this is
how the Jets do things right. Oh we're gonna have
We're gonna scort you out.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Of the prevate.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Come on, what are you doing now? And the thing
is is that like stuff like this covers up the
fact that the Jets needed to do this. They needed
to do this because all I've seen today is all
the Jets are a tire fire. How are you blaming
Robert Sala when when Aaron Rodgers is not any good?
How do you do? Yes, there's a lot of blame
to go around. No one man can ruin the Jets
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the way they've been ruined the last few years. Now,
everybody gets slice of the bite. Man, he has the
biggest slice of the pie because he's the head coach.
And when there's a problem, but obvious problem between your
head coach and your quarterback, guess who's gonna win that battle.
They gave Aaron Rodgers fifty million dollars come in and
save the team. And as time has gone on the
last few weeks, Robert Sala, his presence and his influence
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on the team has seemed to just diminish with every
passing day, and even the player said there seemed that
there was a weird vibe around the team the last
few days. Look, you had Sala say, hey, Rogers absence
is an excuse, like you really have to save face
and say that you have to cause that thing. Oh,
maybe you have a cadence issue. Wait, wait, there's no
cadence issue. Aaron Rodgers been calling cadence that way for
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the for twenty years. So you knew that there was something,
and you knew he was gonna lose. He's the head coach,
and it wasn't gonna get any better. The Jets needed
a fresh start. Yes, they are still an absolute dumpster fire.
The organization is a dumpster fire. I'm not saying it's not.
And there's plenty of blame to go around, but the
Jets needed to do this today, and that's getting lost
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in the Oh look at the Jets. Oh they thought
they was so good that the fire there a coach.
That's embarrassing. I don't understand. Like anybody who says they
don't understand, you're just stupid. Like when when you watch
a team play like that, you know that, hey, the
head coach is having problems communicating with the team when
the players say, hey, uh, there needs to be more accountability,
that's that's an indictment of the head coach. And I've
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told you for a long time now. That's why I
say we're ahead of the curve, because we are. For
a long time. I've told you Robert Salah is not
a good head coach. He is a glorified defensive coordinator.
He has not been able to make the offense any
good in three and a half years. He is an
inconsistent personality on the sideline. When the game's going well,
he's jumping around and smiling and hugging players when it's not.
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He's sullen and Sully see he's Sully reaching ration to
the scare floor. He's sullen, and he and he and
he and he looks poudy And you need to be
the same guy add all times. And when you throw
all this and you see yet more games where the
same things that have happened for three years are still happening.
Which are they start slow, and they commit a lot
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of penalties and it's undisciplined penalties that they shouldn't still
be committing. They're committing them. So okay, that's on the
head coach. If you're still doing those things that you
shouldn't be doing, that's on the coaching staff. They can't
get that through to you. So guess what, that's the
head coach. The Jets needed to do this if they
were going to try to save their season. Now, whether
they do it, whether this saves the season or not,
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it depends on Aaron Rodgers. But they needed to do
this today. Yes, it seems like you're a dumpster fire,
but we have seen but we see teams higher and
fire coordinators in season and they make big runs. Look
at the Bills did last year, right, they had that
huge run. So this has happened. The Jets want to
save the season. They don't want to wait, they don't
want to postpone the future. So they decide, let's do
it now. Let's do it when we have a little
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bit of a longer week to go into Monday night
against the Bills, rather than if they have a really
bad night against the Bills on Monday. They're firing Robert
Sala on Tuesday. It's a new regime on Wednesday and
they have to play on Sunday and suddenly it's a
short week, right, I told you last night. Next Monday
was high noon for Robert Sala and potentially Nathaniel Hackett.
It came early, right, high noon came early. They fired
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Robert Sala today, So you know, I told you was coming.
It was just gonna be another bad game. Wasn't gonna happen?
And I love the Jets had the guts because they
didn't postpone the future. They knew they needed to change
and they needed to make this work. There's still a
dumpster fire that is still things that that dumpster is
still on fire. There is still stuff still, but it does.
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But both things can be true. You can be a
dumpster fire and you can make the move that you
need to for the future and the present of your organization.
And that's the Jets, and I'm not defending them just
because they're my team. Is saying, hey, stuff wasn't going well.
There was no sense that he was gonna suddenly get
it and things were gonna change. The energy seemed bad.
And when you have three weeks in a row your
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quarterback seeming ly at odds with your head coach. Now
other players are seeming leot odds to your head coach,
you know he's lost the team, and you make the
move you had to make.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
But that's a thing with Salah and all of this
that you know outside looking in, and again we don't
know the inner workings, but we've seen enough.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
We've the insiders.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
The people that are around and talking to these guys
in the New York, New Jersey area, they paid a.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Pretty good picture.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Is that you had a guy who last year had
some of the authority taken away from Aaron Rodgers comes in.
Nathaniel Hackett is your eu OC all of that, so
you recognize it and you've got to come to grips
with that, right that that is now part of the
power structure of the team you are the head coach of.
So some of your autonomy has already been taken away.
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And you come into the next year and you actually
have Aaron Rodgers at your disposal and you've got to
figure out how to work with him.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Clearly that did not happen, and doing the the.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Stuff in training camp about the Egypt trip and the
unexcused like that, that's it, Like that's enough of a rift.
If we know anything about Aaron Rodgers, he can hold
a grudge as well as sure right, he remembers every slight,
every article, every tweet, everything his family may have said,
you know, anonymously to somebody. People he's been you know,
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friends with whatever, he'll cut you off, like that's part
of the myth that is Aaron Rodgers. So if you're
in a relationship with him work wise, and now he
can't trust you because you're gonna go yap in front
of a microphone, guess what. That's not getting resolved in
a week or two. And so when it goes bad
as it was going bad, as badly and poorly as
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Rogers has played at times, because he was awful on Sunday.
There's there's no two ways about it. Now, maybe Lazard
catches that ball that hits him in the hand, we
don't get the Van Gankle.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
We got the Van Gankle.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
And you move forward and we talk about timing, we
talk about pre snap penalties, all of those things. His
unwillingness to stand in the pocket and let a play develop.
All of those things are not suddenly going to be fixed.
But what you can do is take the angst out
of the building and whatever that animus is. Because guess
what the players are side with Rogers, you know, any
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guy that's the length of time.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
The Jets have a lot of problems. They took care
of a big one today. It's not solving everything. That's
not the main take care of that. What's the main one?
I mean their quarterback. They could have taken him out back.
Wow wow, so soon, so soon, Wow. He was calling
for the musquette for soon. He sucked eight games for
you already. There was also only played five, five and
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BD games for snaps. Tire fire and doing the right
thing they can exist at the same time. Speaking of
tire fires. Oh, I'm sorry, let's just go to Brian Fenley. Wow,
find out what's trending in the wide world. It's more,
I'll tell you what's trending.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
They are going bonkers in San Diego because the Padres
are one game away from eliminating the Dodgers from the
playoffs for the second time in three years.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
What little brother are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (32:03):
The Padres moving into Game four of the NLDS tomorrow,
San Diego winning tonight in Game three, six to five,
the Pods scoring six runs in that second inning, all
of their offense coming in the second inning. Walker Buehler
got rocked in the second, giving up those six runs,
including a two run home run from Fernando Tanties Junior.
The Dodgers continue to struggle in postseason games away from home.
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They have lost now seven straight playoff games not at
Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Robert Swarez picks up the save for.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
San Diego, a five out save, and San Diego will
look to finish this thing off in four games, with
the Game four coming up at nine Eastern time. By
the way, Dave Roberts, the Dodgers manager, said that it's
going to be a bullpen game for his pitching in
Game four, and Dylan sees on quick rest a short rest,
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he will be the starting pitcher for San Diego in
this much anticipated game. A.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Game four is coming up as.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Well for the Mets and Phillies in their NLDS matchup
after the Mets closeline the Phillies seven to two in
a Game three, and yes, they are going to be
playing their Game four tomorrow in New York at just
after five pm Eastern time. Also to mention the NHL
regular season happening now. In our third and final game
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is still going on and it involves the first ever
game for the upstart Utah Hockey Club. It's their first
game as a franchise and they're leading three to two
against the Blackhawks in Salt Lake City late in the
third period. Earlier, the Blues over the Kraken three to two,
and the Panthers take care of business six to four
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against the Bruins. As you guys were talking about earlier,
the Jets firing their head coach Robert.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Sala, So there is that as well. And with that, guys,
let me get it back over to you.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
I know we're up against it just a little bit
so I will fire the fast to Jason Smith and
Mike Harmon and I'm fining strikes just like Dylan Cees
Tomorrow Game four.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
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Studios coming up next. Wait till we tell you the
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in the MLB Playoffs. That's next, right here, Jason to
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Speaker 2 (34:25):
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
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Padres take a two game to one lead in the
best of five over the Dodgers. They win tonight six '
five at a six to one lead in the third.
Ta Oscar Hernandez grand Slam made it six to five
in the third.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
That is it.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
No more runs all the rest of the way. The
final six innings, the Padres one game away from closing
out the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
The most shocking turn of events in that game, we
were waiting for a thirteen to twelve Well, we got
some position players trying to fill out towards the end. Instead,
you saw both King and Buehler battle after their early struggles,
and the relievers getting the job done bad situations but
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coming up with the big pitch when they needed them.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
So what are we seeing for tomorrow? And whose job
is on the line? The Padres we already know they're
gonna come back with Dylan Cees tomorrow for the Dodgers.
Is it going to be Sho Heeo Tani?
Speaker 5 (35:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Is it gonna be Sandy Kofax? Maybe, because, as Dave
Roberts said a few moments ago, ah yeah, everybody's got
to be available.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
I think as far as pitching plans, it's, you know,
essentially all hands on deck. It's probably it's a bullpen game.
I see one of our relievers starting sort of talk
through it and knowing we've got Jack and Yamamoto for
potential Game five.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Just think about everything the Dodgers have done in the
off season, all the money they spent on Otani and
Yamamoto and Hernandez and and Glass now and here they
are in a must win game that is probably going
to determine Dave roberts fate, and it's yeah, we're rolling out.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
A bullpen game seventeen different starters this year, right, all
the money spent. I mean, at least you could take
some solace in that you made a ton of money
off with Tani this year because he's only made two
million from you. That is that how it works. Raked
in a lot of cash. But yeah, I just uh,
I know.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
For Dodger fans, and we've got a few of them,
are our.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Guy Justin Frosty, our executive producer, and you know what
a lot of pace pitching you got, you got any
arm strength ready for it? You know, one or two
Badger or something like, Yeah, no, that's it, the eaphest pitch.
And then just hope guys overswing.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
I guess, I mean, really, they spend a billion dollars
on these guys, and we're gonna have a bullpen game
in the biggest game because quite honestly, look, I know
we've talked about it. We've talked around a little bit
because it was let's see how things go in the playoffs.
If the Dodgers go out in the first round. Again,
Dave Roberts is not coming back as Dodger manager. It's
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not happening. At some point, there needs to be some
kind of change, needs to be some kind of I
don't want to say there needs to be somebody responsible,
But the Dodgers spent all kinds of money, They've they've
brought in all kinds of players, and yes, does Roberts
start to execute what the front office wants a time
of time. Yeah, but still you need to be able
to show that, hey, there's there's gonna be some kind
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of consequences when you underachieve and to have this level
of excellence the Dodgers have had for the better part
of the past decade, and you get to the playoffs
and they still fall short. They fall short to teams
who are who are playing better, to teams that are
more emotionally ready for these games. Like, of all the
things that are at stake tomorrow, like Dave Roberts' job
is at the top of that list. Another year of
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a first round exit, especially after spending a billion dollars, Yeah,
somebody's gonna have to be the one that gets the
responsibility that there is deemed responsible for it, and it's
gonna be Dave Roberts.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Well, because the other part that needs to be evaluated.
And I don't disagree with you at all. You know,
we certainly have seen this in sports, and look, the
Dodgers got the World Series win.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Some discount it.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Everybody had played by the same rules and they were
able to walk away with a World Series title during
the COVID years, So get over it. But the fact
of the matter is that you've had these this many
bites of the apple. It goes back to remember when
the Bengals finally got out of being the Bungles, when
when you had Marvin Lewis there. Well, you had a
lot of years where you made the playoffs and you
didn't get over right, but you had good rosters, good teams.
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With Dave Roberts, you're kind of in that same boat.
But I have to cast an eye, like we did
with the Ravens and like we did with the Chargers,
of what's going on in the training room. What what
is this that you're every year we're having this overwhelming
number of pitchers get hurt. Because other teams suffer injuries,
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they don't suffer injuries like this, where it's a litany
of guys and a veritable parade to the IL.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
It's it's a it's something that. Look, the Mets went
through that for a while. Like how all the Mets
arms getting hurt. Yeah, he's like, I'll do whatever the
Mets want.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Me to do.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Great, wanted you to be better in twenty fifteen. But uh,
but like the look it happened the Mets from all
time and now the Mets put in this pitching lab.
David starts, why he's the best executive in baseball. David
certain they put in this pitching lab. Things are great,
but like something needs to happen. There can't just be
another year, Well next year for the Dodgers spending a
billion dollars in salary, and what's the one change that
you're gonna make that it's going to change the energy
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of the team because the players aren't change. Well, you'll
get Grimace. You know it could be that. Oh if
it could be Matt Cheese. We're in I'm telling you,
Dave Roberts jobs at stake tomorrow for the Dodger. Coming
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