October 12, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon react to the Padres side of things with how embarrasing they played in the final two games.
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Happy football Friday night, obviously a big baseball night as well,
with the Dodgers going to the NLCS. We'll have some
big college football stories coming up. In a few minutes,
we'll pick the game of the week and give you
a big bold prediction about the team we'll all be
talking about on Monday. But we watched the Dodgers tried
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out thirteen pitchers in the last two games against the
San Diego Padres, and the Padres couldn't dent the scoreboard
off of any of them. It got to the point
where I think they could have brought Jimmy Kimmel or
Mary Hart or Flee out of the stands and they
still would have had a scoreless in and go up
against the Padres. Maybe a walk, but they probably gotta
pop up to end the inning. The Dodgers pitching could
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do no wrong against the Padres, and it really is
something to go thirteen for thirteen with pitchers. Eight believers
pitch in Game four and you had five pitchers go tonight,
Yamamoto goes five innings. It was an incredible last couple
of games for the Dodgers who win this series. But look, Mike,
I gotta be honest. Okay, this was not the same
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Padre team that was playing just two games ago. Oh no.
This is this is where you run into the dangers
of a and having that be a weapon that carries you. Right.
Two years ago, when the Padres went all out right
and they spent money and they gave to Tea saw
that cash and they got Machado and the things. All
these things have been going on in the last few years. Hey,
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it suddenly became it's on older brother. Hey, here we
go in Padres Dodgers became the best rivalry in all
of baseball. And it was there for Game one when
the Padres crushed the Dodgers and they had everything going
for them, right. We talked about it at the time. Hey,
the Padres, they know exactly how to get in the Dodgers'
heads and get under their skin, and they're doing it.
I feel like Max Munsey of the Dodgers listened to
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the show because he did a press conference after Game three, say, hey,
they like getting under our skin. We can't let that happen. Hey, thanks, guys.
Whatever you want to pay me for motivational talk, I'll
take it. But that's what the Padres did. And it's
not a strategy that you can spend through one hundred
and sixty two games, but it certainly is something you
can use in the playoffs. Look, everybody's looking for their
thing to hang on to, right. The Mets have Grimace
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and the Hawk to a girl and OMG, and everybody's
got their thing. Right. The Padres thing is emotion and
yacking it up and having fun in front of the
Dodger fans. It's Fernando Tatiz Junior wriggling his hips at
the fans and pro far having fun with the crowd
and left field thinking he didn't snag a home run.
When he did, then guys are getting thrown at and
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people are upset. The Padres did a great job of that,
and they rode that momentum, and they rode that emotion.
And that was not the same team that took the
field the last two days the last year. Not not
even close. They looked like they were going through the
motions from the third inning on of Game four, and
tonight didn't look like they were in the game at all. Now, yes,
a lot of credit to Yamamoto who pitched well. Darvish
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pitch really well. He made two mistakes, and the Dodgers'
pitching staff was terrific. But I mean, just think about it.
Is it really all Dodgers when thirteen they used thirteen
pitchers and you can't hit any of them, You can't
dent the board once off of any of them. Not
only that, how many times did you ever really threaten
where it felt like you were going to score a
run and Padres couldn't even do that. It's like they
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were zombies walking around those last two games. And I
couldn't believe it. After the first three games full of
fire and brimstone and lightnings coming out of our hands,
we want to just electrocute the Dodgers and pick them
up and throw them down the shaft like the end
of Return of the Jedi. And Game four. In Game
five was just yeah, we're going up, we're hitting, We're
going back to the bench, like I didn't see anything. Look,
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what do I know about baseball, right? But I didn't
see any sort of emotion. I didn't see any sort
of Hey, let's have some sense of real urgency here.
I didn't see it in Game four, And wow, did
I see less of that in Game five? You know,
they almost looked like in Game five when the Mets
beat the Braves in the big double head of the
first game when Dor it's the home run of the
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ninth inning and they clinch a playoff berth, and they
are already on the plane to Milwaukee for the first
round of the playoffs, and the second game of the
double header that the Braves needed to win to make
the playoffs, the Mets played all most of their B
players and it was just there. I mean, the Mets
had no life at all. That's kind of what it
looked like watching the Padres, like a team that we
have no life. The season's over and we're punching a
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time clock until until it ends. Yes, you can talk
about the Dodgers pitching being really good, and it was,
but in thirteen innings, every single Dodger reliever had his
a game. Come on, man, this is a Dodger team
that lost, a Padre team that lost so much of
its mojo after Game three. I don't know what happened.
I don't know where it went. But when you rely
on that and that's a big weapon for you and
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that deserts you, you get knights like you get the
last two days for the San Diego Padres. This was
not that team, all right, the last two days. This
was not the team we saw over the course of
the last couple of months steaming their way to a
playoff berth the number one wildcard, the team we saw
the first three games against the Dodgers. This was not
that team. I don't know where they went, but boy
was that embarrassing. That this was the effort they gave
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the last two games, their season on the line, they
could beat the Dodgers, knock them out of the playoffs,
and they show up dead from the neck up. I'm
so embarrassed for the Padres because they just came up,
swung the bats, went back to the bench, came up
so on the bats back to the bench. That was
it for two straight games. That is unforgivable.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, it seemed like after the Game three that they
just felt, well, we're we're now. Uh, it's inevitable, right,
it's the Thanos snap. We joke about it all the time,
is that you had you built that six, six run
lead right massive inning, and then Dodger storm right back,
but just ever so close, and the game after the
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third inning is a bunch of zeros and they walk
away with the w and it seems that, all right,
you got your challenge from the Dodgers. It wasn't enough,
so they'll go softly into the good night instead. You know,
you're looking at a different iteration because part of the
emotion that they were running with was you know, a rise,
you know, going to the batting title Tatis Junior pro
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far and obviously Jackson, Jackson, Merrill, the new star with
Manny Mitchilah, like you've got stars all around, But it was, hey,
Soda left, We're doing this without him, right, So some
of it was you know, we're still here. He's off
doing what he's doing, and we added to the bullpen
at the trade deadline. All of this it built towards
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this big moment and that Game three where Dodgers gave
it their best shot and it wasn't enough, right, A
lot of histrionics, a lot of celebration, and then Game
four comes and you get the bullpen game, and what
did you get from a bunch of the padres? After that,
it's like, well, I don't really like the bullpen games.
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I don't really like that, right, because you don't see
the same guy four times, right, That's the whole thing
with where we are in baseball as a whole. You're
not seeing a guy a third time through a lineup
unless you're absolutely dealing and you're playing with the Hey,
I'm a bleeping legend here, skip, I'm going back out
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there for another turn.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You come get me if you need to.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
But I'm not sitting down just because the math says
that I shouldn't face this guy a third time. No,
most guys are seeding the ball and they go and
they sit their ass down, and that's.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The end of it. And what you saw.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
In that game for were a bunch of listless, lifeless
at bets, no threats, no opportunity, Dodgers, run away and hide,
and you get your six nil win using eight relievers,
because nobody ever got comfortable at the plate, nobody ever. Look,
I know you hate bunting. You know at some point,
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try a damn bunt. Go find a Barry Bond suit
of armor and get up there and take one for
the team on something inside.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
They did none of it.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And then tonight, great effort from darviish the two mistakes,
he goes six and two thirds gives up to earn.
In most baseball games, you're feeling pretty good. Well not tonight.
Yamamoto gives you five strong, which is an inning more
than I think Dave Roberts could have ever hoped for. Right,
I think he was saying, if I can get four
out of him, if I can get four, And when
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he went out for the fifth fight, Oh look at you, Dave,
living dangerously, Look at you crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
He was dying to go out there and get him earlier.
I want to go to the bullpen now, Yeah, but
he's pitching. Really, they like had to hold him back
to running out to look at him twitch, pluck at
his hand. It's twitch and he wants to make that call.
But he didn't because the big thing with Yamamoto start
is that it wasn't like he was mowing him down
in terms of, Hey, his stuff is just electric and
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these guys are all swinging it with and no.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
They were putting the ball in play. They just didn't
put it anywhere of substance. And he got great efforts
from his defense. You go to Phillips, who gives you
five outs, three strikeouts, sixteen strikes and his twenty five pitches,
then to Vessia, on to Kopec and trying and comes
in to finish it off. Uh you look at the
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the efforts. Vesia right gets his third of an inning
six pitches, Kopec comes in nine pitch inning.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Because that's the other thing. I mean, you're not getting
any quality at bats. You're not know how many times
did Maddy Machado had two flyouts to the warning track
and write his first two times up. How many pitches
did he see in those two at bats? Three? Yeah?
Like really, like, like what are you doing? You have
to make Yamamoto work. This is a guy that hasn't
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made it out of the fourth inning in months. I mean,
that's it. It's a bit, That's what I mean. The
approach by the Padres were bad, the seeing them swing free,
swinging way too early in the count. I did not
see any grinding of at bats, which you need to
do when you can tell, hey, this is gonna be
a game where one or two runs is gonna be
the difference. There was none of that. There was just
we're going up swinging, We're going home and go back.
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That's going the way without a plan, without anything more
than hey, I'm just gonna do my thing and see
how it goes that.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
That's not how you score runs in the postseason. Ye
just go back to the third inning. Cronin North flies out,
Hygashioka gives them a base hit, arise with the single,
so first and second, one out, and then Tatis Junior
gets up there thinking his eyes are big and wide,
I'm gonna make the difference, and he grounds into a
double play, just tops it. Third second, first done, and
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that was the only thread that was the only at
bat with a runner on in scoring position for the
Padres tonight just another master works from the Dodgers and
advance to play your mets on Sunday. But yeah, very
different approach. And you know, we always have joked the
you know how raucous guys get may go back to
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Patrick Mahomes even I know the promos and we talked
about it the other day, how chesty he was with
the royals and everything, and it's one of those things
we had in our house of you know, you only
sing when you're winning. Awful quiet when things start to
get even out or momentum swings, or or you're down.
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You know how you're sitting on your hand and your
voice can't be heard. But when you're winning, you're allowed
in the ass. And that's exactly what Padres fans were
and the Padres players. I almost put up the appropriate
ad that keeps showing up. You know who mister cartoon is.
They had a beer ad around him artist, right, he
comes from the streets and all this stuff. He's got
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a line of clown masks that's affiliated with MLB. I
almost put it up there, But yeah, just verbalize it here,
clown mask man.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Well look and I'll tell you what's even worse. Right,
And you think about this for the Padres, how bad
it was the fact not only could you not score
off of any of their pictures, you're at bats were bad.
Some pictures I get if you can't hit a couple
of guys, but sure, thirteen is just way too many.
But when you think about it from this, why in
the playoffs do bullpens implode more? Well, think about it
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like this. In the regular season, you play a three
game series against the team, and you move on, and
you know, no one, no one does anything more than
what the plan is. Hey, you're gonna go an inning.
You're gonna go in inning. Here, you see it. You
see bullpens for three days, right, and then you go on.
You're into a new set of teams, new city, do
everything else, probably only see the guy won some of
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the series. This is now you are seeing some of
these relievers three and sometimes four times in this series.
By the time you get to game five. This is
where any advantage they have is gone, because hey, if
they were better pictures, they'd be starting pitchers. There's the
reason why they're at the bullpen. I can give you
good innings for a very short amount of time. My
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stuff is limited, but I can get you some outs
here over an inning or so. When you see the
same pictures now for three and four times in a series,
that advantage goes out the window. This is why you
get You got teams at the end of series trying
to put there a bullpen together with with tape. Right,
Like Edwin Diaz walked the first two guys in ninth
inn against the Phillies. Guess what Ryan Stanek was up
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to come in for d Az if he put another
guy on in the clinching game against the Phillies, because
he was a guy that thrown the best so far
and he only pitched well, he only pitched a couple
of times. Hey, we got to get him in there.
Because Diaz, they've seen him, they've knocked him around. We
don't know if he really has it. By the time
you get that deep in the series, you should be
thumping some of those pitchers out of the ball, but
not everyone, because still great pitchers are going to get
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guys out and baseball is built on failure. So the
great pitcher are going to do it. But every guy
that comes in, especially after you see them as much
as you have, if you have a disciplined approach to
add bats like it should be during the playoffs. This
should equal runs and doesn't need to be nine to eight,
but certainly it can be four to three, certainly, but
a couple of runs on the board, but no runs
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in eighteen innings and thirteen pitchers for the Dodgers. That's
so embarrassing for the Padres.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Well, I'm looking at you know, just kind of going
through the track history, right, your game logs of these guys.
Copig pitched three times in this series innings trying in
his last four outings came against the Padres, saw him
twice in this series, and then he saw him in
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that series that they had in the final week of
the season back on September twenty fifth, So I mean,
familiarities should have come into play.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Didn't matter.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Dodgers came up and owned him. They and they sent
little brother back home. A lot of saltiness in San
Diego tonight.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
We had them and we let them off the It's
just so embarrassing. It's so embarrassing for the Padres that
they this was their effort the last couple of nights, Wow,
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not at the level where we pay attention to it.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
All right, uh, and we'll be talking about shockingly coming
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We're gonna win four games. Four, Get play four, Get
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Speaker 3 (16:47):
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Speaker 1 (16:51):
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon New live from the tire rack dot
Com Studios. What more Baseball on the way? The NLCS
is set waiting for Game five between the Tigers and
the Guardians tomorrow, and I ain't got to be honest,
Mike Harmon. I'm a little nervous here because I'm like, Okay,
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if the Mets lose to the Dodgers, I gotta walk
around to La knowing that happened. If they beat the Dodger,
bill lose to the Yankees, that's the worst of all
possible outcomes. If they beat the Dodgers and lose to
the Tigers, I can ever go back to Detroit. My
wife's family, forget. So there's only one choice the Mets have.
When the whole damn thing. That's where I am right now.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Just wait, holy choice.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
So when the whole damn thing, that's all. Oh, the
choice we have, that's truly all you got. Yep, that's
it man.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
No, Look, it's a it's a world of misery for
you because around the office you'll never hear the end
of it. Frostburg will be insufferable. The Tigers thing, I
mean the family. Yeah, no, that's bad.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah no, I can't. I can't. Are you kidding? I'll
never go back. And because this is your wife on
board this Tiger's thing. No, she's she's she's more happier
for me. She's like, hey, she's with me. But then
obviously you know, hey she'll be happy for her family.
But no, she's with me on this.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
No, I mean because day to day, I mean your
mental health. You know you ride the lightning.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
No with you you No, No, No, here's what it is.
You know what this is? What it is? You know
what I remember I remember, I think it was during
the Olympics. This is probably about ten or twelve years
ago when I think Gretzki was. Was Gretzky coaching? Was
he the GM of the Canadian Olympic team? Right? Okay?
And they wound up winning, you know, they buried the
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looney in the ice and they dug it up at
the end and Canada won. And someone asked Gretzky, you
know because his wife is Janet Jones from America as
an actress, and like someone asked him before the United
States played Canada, and it might have been the the
Sydney Crosby goal game where they said, hey, so you know,
is your wife you know, what's it like your wife
rooting for America and and and you know, you being
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from Canada jam a team Canada. Some kind of question
like that, And Gretzky says, my wife is with me.
What are you talking about? My wife's rooting for me.
Like she's gonna say, sorry, Wayne, I'm sorry. Spent my
life with you and everything, but yeah, this, hey, this
is country. So I got it root the United States
too against you guys. She tried to have me kicked out. No, no, pamme,
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pamel b for me, and if somehow the Tigers win,
then she'll be happy for Vandal. She's with me on
this as hundred percent. Ah, my friends, Yankee, forget it man.
That that's all no can that's the worst. That's the
worst of all outcomes. That's the absolute worst of laca Like,
I'd rather lose to the to the Dodgers than have
to go and play the Yankees and Louke Like. I'd
rather that happen because at least I could say, well,
we beat you guys in twenty fifteen when we went
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to the World Series. You beat us here. Okay, we're
even now, let's get to the album.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
What about the old Homer Simpson or Jim Varney carneie
guy on the Simpsons.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
We were beaten by the best. Uh no, no, I'd
rather lose that. I'd rather lose in four to the
Dodgers and lose to the Tigers in the world Okay,
oh yeah, if you're telling me what all.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
The uh the hats and jerseys and fun you would
get with that.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
The only losing that is acceptable would be making it
to the World Series and losing to the Guardians. That's it.
Because okay, well we lost the Guardians. They ended their
big their big drought, and what a great story it is.
And the Guardians are a really good team, and okay,
and even oh but Lindor's old team. Yeah, I don't care. Whatever.
The guy's the best all around player in baseball and
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we have I don't care. But that would be the
only accept winning the Pennant and losing to the Guardians. Eh, Okay,
that's like the that's like the best of all circumstances.
So we just have to go win the whole thing.
We just gotta go win it all. That's all it is.
It's gotta go win it all because nothing else is
acceptable in any of those other outcomes. They are not
acceptable on any level. No, not acceptable. Seeing psychologically, right now,
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you're you're defeated.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
You could say to me, hey, like, right now, you're
you're in you're in hell because there's still this you're
you're doing the doctor strange thing. No, no, if you know,
not celebrating that Sam Raimi's good Raft Part three. No,
you're you're right now you're having that calculation of all
the ways this could go badly for you and just
holding up one finger at the end of it, and
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not the middle one.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It's just there's one outcome. Blank you blank you blank
you if you said to me, okay, I'll wave a
magic wand Jason, the Mets lose to the Yankees in
the World Series, but the Jets make the playoffs and
win at least one game. I would say, no, no,
can't have that. I can't. I can't have a loss
in the I can't do it, all right, But they
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lose to the Tigers, but the Jets win, go to
the playoffs, win at least what. No, can't have that either.
They can't have it. No, no, can't lose to any
either of those teams. Losing to the Dodge would be
tough enough, you know, living in la you know, wearing
my met skier all the way and people going, you stink,
we beat you. I mean they wouldn't say that, that's
what they would do in New York. But still it
would be a difficult thing. Okay, that's fine, but but
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oh no, no, those outcomes uh uh uh. Can't have it.
Can't have either of them. No, no, no, no, not a
lot of scenarios that we've just run up here.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I have to never talked to my dad today, your
heart beating faster as you're contemplating the derision and hatred
that you would get from all the parties from all
of those losses. So yeah, again, if you had to
go win the whole thing. Otherwise you're gonna be miserable
because the Jets suck.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I think. I don't think. I talked to my dad
after the two thousand World Series until until Zoe was
born eight years later. I just, okay, I can't talk
to you, Dad. I just I can't do it. I
can't do it. I can't keep telling you about Ramiro
Mendo the first game and Benita is blowing the safe
and Clement's throwing the bat and being allowed to stay
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in the game instead of being tossed like you should
have been. But no, let's do the Yankees favors. No,
he's like eight years I doubt. I'm sorry. I can't
talk to you. He wasn't throwing it. Can't do it directly.
What are you talking? Oh no, he just missed. Yeah, sure, sure,
and he's allowed to stay in the game. I thought
it was the ball. Yeah that's great. Roger. Yeah, you
(23:31):
seem like you have the you're you're you're mentally aware
enough to stay in the game. Right now, let's keep
you in this game. But I couldn't. Man, that's how
long it took. You're saying he was raging at that point.
I'm just just said raging. I just said raging. Rage.
Didn't know the word after before after it, I just
said he was ra was raging at that point. He
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raged fired up. There's just about it. And I love
my dad. Wanted a swell of emotion. I want to
be able to talk to my dad, and I don't
know that I'll be able to. I mean realize that, Dad.
You know what I think we just need, Like like exes,
we need to communicate through Zoe, right, Like Zoe's gonna
be the common bond. You know, a granddaughter. You when
you want to communicate through me, you tell Zoe, Zoe
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will give me the message and I will have her
and then take That's how it's gonna go, Just like
how exes, Hey, can you pick up so and so
you get the message, Yes, I'll pick you up. Here,
tell your mother I'll pick her up. Okay, great, That's
how I'd have to do with my dad. So the
Yankees is no good. He absolutely no good. I need
to Detroit. May even be worse because Pam's family's gonna
be ruthless. They would be like me. So I know
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what Pam's family, and there's a lot of them, there's
like fifteen of them.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
If they're not gonna come to LA it doesn't matter
because yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But I can't go back there. I vacation. You don't
need to you know why vacation there? I commun golf.
You could never go back. Take a stand, Okay, and
I's on the beach. Hey, I think we go back
to Detroit for Christmas. We're gonna have a big family
get Yeah, you guys got stay in here.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Blank those people standing there with this Mets flag on
on the beach, what's he doing?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
He said he's taken some grand stand against the derision
and hatred.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
He was receiving the mucking all you guys, Oh you guys,
go blanke yourself, all of you. That's you, yes you, yeah,
everybody in the family, even the phone. Yeah, no, no, no,
I have to Me and Benny have taken a stand.
Absolutely terrible.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
The Jason Smithson with Mike Carbon Live the tirec Dot
com Studios. So we got big college football stuff here.
Let's let's dive in here for the next few minutes.
Look the game of the day and and probably game
of the year Part two. We had the Alabama Georgia
game a couple of weeks ago. But now you get
number two and number three Ohio State and Oregon, and
(25:50):
right right away, I have no doubt Ohio State wins
this game, no doubt. I don't know how good Oregon is.
I think it's a little bit of a hangover from
last year. But Ohio State, they just they don't lose
games like this. They wait until they play Michigan or
get in the playoff and they lose, and that's when
people want Ryan they fired. But usually the middle of
the season showdowns, Ohio State does well at right. They
(26:14):
just don't lose these games. They meet every challenge. It's
been a quiet year for them so far, and that's
been a good thing. They play really well on the road, right.
Will Howard has been really good. All the talk early
on off boy, well, like Kyle McCord, go, No, Howard's
kind of been pretty Kyle McCord's been great, but it's hey,
you know, Will Howard's been really good too. This offense
has been very, very good. They can do it all.
(26:34):
They can run for a ton of yards, they can
throw the football if they have to. I mean, the
Ohio State is just terrific, and this is gonna be
the game where very publicly they put a stamp on
it and say, don't forget about us. We could be
the top team in the country as well. Right Dylan Gabriel,
I'm sure he's They're gonna get him to turn it
over a couple of times. That's what he's done. He's
done in big games before. It's not easy to take
(26:57):
a road team in a game like this where you're
traveling halfway across the country. We talked about travel being
a big deal in college football when you have to
travel a long way. But Ohio State just they know
how to win games like this. There's not gonna be
anything outside unaccounted for that's gonna get in their way.
They're the better football team. I am confident they are
gonna win this game, and I don't know that I'd
(27:20):
be surprised they didn't win by at least ten points.
That's how much I like Ohio State in this game.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, just look at it the way we've gotten to
this path for Oregon to this point, and it doesn't
mean they won't be able to put up some points
along the way. Their best win of the year is
Oregon State. They're four and one, but they got absolutely
you know, Oregon State got worked in that one. But otherwise,
(27:45):
Oregon beat a Michigan State team that's a five hundred
squad UCLA we've all roundly acknowledged they stink. And then
a narrow win over Boise State at home and kind
of slept walk in the opener against Idaho. So even
though you've got some gaudy numbers and Gabriel completing seventy
(28:07):
eight percent of his past attempts, and he'll make a
couple of big plays, I have no doubt of that,
but he's not faced a defense that looks anything like
what Ohio State's going to be able to bring to bear.
So the windows, the margins, margin for error isn't gonna
be there. And so yeah, welcome, it's the hard Welcome
to the big ten. You got the soft launch with
(28:30):
with UCLA and Michigan State. Yeah, here it gets real,
real fast. But you know what, it doesn't matter, because
they'll still be a playoff team when it's all said
and done.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Now, look da. But here's the thing, though, is there's
a you know, and there's a bigger conversation we'll have
next week. Is that that's the best part about this?
You say, oh, well, they lose a game, they're still
a playoff team. Uh will it be? Like it's still
a mystery, like nobody knows how many games you can
lose and still get in, right, nobody knows? I mean,
because yeah, okay, well we have any question with the
(29:01):
top four five teams? No, you look at the way
the records are at the end of the year, and
you see once you get outside the top four, there's
only a couple of teams with one loss, right, So
sure we're gonna So there's gonna be the cream of
the crop. The big question is gonna be from teams
like six through twelve. But is two losses gonna get
you in? Is three losses to night right, three might
(29:21):
be in? Like that's that's a huge deal. Well again,
we'll get into that in a bigger deal next week.
But got the schedule? You don't know?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
You don't know, man, that's the beauty of it though,
right Like for everybody that wants to bemoan, Oh this
is not my then go do something else.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Go weave a basket and move on.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
You know, this means that all those games down the
stretch have added meaning well all the things that we
used to talk about in terms of maybe they're running
up the score. Yeah, you might see some of that
some throwback and guys like Key k Hernandez saying plan you.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
A away.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Exit out bout of Fresco exit swollen down the Jason
Smithscher with Mike Carmon live from the tirac dot Com studios.
We got more coming up in ninety seconds, but first
special delivery. Steve de Sager has what's trending in the
wide world of sports.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
That's d Hello, mister met You know your manager did
say this week there's a really good chance Jeff McNeil,
after the wrist injury, is on their roster for the
NLCS as long as.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Got to play two games in Arizona Fall League yesterday
and today, today and tomorrow. He's got to get through
both games and they'll put him on the roster.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
He had a hit and a walk tonight for Scottsdale
the Scorpions were defeated, but in then he got full
at bats. I'll just assume he got through tonight, so
halfway there, sir. The Mets will travel to Southern California
to open the NLCS against the Dodgers on Sunday night
on Fox TV, with Game two on Monday afternoon. Game
(30:53):
three Wednesday night in New York. By the way, the
Mets of the eighth team to reach the NLCS after
being at least a eleven games under five hundred during
the season. Five years ago, Washington had that similar bad
start wound up winning the World Series. The Dodgers eliminated
the rival Padres in the NLDS Game five of the
best of five, two nothing the final, the Padres offense
(31:14):
went two for twenty eight. The last nineteen batters were retired.
Dodger bullpen with four hitless innings and five strikeouts, the
win to Yoshinobu Yamamoto with five scoreless innings, the loss
to you Darvish, who was good again six and two
thirds innings but allowed two solo homers, and the Padre
offense got shut out. Manny Machado this postseason went just
(31:35):
five for twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
At the plate.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
In his career in the playoffs, Machado is batting two
fifteen and that's in nearly fifty games with fifty four strikeouts.
He has signed through twenty thirty three for the Dodgers
a rarity. It had been over a decade since they
had clinched a playoff series in front of the home
fans at Dodgers Stadium. That's what happened in La tonight.
(31:59):
The Dodgers had won a wild card game on a
walkoff homer a few years ago Chris Taylor, and the
year before during COVID, they won a first round wildcard
series with no fans, but it had been since twenty
thirteen eliminating the Braves at home that what happened tonight
had happened, and it was loud and shaking at Dodger Stadium.
(32:21):
And by the way, we had the first matchup of
Japanese born starting pitchers in MLB postseason history. And at
the end, the Dodger manager, Dave Roberts, born in Okinawa,
by the way, takes another winner take all playoff game.
He's six and two in those situations. The notable loss
on the Ledger is the U Darvish loss when he
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was a Dodger in Game seven of the World Series
few years.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, but if he was tipping his pitches, does it
really matter somehow?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
That's on the staff also, not just the pitcher, but
Dave Roberts to have with one team eight winner take
all playoff games, even that breaks the record he held
with Joe Tory and his Yankees career and Bobby Cox
in his Braves career. Dodgers Mets starting Sunday night. Tomorrow's
ALDS Game five Detroit at Cleveland was moved up to
(33:12):
one pm Eastern Time due to impending rain. In college
football tonight on FS one, Northwestern a winner at Maryland
thirty seven to ten. UNLV now five and one, after
winning at Utah State fifty to thirty four, and early
third quarter at Arizona State Sun Devil still ahead of
sixteenth ranked Utah thirteen to nine. A reminder Saturday at
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noon Eastern time, Washington at Iowa on Fox TV. By
the way, Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis will start on
Sunday after a shoulder injury.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason smithser
with Mike Carmon live from the tyrack dot com studios.
Phone to eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight
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Speaker 1 (35:12):
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Take Off your Uniform lifthtirack dot com Studios, where it
is a large slate of college football games tomorrow Ohio State, Oregon.
You got red River Major Apple White set to start
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Chris Sims relief for Texas tomorrow. No, that's good.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Just mean, I'm just sitting with a win under my
belt thirty seven points, despite being outgained first downs twenty
five to nine Maryland.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
It doesn't matter. Go Cats. You feel good. You got
that out. You feel good.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Hey, you know what, it's been nothing but Jets and Matts.
I'm taking a damn victory lapdo oh No, that's great.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
But could I finish talking about the games tomorrow? And
then you jump in with, hey, we won tonight, Can
we do that? Can we do that? I could just
use back and enjoy them, you said thirty seven, and
I'm just thinking in a row, like I just laying
out the games for tomorrow. We won to night. Yes,
that's great.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Five.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
But of all of these big games tomorrow Penn State
USC is another big one. My upset special USC tomorrow
getting the points. We will once again beginning of next
week be talking about Colorado. Colorado, who, after their loss
in Nebraska, fell off the map. We stopped paying attention
(36:39):
to Dion Sanders, we stopped paying attention to Colorado in general.
Here they are again. It's just like last year. They're
no good. Well they're a little bit better than you
think they are. Since that Nebraska loss, it's been three
wins in a row, Colorado State, Baylor, Central Florida and
now their next big test is tomorrow night against Kansas
(37:00):
State and Dion hates it. It's a night game. Yeah right, whatever,
Dion loves this. Okay this, dare you put us on
that lady? Yeah? I know right, But we're gonna be
talking about Colorado football again next week. Again. They lost
one game, Okay, they're done. They looked awful against Nebraska.
There were bad optics with Shadur Sanders and of course
(37:22):
with Dion coming off that game, and it was it
was easy to say, Okay, they are a great story.
But we saw this movie last year and we're moving on.
But they're four and one now and they have Kansas
States their first ranked team they've played now in a
few weeks. This is a game that Colorado wins. They
live for games like this where they're the underdog. They're
(37:42):
at home there at night, no one believes in us.
We're gonna make people pay attention. Hey, I give Colorado
a lot of credit. The last three weeks. They somehow
were able to stay out of the spotlight, focus and win.
I didn't think they could do it. I didn't think
it was possible for Deon Sanders to stay out of
the spotlight and focus and just play football. But they did,
(38:04):
and I give them a lot of the You know,
that should be what a lot of teams do, but
I give Dean credit for that because that's Colorado football.
This will be a Shador Sanders, Travis Hunter Special. I've
seen this movie before. I've seen them come up with
big games at home at night, Sanders and Hunter. They're
gonna win this. I like Colorado like a thirty eight
to thirty one game in Sanders throw at least four
(38:25):
touchdowns and beginning next week, suddenly it's hey, guess who's
gonna be ranked and is high? And do they have
a shot at the playoff? And we're talking about Colorado
football in October, where by this time last year we
were done with them. We were absolutely done with Colorado
by this point.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Well, what's funny though, Jason Reddy had started with that
odd game against North Dakota State, a powerhouse right in
their division, their their former coach now the OC at Northwestern.
See how it all ties together? And so they win
by five points and we're we see Sanders as his
four to forty five. But it's like, yeah, but yeah,
(39:03):
but either you had them on upset alert or you
expected them to win by forty seemed to be the
story of that game. And then they lose in Nebraska
and get handled pretty easily. The Colorado State game had
a bunch of emotion to it, a lot of trash
talk all of that, the handshake, that wasn't all of that.
But they win twenty eight to nine convincingly, and the
(39:24):
last two weeks wins over Baylor and a decisive win
before the bye week against Central Florida.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
And you know what was different there? They ran the ball.
They ran the ball.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
They absolutely bludgeoned them in that forty eight to twenty
one because they were a huge underdog in that one, right,
and that was it was a game.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
It was it was a big spot. And it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
what do we get?
Speaker 3 (39:47):
We're getting offensive balance now, and now you get this
game against k State. They've got two more games against
ranked teams as we sit here. You've got this one
versus k State at home. Tickets one hundred and fifty
bucks forgetting Are you kidding? Prime time for prime You
know it was thirty two years ago yesterday that he
played in two sports as a profession on the same day.
(40:11):
And then they've got Utah a month from now, currently
number sixteen. Otherwise, looking at a stretch where all of
a sudden, shaduor Sanders with an offensive line that's playing better.
Why because they're also running the ball more effectively sort
of getting ahead of down and distance. Shador's not running
for his life on third down and and and you
(40:33):
know it's makeable throws. He doesn't have to sit in
the pocket like a sitting duck. Now you got the
other receiver stepping up. Yeah, the balance that is there.
This line opened, Colorado getting six, it's down to three
and a half.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah, it's it's hard for me to see them losing
this game. I can't. I can't see them with a
chance to get back in the national conversation. This is
one of those emotional games where it's a tidal wave
for Colorado go to be talking about them beginning and
next week again and talking about their playoff possibilities. Give
me Colorado and that bold prediction tomorrow. Let's go. Uh.
(41:09):
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Happy football Friday night, obviously a big baseball night as well,
with the Dodgers going to the NLCS. We'll have some
big college football stories coming up. In a few minutes,
we'll pick the game of the week and give you
a big bold prediction about the team we'll all be
talking about on Monday. But we watched the Dodgers tried
(01:08):
out thirteen pitchers in the last two games against the
San Diego Padres, and the Padres couldn't dent the scoreboard
off of any of them. It got to the point
where I think they could have brought Jimmy Kimmel or
Mary Hart or Flee out of the stands and they
still would have had a scoreless in and go up
against the Padres. Maybe a walk, but they probably gotta
pop up to end the inning. The Dodgers pitching could
(01:30):
do no wrong against the Padres, and it really is
something to go thirteen for thirteen with pitchers. Eight believers
pitch in Game four and you had five pitchers go tonight,
Yamamoto goes five innings. It was an incredible last couple
of games for the Dodgers who win this series. But look, Mike,
I gotta be honest. Okay, this was not the same
(01:52):
Padre team that was playing just two games ago. Oh no.
This is this is where you run into the dangers
of a and having that be a weapon that carries you. Right.
Two years ago, when the Padres went all out right
and they spent money and they gave to Tea saw
that cash and they got Machado and the things. All
these things have been going on in the last few years. Hey,
(02:13):
it suddenly became it's on older brother. Hey, here we
go in Padres Dodgers became the best rivalry in all
of baseball. And it was there for Game one when
the Padres crushed the Dodgers and they had everything going
for them, right. We talked about it at the time. Hey,
the Padres, they know exactly how to get in the Dodgers'
heads and get under their skin, and they're doing it.
I feel like Max Munsey of the Dodgers listened to
(02:35):
the show because he did a press conference after Game three, say, hey,
they like getting under our skin. We can't let that happen. Hey, thanks, guys.
Whatever you want to pay me for motivational talk, I'll
take it. But that's what the Padres did. And it's
not a strategy that you can spend through one hundred
and sixty two games, but it certainly is something you
can use in the playoffs. Look, everybody's looking for their
thing to hang on to, right. The Mets have Grimace
(02:57):
and the Hawk to a girl and OMG, and everybody's
got their thing. Right. The Padres thing is emotion and
yacking it up and having fun in front of the
Dodger fans. It's Fernando Tatiz Junior wriggling his hips at
the fans and pro far having fun with the crowd
and left field thinking he didn't snag a home run.
When he did, then guys are getting thrown at and
(03:18):
people are upset. The Padres did a great job of that,
and they rode that momentum, and they rode that emotion.
And that was not the same team that took the
field the last two days the last year. Not not
even close. They looked like they were going through the
motions from the third inning on of Game four, and
tonight didn't look like they were in the game at all. Now, yes,
a lot of credit to Yamamoto who pitched well. Darvish
(03:40):
pitch really well. He made two mistakes, and the Dodgers'
pitching staff was terrific. But I mean, just think about it.
Is it really all Dodgers when thirteen they used thirteen
pitchers and you can't hit any of them, You can't
dent the board once off of any of them. Not
only that, how many times did you ever really threaten
where it felt like you were going to score a
run and Padres couldn't even do that. It's like they
(04:02):
were zombies walking around those last two games. And I
couldn't believe it. After the first three games full of
fire and brimstone and lightnings coming out of our hands,
we want to just electrocute the Dodgers and pick them
up and throw them down the shaft like the end
of Return of the Jedi. And Game four. In Game
five was just yeah, we're going up, we're hitting, We're
going back to the bench, like I didn't see anything. Look,
(04:22):
what do I know about baseball, right? But I didn't
see any sort of emotion. I didn't see any sort
of Hey, let's have some sense of real urgency here.
I didn't see it in Game four, And wow, did
I see less of that in Game five? You know,
they almost looked like in Game five when the Mets
beat the Braves in the big double head of the
first game when Dor it's the home run of the
(04:43):
ninth inning and they clinch a playoff berth, and they
are already on the plane to Milwaukee for the first
round of the playoffs, and the second game of the
double header that the Braves needed to win to make
the playoffs, the Mets played all most of their B
players and it was just there. I mean, the Mets
had no life at all. That's kind of what it
looked like watching the Padres, like a team that we
have no life. The season's over and we're punching a
(05:05):
time clock until until it ends. Yes, you can talk
about the Dodgers pitching being really good, and it was,
but in thirteen innings, every single Dodger reliever had his
a game. Come on, man, this is a Dodger team
that lost, a Padre team that lost so much of
its mojo after Game three. I don't know what happened.
I don't know where it went. But when you rely
on that and that's a big weapon for you and
(05:26):
that deserts you, you get knights like you get the
last two days for the San Diego Padres. This was
not that team, all right, the last two days. This
was not the team we saw over the course of
the last couple of months steaming their way to a
playoff berth the number one wildcard, the team we saw
the first three games against the Dodgers. This was not
that team. I don't know where they went, but boy
was that embarrassing. That this was the effort they gave
(05:48):
the last two games, their season on the line, they
could beat the Dodgers, knock them out of the playoffs,
and they show up dead from the neck up. I'm
so embarrassed for the Padres because they just came up,
swung the bats, went back to the bench, came up
so on the bats back to the bench. That was
it for two straight games. That is unforgivable.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, it seemed like after the Game three that they
just felt, well, we're we're now. Uh, it's inevitable, right,
it's the Thanos snap. We joke about it all the time,
is that you had you built that six, six run
lead right massive inning, and then Dodger storm right back,
but just ever so close, and the game after the
(06:28):
third inning is a bunch of zeros and they walk
away with the w and it seems that, all right,
you got your challenge from the Dodgers. It wasn't enough,
so they'll go softly into the good night instead. You know,
you're looking at a different iteration because part of the
emotion that they were running with was you know, a rise,
you know, going to the batting title Tatis Junior pro
(06:50):
far and obviously Jackson, Jackson, Merrill, the new star with
Manny Mitchilah, like you've got stars all around, But it was, hey,
Soda left, We're doing this without him, right, So some
of it was you know, we're still here. He's off
doing what he's doing, and we added to the bullpen
at the trade deadline. All of this it built towards
(07:12):
this big moment and that Game three where Dodgers gave
it their best shot and it wasn't enough, right, A
lot of histrionics, a lot of celebration, and then Game
four comes and you get the bullpen game, and what
did you get from a bunch of the padres? After that,
it's like, well, I don't really like the bullpen games.
(07:33):
I don't really like that, right, because you don't see
the same guy four times, right, That's the whole thing
with where we are in baseball as a whole. You're
not seeing a guy a third time through a lineup
unless you're absolutely dealing and you're playing with the Hey,
I'm a bleeping legend here, skip, I'm going back out
(07:53):
there for another turn.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You come get me if you need to.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
But I'm not sitting down just because the math says
that I shouldn't face this guy a third time. No,
most guys are seeding the ball and they go and
they sit their ass down, and that's.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The end of it. And what you saw.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
In that game for were a bunch of listless, lifeless
at bets, no threats, no opportunity, Dodgers, run away and hide,
and you get your six nil win using eight relievers,
because nobody ever got comfortable at the plate, nobody ever. Look,
I know you hate bunting. You know at some point,
(08:31):
try a damn bunt. Go find a Barry Bond suit
of armor and get up there and take one for
the team on something inside.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
They did none of it.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And then tonight, great effort from darviish the two mistakes,
he goes six and two thirds gives up to earn.
In most baseball games, you're feeling pretty good. Well not tonight.
Yamamoto gives you five strong, which is an inning more
than I think Dave Roberts could have ever hoped for. Right,
I think he was saying, if I can get four
out of him, if I can get four, And when
(09:01):
he went out for the fifth fight, Oh look at you, Dave,
living dangerously, Look at you crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
He was dying to go out there and get him earlier.
I want to go to the bullpen now, Yeah, but
he's pitching. Really, they like had to hold him back
to running out to look at him twitch, pluck at
his hand. It's twitch and he wants to make that call.
But he didn't because the big thing with Yamamoto start
is that it wasn't like he was mowing him down
in terms of, Hey, his stuff is just electric and
(09:28):
these guys are all swinging it with and no.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
They were putting the ball in play. They just didn't
put it anywhere of substance. And he got great efforts
from his defense. You go to Phillips, who gives you
five outs, three strikeouts, sixteen strikes and his twenty five pitches,
then to Vessia, on to Kopec and trying and comes
in to finish it off. Uh you look at the
(09:50):
the efforts. Vesia right gets his third of an inning
six pitches, Kopec comes in nine pitch inning.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Because that's the other thing. I mean, you're not getting
any quality at bats. You're not know how many times
did Maddy Machado had two flyouts to the warning track
and write his first two times up. How many pitches
did he see in those two at bats? Three? Yeah?
Like really, like, like what are you doing? You have
to make Yamamoto work. This is a guy that hasn't
(10:18):
made it out of the fourth inning in months. I mean,
that's it. It's a bit, That's what I mean. The
approach by the Padres were bad, the seeing them swing free,
swinging way too early in the count. I did not
see any grinding of at bats, which you need to
do when you can tell, hey, this is gonna be
a game where one or two runs is gonna be
the difference. There was none of that. There was just
we're going up swinging, We're going home and go back.
(10:40):
That's going the way without a plan, without anything more
than hey, I'm just gonna do my thing and see
how it goes that.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
That's not how you score runs in the postseason. Ye
just go back to the third inning. Cronin North flies out,
Hygashioka gives them a base hit, arise with the single,
so first and second, one out, and then Tatis Junior
gets up there thinking his eyes are big and wide,
I'm gonna make the difference, and he grounds into a
double play, just tops it. Third second, first done, and
(11:11):
that was the only thread that was the only at
bat with a runner on in scoring position for the
Padres tonight just another master works from the Dodgers and
advance to play your mets on Sunday. But yeah, very
different approach. And you know, we always have joked the
you know how raucous guys get may go back to
(11:34):
Patrick Mahomes even I know the promos and we talked
about it the other day, how chesty he was with
the royals and everything, and it's one of those things
we had in our house of you know, you only
sing when you're winning. Awful quiet when things start to
get even out or momentum swings, or or you're down.
(11:54):
You know how you're sitting on your hand and your
voice can't be heard. But when you're winning, you're allowed
in the ass. And that's exactly what Padres fans were
and the Padres players. I almost put up the appropriate
ad that keeps showing up. You know who mister cartoon is.
They had a beer ad around him artist, right, he
comes from the streets and all this stuff. He's got
(12:15):
a line of clown masks that's affiliated with MLB. I
almost put it up there, But yeah, just verbalize it here,
clown mask man.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Well look and I'll tell you what's even worse. Right,
And you think about this for the Padres, how bad
it was the fact not only could you not score
off of any of their pictures, you're at bats were bad.
Some pictures I get if you can't hit a couple
of guys, but sure, thirteen is just way too many.
But when you think about it from this, why in
the playoffs do bullpens implode more? Well, think about it
(12:50):
like this. In the regular season, you play a three
game series against the team, and you move on, and
you know, no one, no one does anything more than
what the plan is. Hey, you're gonna go an inning.
You're gonna go in inning. Here, you see it. You
see bullpens for three days, right, and then you go on.
You're into a new set of teams, new city, do
everything else, probably only see the guy won some of
(13:11):
the series. This is now you are seeing some of
these relievers three and sometimes four times in this series.
By the time you get to game five. This is
where any advantage they have is gone, because hey, if
they were better pictures, they'd be starting pitchers. There's the
reason why they're at the bullpen. I can give you
good innings for a very short amount of time. My
(13:33):
stuff is limited, but I can get you some outs
here over an inning or so. When you see the
same pictures now for three and four times in a series,
that advantage goes out the window. This is why you
get You got teams at the end of series trying
to put there a bullpen together with with tape. Right,
Like Edwin Diaz walked the first two guys in ninth
inn against the Phillies. Guess what Ryan Stanek was up
(13:54):
to come in for d Az if he put another
guy on in the clinching game against the Phillies, because
he was a guy that thrown the best so far
and he only pitched well, he only pitched a couple
of times. Hey, we got to get him in there.
Because Diaz, they've seen him, they've knocked him around. We
don't know if he really has it. By the time
you get that deep in the series, you should be
thumping some of those pitchers out of the ball, but
not everyone, because still great pitchers are going to get
(14:15):
guys out and baseball is built on failure. So the
great pitcher are going to do it. But every guy
that comes in, especially after you see them as much
as you have, if you have a disciplined approach to
add bats like it should be during the playoffs. This
should equal runs and doesn't need to be nine to eight,
but certainly it can be four to three, certainly, but
a couple of runs on the board, but no runs
(14:36):
in eighteen innings and thirteen pitchers for the Dodgers. That's
so embarrassing for the Padres.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Well, I'm looking at you know, just kind of going
through the track history, right, your game logs of these guys.
Copig pitched three times in this series innings trying in
his last four outings came against the Padres, saw him
twice in this series, and then he saw him in
(15:04):
that series that they had in the final week of
the season back on September twenty fifth, So I mean,
familiarities should have come into play.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Didn't matter.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Dodgers came up and owned him. They and they sent
little brother back home. A lot of saltiness in San
Diego tonight.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
We had them and we let them off the It's
just so embarrassing. It's so embarrassing for the Padres that
they this was their effort the last couple of nights, Wow,
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But coming up next, what more baseball on the wave
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(16:05):
stories tomorrow in college football, the game of the week
and the team everybody's gonna be shockingly talking about. Like, dude,
you're gonna say Cleveland doesn't play college football? Sure, well
not at the level where we pay attention to it.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
All right, uh, and we'll be talking about shockingly coming
up on Monday. Oh right, They're you gonna play Cleveland Okay,
that's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike. This
is Fox Sports, right Jason. If you guys don't win
a single game, what do you mean a single game?
We're gonna win four games. Four, Get play four, Get
(16:44):
them fours up, Get them fours up.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You'll be able to play his uh sad story music
time and again.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Oh I love that stuff. I feel like this does
have a statue to it.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (17:11):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon New live from the tire rack dot
Com Studios. What more Baseball on the way? The NLCS
is set waiting for Game five between the Tigers and
the Guardians tomorrow, and I ain't got to be honest,
Mike Harmon. I'm a little nervous here because I'm like, Okay,
(17:33):
if the Mets lose to the Dodgers, I gotta walk
around to La knowing that happened. If they beat the Dodger,
bill lose to the Yankees, that's the worst of all
possible outcomes. If they beat the Dodgers and lose to
the Tigers, I can ever go back to Detroit. My
wife's family, forget. So there's only one choice the Mets have.
When the whole damn thing. That's where I am right now.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Just wait, holy choice.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
So when the whole damn thing, that's all. Oh, the
choice we have, that's truly all you got. Yep, that's
it man.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
No, Look, it's a it's a world of misery for
you because around the office you'll never hear the end
of it. Frostburg will be insufferable. The Tigers thing, I
mean the family. Yeah, no, that's bad.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah no, I can't. I can't. Are you kidding? I'll
never go back. And because this is your wife on
board this Tiger's thing. No, she's she's she's more happier
for me. She's like, hey, she's with me. But then
obviously you know, hey she'll be happy for her family.
But no, she's with me on this.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
No, I mean because day to day, I mean your
mental health. You know you ride the lightning.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
No with you you No, No, No, here's what it is.
You know what this is? What it is? You know
what I remember I remember, I think it was during
the Olympics. This is probably about ten or twelve years
ago when I think Gretzki was. Was Gretzky coaching? Was
he the GM of the Canadian Olympic team? Right? Okay?
And they wound up winning, you know, they buried the
(18:56):
looney in the ice and they dug it up at
the end and Canada won. And someone asked Gretzky, you
know because his wife is Janet Jones from America as
an actress, and like someone asked him before the United
States played Canada, and it might have been the the
Sydney Crosby goal game where they said, hey, so you know,
is your wife you know, what's it like your wife
rooting for America and and and you know, you being
(19:18):
from Canada jam a team Canada. Some kind of question
like that, And Gretzky says, my wife is with me.
What are you talking about? My wife's rooting for me.
Like she's gonna say, sorry, Wayne, I'm sorry. Spent my
life with you and everything, but yeah, this, hey, this
is country. So I got it root the United States
too against you guys. She tried to have me kicked out. No, no, pamme,
(19:42):
pamel b for me, and if somehow the Tigers win,
then she'll be happy for Vandal. She's with me on
this as hundred percent. Ah, my friends, Yankee, forget it man.
That that's all no can that's the worst. That's the
worst of all outcomes. That's the absolute worst of laca Like,
I'd rather lose to the to the Dodgers than have
to go and play the Yankees and Louke Like. I'd
rather that happen because at least I could say, well,
we beat you guys in twenty fifteen when we went
(20:03):
to the World Series. You beat us here. Okay, we're
even now, let's get to the album.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
What about the old Homer Simpson or Jim Varney carneie
guy on the Simpsons.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
We were beaten by the best. Uh no, no, I'd
rather lose that. I'd rather lose in four to the
Dodgers and lose to the Tigers in the world Okay,
oh yeah, if you're telling me what all.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
The uh the hats and jerseys and fun you would
get with that.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
The only losing that is acceptable would be making it
to the World Series and losing to the Guardians. That's it.
Because okay, well we lost the Guardians. They ended their
big their big drought, and what a great story it is.
And the Guardians are a really good team, and okay,
and even oh but Lindor's old team. Yeah, I don't care. Whatever.
The guy's the best all around player in baseball and
(20:52):
we have I don't care. But that would be the
only accept winning the Pennant and losing to the Guardians. Eh, Okay,
that's like the that's like the best of all circumstances.
So we just have to go win the whole thing.
We just gotta go win it all. That's all it is.
It's gotta go win it all because nothing else is
acceptable in any of those other outcomes. They are not
acceptable on any level. No, not acceptable. Seeing psychologically, right now,
(21:16):
you're you're defeated.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
You could say to me, hey, like, right now, you're
you're in you're in hell because there's still this you're
you're doing the doctor strange thing. No, no, if you know,
not celebrating that Sam Raimi's good Raft Part three. No,
you're you're right now you're having that calculation of all
the ways this could go badly for you and just
holding up one finger at the end of it, and
(21:40):
not the middle one.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It's just there's one outcome. Blank you blank you blank
you if you said to me, okay, I'll wave a
magic wand Jason, the Mets lose to the Yankees in
the World Series, but the Jets make the playoffs and
win at least one game. I would say, no, no,
can't have that. I can't. I can't have a loss
in the I can't do it, all right, But they
(22:02):
lose to the Tigers, but the Jets win, go to
the playoffs, win at least what. No, can't have that either.
They can't have it. No, no, can't lose to any
either of those teams. Losing to the Dodge would be
tough enough, you know, living in la you know, wearing
my met skier all the way and people going, you stink,
we beat you. I mean they wouldn't say that, that's
what they would do in New York. But still it
would be a difficult thing. Okay, that's fine, but but
(22:23):
oh no, no, those outcomes uh uh uh. Can't have it.
Can't have either of them. No, no, no, no, not a
lot of scenarios that we've just run up here.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I have to never talked to my dad today, your
heart beating faster as you're contemplating the derision and hatred
that you would get from all the parties from all
of those losses. So yeah, again, if you had to
go win the whole thing. Otherwise you're gonna be miserable
because the Jets suck.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I think. I don't think. I talked to my dad
after the two thousand World Series until until Zoe was
born eight years later. I just, okay, I can't talk
to you, Dad. I just I can't do it. I
can't do it. I can't keep telling you about Ramiro
Mendo the first game and Benita is blowing the safe
and Clement's throwing the bat and being allowed to stay
(23:11):
in the game instead of being tossed like you should
have been. But no, let's do the Yankees favors. No,
he's like eight years I doubt. I'm sorry. I can't
talk to you. He wasn't throwing it. Can't do it directly.
What are you talking? Oh no, he just missed. Yeah, sure, sure,
and he's allowed to stay in the game. I thought
it was the ball. Yeah that's great. Roger. Yeah, you
(23:31):
seem like you have the you're you're you're mentally aware
enough to stay in the game. Right now, let's keep
you in this game. But I couldn't. Man, that's how
long it took. You're saying he was raging at that point.
I'm just just said raging. I just said raging. Rage.
Didn't know the word after before after it, I just
said he was ra was raging at that point. He
(23:52):
raged fired up. There's just about it. And I love
my dad. Wanted a swell of emotion. I want to
be able to talk to my dad, and I don't
know that I'll be able to. I mean realize that, Dad.
You know what I think we just need, Like like exes,
we need to communicate through Zoe, right, Like Zoe's gonna
be the common bond. You know, a granddaughter. You when
you want to communicate through me, you tell Zoe, Zoe
(24:14):
will give me the message and I will have her
and then take That's how it's gonna go, Just like
how exes, Hey, can you pick up so and so
you get the message, Yes, I'll pick you up. Here,
tell your mother I'll pick her up. Okay, great, That's
how I'd have to do with my dad. So the
Yankees is no good. He absolutely no good. I need
to Detroit. May even be worse because Pam's family's gonna
be ruthless. They would be like me. So I know
(24:34):
what Pam's family, and there's a lot of them, there's
like fifteen of them.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
If they're not gonna come to LA it doesn't matter
because yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But I can't go back there. I vacation. You don't
need to you know why vacation there? I commun golf.
You could never go back. Take a stand, Okay, and
I's on the beach. Hey, I think we go back
to Detroit for Christmas. We're gonna have a big family
get Yeah, you guys got stay in here.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Blank those people standing there with this Mets flag on
on the beach, what's he doing?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
He said he's taken some grand stand against the derision
and hatred.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
He was receiving the mucking all you guys, Oh you guys,
go blanke yourself, all of you. That's you, yes you, yeah,
everybody in the family, even the phone. Yeah, no, no, no,
I have to Me and Benny have taken a stand.
Absolutely terrible.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
The Jason Smithson with Mike Carbon Live the tirec Dot
com Studios. So we got big college football stuff here.
Let's let's dive in here for the next few minutes.
Look the game of the day and and probably game
of the year Part two. We had the Alabama Georgia
game a couple of weeks ago. But now you get
number two and number three Ohio State and Oregon, and
(25:50):
right right away, I have no doubt Ohio State wins
this game, no doubt. I don't know how good Oregon is.
I think it's a little bit of a hangover from
last year. But Ohio State, they just they don't lose
games like this. They wait until they play Michigan or
get in the playoff and they lose, and that's when
people want Ryan they fired. But usually the middle of
the season showdowns, Ohio State does well at right. They
(26:14):
just don't lose these games. They meet every challenge. It's
been a quiet year for them so far, and that's
been a good thing. They play really well on the road, right.
Will Howard has been really good. All the talk early
on off boy, well, like Kyle McCord, go, No, Howard's
kind of been pretty Kyle McCord's been great, but it's hey,
you know, Will Howard's been really good too. This offense
has been very, very good. They can do it all.
(26:34):
They can run for a ton of yards, they can
throw the football if they have to. I mean, the
Ohio State is just terrific, and this is gonna be
the game where very publicly they put a stamp on
it and say, don't forget about us. We could be
the top team in the country as well. Right Dylan Gabriel,
I'm sure he's They're gonna get him to turn it
over a couple of times. That's what he's done. He's
done in big games before. It's not easy to take
(26:57):
a road team in a game like this where you're
traveling halfway across the country. We talked about travel being
a big deal in college football when you have to
travel a long way. But Ohio State just they know
how to win games like this. There's not gonna be
anything outside unaccounted for that's gonna get in their way.
They're the better football team. I am confident they are
gonna win this game, and I don't know that I'd
(27:20):
be surprised they didn't win by at least ten points.
That's how much I like Ohio State in this game.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, just look at it the way we've gotten to
this path for Oregon to this point, and it doesn't
mean they won't be able to put up some points
along the way. Their best win of the year is
Oregon State. They're four and one, but they got absolutely
you know, Oregon State got worked in that one. But otherwise,
(27:45):
Oregon beat a Michigan State team that's a five hundred
squad UCLA we've all roundly acknowledged they stink. And then
a narrow win over Boise State at home and kind
of slept walk in the opener against Idaho. So even
though you've got some gaudy numbers and Gabriel completing seventy
(28:07):
eight percent of his past attempts, and he'll make a
couple of big plays, I have no doubt of that,
but he's not faced a defense that looks anything like
what Ohio State's going to be able to bring to bear.
So the windows, the margins, margin for error isn't gonna
be there. And so yeah, welcome, it's the hard Welcome
to the big ten. You got the soft launch with
(28:30):
with UCLA and Michigan State. Yeah, here it gets real,
real fast. But you know what, it doesn't matter, because
they'll still be a playoff team when it's all said
and done.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Now, look da. But here's the thing, though, is there's
a you know, and there's a bigger conversation we'll have
next week. Is that that's the best part about this?
You say, oh, well, they lose a game, they're still
a playoff team. Uh will it be? Like it's still
a mystery, like nobody knows how many games you can
lose and still get in, right, nobody knows? I mean,
because yeah, okay, well we have any question with the
(29:01):
top four five teams? No, you look at the way
the records are at the end of the year, and
you see once you get outside the top four, there's
only a couple of teams with one loss, right, So
sure we're gonna So there's gonna be the cream of
the crop. The big question is gonna be from teams
like six through twelve. But is two losses gonna get
you in? Is three losses to night right, three might
(29:21):
be in? Like that's that's a huge deal. Well again,
we'll get into that in a bigger deal next week.
But got the schedule? You don't know?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
You don't know, man, that's the beauty of it though,
right Like for everybody that wants to bemoan, Oh this
is not my then go do something else.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Go weave a basket and move on.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
You know, this means that all those games down the
stretch have added meaning well all the things that we
used to talk about in terms of maybe they're running
up the score. Yeah, you might see some of that
some throwback and guys like Key k Hernandez saying plan you.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
A away.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Exit out bout of Fresco exit swollen down the Jason
Smithscher with Mike Carmon live from the tirac dot Com studios.
We got more coming up in ninety seconds, but first
special delivery. Steve de Sager has what's trending in the
wide world of sports.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
That's d Hello, mister met You know your manager did
say this week there's a really good chance Jeff McNeil,
after the wrist injury, is on their roster for the
NLCS as long as.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Got to play two games in Arizona Fall League yesterday
and today, today and tomorrow. He's got to get through
both games and they'll put him on the roster.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
He had a hit and a walk tonight for Scottsdale
the Scorpions were defeated, but in then he got full
at bats. I'll just assume he got through tonight, so
halfway there, sir. The Mets will travel to Southern California
to open the NLCS against the Dodgers on Sunday night
on Fox TV, with Game two on Monday afternoon. Game
(30:53):
three Wednesday night in New York. By the way, the
Mets of the eighth team to reach the NLCS after
being at least a eleven games under five hundred during
the season. Five years ago, Washington had that similar bad
start wound up winning the World Series. The Dodgers eliminated
the rival Padres in the NLDS Game five of the
best of five, two nothing the final, the Padres offense
(31:14):
went two for twenty eight. The last nineteen batters were retired.
Dodger bullpen with four hitless innings and five strikeouts, the
win to Yoshinobu Yamamoto with five scoreless innings, the loss
to you Darvish, who was good again six and two
thirds innings but allowed two solo homers, and the Padre
offense got shut out. Manny Machado this postseason went just
(31:35):
five for twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
At the plate.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
In his career in the playoffs, Machado is batting two
fifteen and that's in nearly fifty games with fifty four strikeouts.
He has signed through twenty thirty three for the Dodgers
a rarity. It had been over a decade since they
had clinched a playoff series in front of the home
fans at Dodgers Stadium. That's what happened in La tonight.
(31:59):
The Dodgers had won a wild card game on a
walkoff homer a few years ago Chris Taylor, and the
year before during COVID, they won a first round wildcard
series with no fans, but it had been since twenty
thirteen eliminating the Braves at home that what happened tonight
had happened, and it was loud and shaking at Dodger Stadium.
(32:21):
And by the way, we had the first matchup of
Japanese born starting pitchers in MLB postseason history. And at
the end, the Dodger manager, Dave Roberts, born in Okinawa,
by the way, takes another winner take all playoff game.
He's six and two in those situations. The notable loss
on the Ledger is the U Darvish loss when he
(32:42):
was a Dodger in Game seven of the World Series
few years.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, but if he was tipping his pitches, does it
really matter somehow?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
That's on the staff also, not just the pitcher, but
Dave Roberts to have with one team eight winner take
all playoff games, even that breaks the record he held
with Joe Tory and his Yankees career and Bobby Cox
in his Braves career. Dodgers Mets starting Sunday night. Tomorrow's
ALDS Game five Detroit at Cleveland was moved up to
(33:12):
one pm Eastern Time due to impending rain. In college
football tonight on FS one, Northwestern a winner at Maryland
thirty seven to ten. UNLV now five and one, after
winning at Utah State fifty to thirty four, and early
third quarter at Arizona State Sun Devil still ahead of
sixteenth ranked Utah thirteen to nine. A reminder Saturday at
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noon Eastern time, Washington at Iowa on Fox TV. By
the way, Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis will start on
Sunday after a shoulder injury.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason smithser
with Mike Carmon live from the tyrack dot com studios.
Phone to eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight
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Speaker 1 (35:12):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon,
Take Off your Uniform lifthtirack dot com Studios, where it
is a large slate of college football games tomorrow Ohio State, Oregon.
You got red River Major Apple White set to start
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Chris Sims relief for Texas tomorrow. No, that's good.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Just mean, I'm just sitting with a win under my
belt thirty seven points, despite being outgained first downs twenty
five to nine Maryland.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
It doesn't matter. Go Cats. You feel good. You got
that out. You feel good.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Hey, you know what, it's been nothing but Jets and Matts.
I'm taking a damn victory lapdo oh No, that's great.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
But could I finish talking about the games tomorrow? And
then you jump in with, hey, we won tonight, Can
we do that? Can we do that? I could just
use back and enjoy them, you said thirty seven, and
I'm just thinking in a row, like I just laying
out the games for tomorrow. We won to night. Yes,
that's great.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Five.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
But of all of these big games tomorrow Penn State
USC is another big one. My upset special USC tomorrow
getting the points. We will once again beginning of next
week be talking about Colorado. Colorado, who, after their loss
in Nebraska, fell off the map. We stopped paying attention
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to Dion Sanders, we stopped paying attention to Colorado in general.
Here they are again. It's just like last year. They're
no good. Well they're a little bit better than you
think they are. Since that Nebraska loss, it's been three
wins in a row, Colorado State, Baylor, Central Florida and
now their next big test is tomorrow night against Kansas
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State and Dion hates it. It's a night game. Yeah right, whatever,
Dion loves this. Okay this, dare you put us on
that lady? Yeah? I know right, But we're gonna be
talking about Colorado football again next week. Again. They lost
one game, Okay, they're done. They looked awful against Nebraska.
There were bad optics with Shadur Sanders and of course
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with Dion coming off that game, and it was it
was easy to say, Okay, they are a great story.
But we saw this movie last year and we're moving on.
But they're four and one now and they have Kansas
States their first ranked team they've played now in a
few weeks. This is a game that Colorado wins. They
live for games like this where they're the underdog. They're
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at home there at night, no one believes in us.
We're gonna make people pay attention. Hey, I give Colorado
a lot of credit. The last three weeks. They somehow
were able to stay out of the spotlight, focus and win.
I didn't think they could do it. I didn't think
it was possible for Deon Sanders to stay out of
the spotlight and focus and just play football. But they did,
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and I give them a lot of the You know,
that should be what a lot of teams do, but
I give Dean credit for that because that's Colorado football.
This will be a Shador Sanders, Travis Hunter Special. I've
seen this movie before. I've seen them come up with
big games at home at night, Sanders and Hunter. They're
gonna win this. I like Colorado like a thirty eight
to thirty one game in Sanders throw at least four
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touchdowns and beginning next week, suddenly it's hey, guess who's
gonna be ranked and is high? And do they have
a shot at the playoff? And we're talking about Colorado
football in October, where by this time last year we
were done with them. We were absolutely done with Colorado
by this point.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Well, what's funny though, Jason Reddy had started with that
odd game against North Dakota State, a powerhouse right in
their division, their their former coach now the OC at Northwestern.
See how it all ties together? And so they win
by five points and we're we see Sanders as his
four to forty five. But it's like, yeah, but yeah,
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but either you had them on upset alert or you
expected them to win by forty seemed to be the
story of that game. And then they lose in Nebraska
and get handled pretty easily. The Colorado State game had
a bunch of emotion to it, a lot of trash
talk all of that, the handshake, that wasn't all of that.
But they win twenty eight to nine convincingly, and the
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last two weeks wins over Baylor and a decisive win
before the bye week against Central Florida.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
And you know what was different there? They ran the ball.
They ran the ball.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
They absolutely bludgeoned them in that forty eight to twenty
one because they were a huge underdog in that one, right,
and that was it was a game.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
It was it was a big spot. And it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
what do we get?
Speaker 3 (39:47):
We're getting offensive balance now, and now you get this
game against k State. They've got two more games against
ranked teams as we sit here. You've got this one
versus k State at home. Tickets one hundred and fifty
bucks forgetting Are you kidding? Prime time for prime You
know it was thirty two years ago yesterday that he
played in two sports as a profession on the same day.
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And then they've got Utah a month from now, currently
number sixteen. Otherwise, looking at a stretch where all of
a sudden, shaduor Sanders with an offensive line that's playing better.
Why because they're also running the ball more effectively sort
of getting ahead of down and distance. Shador's not running
for his life on third down and and and you
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know it's makeable throws. He doesn't have to sit in
the pocket like a sitting duck. Now you got the
other receiver stepping up. Yeah, the balance that is there.
This line opened, Colorado getting six, it's down to three
and a half.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah, it's it's hard for me to see them losing
this game. I can't. I can't see them with a
chance to get back in the national conversation. This is
one of those emotional games where it's a tidal wave
for Colorado go to be talking about them beginning and
next week again and talking about their playoff possibilities. Give
me Colorado and that bold prediction tomorrow. Let's go. Uh.
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of the night in sports. Keep it right here, Jason
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