November 3, 2022 • 38 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to the Astros tying the World Series up at 2 games apiece. Although there was a no-hitter, Jason and Mike say it’s still hard to get excited about a team like the Astros who have been marred in infamy for their cheating scandal. They explain why MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred missed the mark on not punishing the Astros. Plus, the guys discuss Dan Snyder and the potential sale of the Washington Commanders and more!
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buying should be number four into a big controversy surrounding
the World Series. You just saw the no hitter pitched
by the Astros. Uh, it's funny you play you keep
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playing that Mets thing all the time. Uh? Do you
watch Abbot Elementary? Remember I tells you that show that's
it's Yeah. The principle. Oh my god, the principle on
it is absolutely hysterical. It's like every time she shows
up on camera, I want to laugh. I mean, she's
so funny. But like last week they had a scene,
a quick scene where one of the other characters is
teaching her class, and he's teaching her class about money,
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and she's, okay, so if you have five dollars and
your friend has fifteen dollars, how much money does your
friend ohe you if he borrows seven? Right, like something
like that. She's how much money does she have if
your friend borrows seven? And then she says, and if
it's someone like your brother who owes you ten grand
because he keeps back in the Jets, you're gonna need
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to make some more money. And I was like, wow, man,
the Jets and the Mets, they just just take it
in the teeth all the time. Man, just keeping kicked
in the teeth. Bam, bam bam. It's not just for
Larry David any more. No, it's not the Jet. The
Jets killed Carl. That's that's a fine show. So Frostburg,
you know, we wouldn't play the final call the Astros
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no hitter because it's the Astros and fearing we didn't
have it. No, no, no, no angry no, no, no,
we haven't and and and and Frostburg. Hop on. Here
you're actually getting text from people telling you not to
play the fun about twelve of them and counting. Don't
you play it? Don't you dare what? I'm actually not
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going to listen to all these people and I'm gonna
let you go to it. Really, Wait, how many people
of those texts you is Dave Roberts? How many of
those I don't talk to Dave Roberts anymore anymore after
what he did this year? Okay, okay, we're done, all right,
So you actually getting don't do it because it's the as. Look,
it's polarizing, it's it's history in the world series, and
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it's something we've ever seen. No one's ever We always
want to see things we've never seen before, right, and
we've never seen this, and we see it. But it's
the Astros. I don't think it matters. It's a fact.
It's a that it's a combined no hitter, it's still
a no hitter, but it's the Astros. And people still
don't forgive the no one's ever gonna no, no no, no.
But here here's the thing that I think is the
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the larger part of it. Right, if we're still gonna
be mad about the everybody turning a blind eye to
the steroid era, the p E. D S, whatever guys
were ingesting during that part of things, how baseball the reporters,
the broadcasters, other players all just kind of like someone
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else will say something. Uh, and then twenty five years later,
everybody wants to wag their fingers and talk about how
dirty and tainted it all was. You can't tell me
this has gone after four years, right, You can't just say, oh,
you know what that was yesterday, that's okay, that's all right.
And the players did they get uh no, then nothing
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happened to them. Uh, manager got fired, okay, front office
you know, they got fined someone. Okay, they were told
not to do it again and said it was shameful.
A tersely worded letter. You know, if this doesn't tell
Rob Manfred how much he biffed that decision, nothing will.
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Because here's a no hitter and Metal Jason. It said,
I want to give it to a deserving owner. Uh,
it's a no hitter in the world series, and it's polarizing.
The only fans who should really be upset our Phillies fans,
because well, we got no hit and the World Series
is tied one night after we had a guy tipping
pitches and we had five home runs the next night.
When they're not tipping pitches, we can't get a bleep
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in it. Now. Now, remember remember the Astros and and
everybody that supported them saying, just because you know what's
coming doesn't mean that you're at any advantage to hit it.
So take that tipping pitches thing and let's extend it back.
That's that's like saying, Hey, that's like saying, if you
take in a test in school, if you know what
the question is, that's not an advantage for you to
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get it right. Like here, you got ten questions coming up,
but you're gonna know what the questions are beforehand. Oh
that's gonna help me. No, you still got from still
gotta right, You still gotta write the answers. They still
gonna know who won the War of Eight Team Twell,
you think of all those sitcoms and those teen dramas
that we watched where the that was the worst thing.
Oh he got the stole the answers and stole the
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questions before the test. If there's a van outside with
guys in it beating the answer through a near piece,
it's definitely not cheating. We'll have the Marquis de Lafayette,
Marquis de Lafayette, Marquis de Lafayette. I mean, seriously, if
this doesn't tell you how much he blew that decision,
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because this is never gonna go away. I mean his
his era as a commissioner is going to be defined
by I didn't punish the Astros who cheated to win
two World Series, and fans are never gonna forget it.
Had he punished them, had he said, you know what,
I get, the Astro's got to give back the World
Series and and everybody who was involved gets a big
long suspension. Had he done that at this point, all right, boy,
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the Astros. Really the story would be look at them
coming back from nothing. Look at this team coming back
after winning everything they put in to win the World Series.
They had it taken away. Players almost had their livelihood
taken away. Everybody who was involved in this, you'll be
a managers lose their job. It would be look at
look at the the resurgence of the Astros. They had
absolutely nothing, and they built it back up in there
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on the cusp of winning another World series. That's what
the narrative would be. Now, that's how we'd be talking
about the Astros. Look, hey, they were, but when you're
not punished, it's hard to forgive somebody. You can't you
can't ever forgive somebody. It's if you have a friend,
and let's just say there was an instance where you're
out one night and there's a little bit of back
and forth and and and somebody starts a fight with you,
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and a couple of guys start hitting you, and your
best friend does a jump in with you, and and
and you get beat up and your friends says, hey,
I'm sorry, man, I just didn't want to fight and
everything else. Are you ever gonna let that go? No,
you said, hey, you disappointed me. You had a chance
to come and help me, and you didn't. You're never
gonna get over that. It's never gonna be the same,
whether it's two months from then, a year from then,
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five years from then, he's always gonna be Yeah, that's
the guy who didn't step up with me and help
me out. When two guys jumped me when we were
at a bar that night. When when something bad happens
that people don't have to take responsibility for, they're never
gonna be forgiven. And that's why we are where we
are right now at the Astros, because he went so
light on it. No one's gonna forgive them. Yes, the
starting infield is the same starting infield. A lot of
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other players are different, but it's still so fresh in
everybody's mind, and we know they didn't get punished. So
when they pitch up Bleep and combined no hitter in
the World Series, it's huge for history. But boy, it's
hard for people to get really excited and say, Man,
the Astros, I can't believe they did it. It's more Wow,
he had a no hitter? Did it have to be
the Astros? That's the that's the reaction of every single
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baseball fan. I'll tell you right now. No, And that's
the larger thing. He at least if we've gotten a
strongly worded, um piece together kind of film thing like
kennessa Mountain Landis and Eight Men Out, even without the
Lifetime band, Uh, you'd at least feel like he did
something because he was at least mad at them. Rob
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Manford's like, everybody's good, nobody got hurt the hunk of
metal and we'll move on, right. I Mean, that's really
all that kind of happened, uh in that process. And
that's the sad thing for a game that you know,
we we've grown up loving one that we we debate
all the time, good, bad, ugly, And people can cite
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attendance figures or whatever all you want, you still have
a problem in terms of your the age of your
average fan, and things like this turn off the the
folks that have held this sport near and deer. I'm
not talking no hit or up to sucking, you know,
owing back five years ago. But it but it lightens tonight, right,
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it takes it away because you had the uniform and
and look, we watched it and there was a dominant effort,
as we talked about a little bit earlier, No real
um great plays to save it. I'm just a dominant
pitching performance, uh, and a lackluster effort at the plate. Uh.
And for the Astros, how how many innings did they
need to get runners on base before they finally broke through?
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Like they're gonna blow this because they're not breaking through,
and then they have one big inning. But it's for
for Baseball to kind of wrap their arms around this.
You tried to sweep it under the rug, and fans
are still mad, you know, for guys like you because
you're a Mets guy. Uh, you can't cheer for anybody
in this and that's not good. Uh. Brights Harper, you
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know a guy that we we've known about since he
was what thirteen, uh, and then all the stuff up
until nineteen and and here he is on the cusp
of perhaps, you know, finally breaking through winning the World Series.
You know, you like when that promise uh, in the
in those guys that were heralded that early break through.
But now you've got this no hit or mixed in it,
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and I don't think they're gonna put it happen. It happened,
It's it's gonna stay. It's out. Yeah. I mean you
can put the asterisk next to it because you don't
like that. It wasn't a single performer asterisk. It was
the bleeping Astros. It was the Astros. Double asterisk. It
took a bunch of relievers to come in and finish
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it off. Triple asterisk. Frostburg still won't play the final call.
You gotta toss about final call. Gave you permission, I said,
I wasn't gonna listen to all the people that were saying,
don't pay. Yeah, he's gonna take his headphones off series
after all. Yeah, he's gonna go get a smoke break.
Any first responder will tell you never try to beat
the train after breaking and take a mile for a
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train to completely stop. So when you come to a
rail crossing, stop because trains can't. Okay, So here's the
final call, World Series, the first no hitter basically set
it up for real, like like you mean it okay, alright,
like I thought I was setting it up like I
meant it all right. Differently, give it deserves hey. For
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the first time ever on Fox Sports Radio, we recently
celebrated our one anniversary. First time you have ever heard
a no hitter from the World Series the call here
on Fox Sports Radio. This has never happened before in
the history of the world Big Bang, all those millions
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of years ago, fast forward to two I mean many
years where we didn't keep track of the calendar because
there were no humans and dinosaurs didn't keep calendars. But
the first time final call of a no hitter in
the World Series here on Fox Sports Radio Heater Sets.
Here's the pitch. Sato has got it, swings it across
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the first end time, But Paul game is over, and
a one hundred and one win season for the New
York Mets, which featured such excitement and carried such promise,
ends an extremely disappointing fashion as they are beating in
the wild Card Series two games to one by the
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San Diego Padres. Really, honestly, I really thought I was
getting the Bud Fumble. I didn't know I was getting
at Well or Buckner or Yeah. I wasn't get anything
positive toward me. I was getting something negative. You know what.
You weren't getting the truth final call. I can't believe
Tyshert actually knew who Josh Hayter was. To look up
that highlight A hater? You say, Hayter? Is it h
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a Bill Hayter? Is it Bill? I got? I got
Bill Hayter highlights? Is Alan all the impression? Uh? Yeah,
So I guess so, I guess we're not really we're
not getting the we're not getting the final called the
World Series. Well, you know it was it was a
good try to quaking. I mean you tried as a competent, professional,
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long standing host here a great repute at Fox Spores Radio.
We'll see, we'll see if anybody texts Frostburg say play
that audio. But sometimes it's good to know. Um, well
you know your place, Jason Don Martin can text me.
I'm not playing it, my man. We are a news
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organization and you are not gonna not play it. Well,
you know what, though we did give the update, we
did give the news. You answer the bat phone, hey
Ki shirt no no no no, no, no, no no
no on a batman. So congratulations, Rob Manfred, you just
wrought this last twelve minutes of radio. This is on you,
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all on you Manfred. Wait again, he gets the shame bell.
Way to go, Rob Manfred. This is why had you
just done your job as commissioner, things would be friend
and this wouldn't dog you for your entire professional life.
I just don't like that to me. Folks try to
brush this way. That's so far in the past, Like
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is it really you know what I mean, in the past,
like it happens. Perfect game is far in the pot.
But that but that's the point. Right, it is that
this is a very recent piece and as you point
out the infields, they're waving at you, right, and we're
part of this game and are part of this world
series in season. So to say hey, it's it's dead
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and gone. No no, no, no, no, that's not gone
until the final year of eligibility and any possible Veterans
Committee voting in of players associated with this has expired.
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to beat a train after breaking. It could take a
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to a rail crossing stop because trains can't. Now with
this no hitter, that we saw complete and total baseball history,
sports history for the first time ever. Like I said,
you think about the the no hitter You've been hearing
your whole life. If you've ever heard Don Larson's name once,
you know, perfect game in the World Series, right, that
did perfect game in the World Series. One of the
most famous baseball players ever had one moment in the sun.
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My entire life. I've heard about Don Larson, Don like everybody,
Don Larson, Don Larson. But we see it tonight and
we see it came by no hitter from four Astros pictures,
and I'm already uh seeing some of the questions being
asked about why the pitching change for the Astros. Javier
was the first picture since nineteen sixty nine to go
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six innings and no hits in a World Series game. Oh,
by the way, yes, the last guy who did it
was met Jerry Kuzman in Game two a the Couiser.
So Javier goes six innings and he comes out of
the game right there. Yeah, White Sox legend, Yes, Jerry
white Sock, whether they played for the White Sox or not.
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White socks legend. He did well, it doesn't matter. Yeah,
but it doesn't matter if you'd say Ted Williams White
Sox legend, white side, why well it socks and great game,
White socks legend, Tom Brady White Sox legend. That's everybody,
White Sox legend. Uh. So, Javier comes out after six
innings and nine seven pitches, nine strike ups. Why didn't
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you let him stay in? Jason, you've talked about Clayton
Kerk show White is in for a perfect game. Hold
on a second, this is something there's no debate on,
all right. Number one, Remember you are trying to win
the World Series. That is the only goal. Number That
is the only goal you have is winning the World Series.
That's it. Everything else is secondary. Oh, we got a
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guy who could have all these home runs you get no. No,
You're winning the World Series. That's it. That's the only goal.
Javier was through six innings at nineties seven pitches. All right,
he was gonna have to go another three innings to
win this game. It is November. What's November three? November three? Okay,
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nobody throws a hundred and thirty pitches, a dred and
forty pitches on November three, it doesn't happen. He had
less than zero chance of finishing this no hitter. He
just didn't. He had there was a bigger chance that
the Phillies would rally against him as he got tired
than it was of him finishing this game. And we've
all seen the Phillies. You put a couple of hits together,
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suddenly citizens Bank starts getting crazy, a little raucous. There's
a three run homer. Now it's five three and we're
in the eighth thinning. Remember, you are trying to win
the World Series. There was no chance of Javier completing this,
absolutely none. So yeah, you gotta take him out at
ninety seven pitches. You don't even want to put him
in there and go, hey, a couple of batters get on. No,
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you don't want that. No, I think you gotta walk
and a hit. No, no, no, no, no, you gotta
win the World Pitches is a lot, and that's when
you have to make that move because you know what's
going to happen. This is the right move by Dusty Baker,
and it was the right time to do it nine,
especially since again November three is not April or May fourth,
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and It's not an average regular season game. This is
November three, World Series. You have pitched an entire season,
all right. Your arm is not gonna give you the
innings you thought. No one pitches big time complete games
in the World Series anymore. It just doesn't happen. You've
already had Javier over the course of this season, uh
in In in his in his time pitching go a
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hundred and forty eight innings, which was a career high
for him. He's never pitched that many in all three
years of Major League baseball. So now you've blown past
a career high for somebody and you're into the World Series. Yeah,
you only get so much six dominant innings from him,
but it was the right call to go to the
bullpen because you had to go to the bullpen. Buddy.
You're bullpen has been brilliant the entire postseason, all the
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way through the year. It's arguably the chief strength of
this squad when you get down to it. So if
Dusty Baker, and again this is Dusty Baker who used
to trust starters way too deep. He learned his lessons
with those Cubs pitchers way back in the day. Too
many innings too many pitches, too many arm injuries not
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gonna happen here. You got a guy that was near
to a hundred pitches, had given you everything he possibly could.
You've established a lead. Now it's time to hand it
over to the guys who've gotten you into the World
Series to finish the job. And what did they do?
They finished the job. You can be mad about it.
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And yes, the circumstances between a regular season game or
even the first round of the playoffs is not the same,
particularly when you've got a veteran pitcher as well. Like there,
there's so many different variables to these things. And in Philadelphia,
like you said, you don't want to open the door.
We've watched it. Go a ride, go back to game one,
go back to what Verlander was doing dealing and just
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like that, it went to hell very quickly. You're not
opening the door against particularly down two games to one. Twitter,
and how about a fresca Mike gets swollen down there. Really,
there's no debate on this topic, absolutely none. Any first
responder will tell you never try to beat a train
after breaking It could take a mile for a train
to completely stop. So when you come to a rail
crossing stop, because trains can't coming up in ninety seconds.
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Monster Blanios has what's trending in the wide world of sports,
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update on a game I think you had money on earlier.
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How stressed you were watching it unfold in front of you.
I'm actually doing the exact same thing right now. I
was standing because the Grizzlies and the Trailblazers were also
going down to the wire. But it looks like the Grizzlies.
I mean, they have about twenty five seconds left. The
Grizzlies are up by four. Trailblazers have the ball. We'll
see how it goes, but I don't think they have
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enough time. The Blazers do have the ball three seconds left,
they are down by four. Another exciting game, the Pelicans
and the Lakers one hundred to ninety nine with about
five and a half minutes to tacos. What happens if
you missed two free throws, you get tacos or what
they got to hold them under one ten and get
the dub. Yeah, what's that? Is that? Likeway that may
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never happen at all this year to win and hold
them under one to just happened the last game. Last game.
You just saw it. You're not going to see it again.
That's your one for your mouth thing, like like like
a Lakers thing. If you go to the game, you
get free tacos? Or is this like like can I
get it? Even the online of Lakers fan? Can I
go get tacos? Where do I get to a Lakers fan?
You can't get You go to Tie Shirt's house and
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you'll make special tacos that have no meat and no flour,
no tortillos. It's crazy. It's just lettuce and tomato. Hey,
okay in cardboard. No, not at all, not at all?
Can I know? But I get like, is this that
dal taco they have beyond meat? I could do it there. No,
it's in the box. Ah, well that's fake meat, guys.
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I don't definitely not a sponsor anymore. That's always been
the rumor that there are tacos have like actually very
little meat and that there are more veggies in there.
That's no, no no, no, they're delicious. They'licious. If if I
wanted a salad, I would ordered those toungos are delicious.
I I'm not talking tack on the tacos. Those are
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really good. I haven't had them in years, but they
were delicious at two in the morning, that's for sure. Guys,
tie game Pelicans Lakers one o one, five minutes to go.
We're still in a time out the other game, so
I'll let you know if they know. Still time out
one oh seven to one oh four Grizzlies Troubleizers still
twenty three seconds to go. Earlier though, Yes, the game
that I was watching was the Calves and the Celtics
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that went into overtime. The Calves they've won six in
a row. They beat the Celtics one feen to one thirteen.
And it wasn't even Donovan Mitchell that had the best
game for the Calves of Mysterious Garland, who was his
first game back since being out with that injured because
he couldn't see anything. He had twenty nine points, five rebounds,
and twelve assists in the Calves win. The Heat and
the Kings were tied at one ten with twelve seconds ago.
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But the Heat, I mean they have their own hero
in Tyler Hero, who lived up to his name and
scored the go ahead three pointer to put the Heat
up one thirteen to one ten. He ended with twenty
six points, twelve rebounds, and one steal. We also had
victories from the Hawks, the Clippers, the Mavericks, the Bulls,
the Bucks, the Raptors, they all had victories. And the
Wizards who topped the seventies sixers who were playing without
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Joel the night. No, no, no, the Hawks knocked them off. Yeah,
one twelve to ninety nine. Jan Murray let Atlanta with
thirty six points for rebounds, nine a six and six steals.
And then I don't know if you guys heard, but
there was a combined no hitter. Apparently it was like
a big deal. First one since nineteen fifty six in
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the World Series game by the Astros, who shut out
the Phillies five zero in Game four. So Game five
is gonna be tomorrow in Philadelphia, same game time, first pitch,
except for eight oh three, eight oh three, that's so
weird eight o three pm Eastern time. The game is
on Fox justin Berland, or will be on the mound
for Houston and Noah's synder Guard gets the start for Phillis. Yeah. Yeah,
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get to watch Noah Syndard in the World Series for
another team. Yeah, And we were talking free You guys
were talking about Reese Hoskins wife Jamie Hoskins, who bought
beers for fans yesterday. So apparently she bought fifty beers
for fans yesterday and then tonight she bought a hundred beers.
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How about work out? I don't care. That's such a
great gesture. What are you talking about? Good? You go, girl,
buy beers for everybody you lost. At least everybody got
free beer. Tomorrow's got to be two on it, right?
It was fifty right now? She hasked to or go
back down to fifty. Sorry, we won when we had
fifties fifty I'm sorry exactly. Or make it one fifty.
But I mean she's dropping thousands of dollars for these fans.
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That's a nice yeah. Yeah yeah, And could he Stan
have yet, who led the no hitter for the Astros,
was asked after the game by Ken Rosenthal of the
MLB Network, like, oh, when when did you know this
is gonna be a big game. Uh, and the guy
he responded in Spanish, and he said, my parents told me,
who are here at the game, told me that I
was going to pitch a no hitter before the game.
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Only accounted, Wow, they told me I was gonna pitch
hitter today. He probably his parents probably thought it was
just like, oh, you're gonna whatever you do, you're gonna
you're gonna pitch a no hitter. But he said his
parents said that to him before the game started. They said, Oh,
and also, don't tip your pitches like bleeping the colors
last night. Okay, exactly exactly, but they didn't bleep it
out in Spanish. We just say it, you know that
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high like kick. Everybody knew what was coming. Okay, colors,
all right back to you. Thanks show with Mike Carmen.
Any first responder will tell you never try to be
the train after breaking. Could take a mile for a
train to completely stops when you come to a rail
crossing stop, because trains can't. All right, now without further ado,
Now we're gonna actually play it, not this final call
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that Frostburg still doesn't want to play because it's the astros. Uh.
This is Kyle Schwarber. Of the Phillies following tonight's game again,
Phillies get no hit by the Astros game for the
World Series? Absolute baseball history. This is Schwarber on the
no hitter to be part of this end of face
plus story. Just how does it feel when writing checking
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World Series? No? No, I really don't get no move
on tomorrow. That's cool. We'll be in the history books.
I guess. How do you ask him that question? Dude?
I know you just lost the World Series? But how
cool is it to be part of history? How do
you ask? Of smiles? And he laughs and now that quick,
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let's play it again so we can hear his answer again?
What won't it be part of this end of face
plus S three? Just how does it feel when you writing?
Checking World Series? No? No, I really don't get no
move on tomorrow. That's cool. We'll be in the history bucks.
I guess feel be a part of baseball history? What now? What? What? Dude?
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What are you gonna do like when you when you retired? Going? Man,
Remember we got no hit in the World Series? That
was so cool. I was oh for three with three strikeouts.
That was such a cool night man. That was They
came into our park and throw a no hit or
our fans were crazy? Oh that was that was something?
I mean, how do you say that? Has it feel
to be go into the Houston locker room and you
asked the the s, the guys on the Astros that
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question because they were actually part of history? This is
not this is like, this is like asking Kyle Shanhan
and Matt Ryan boy the biggest comeback in Super Bowl
history by the New England Patriots, has it feel to
be a part of NFL history? What's it? What's be
on the other side is Tom Brady and company and
your offensive plate calling down the stretch. Let's talk about
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that a little bit while we're at it. Shall we know?
In this case? I guess you if you're shore, but
you can all have just said can I monetize it? Like?
What does it do for me? Onward to tomorrow? But
the questions that you're gonna get, yeah, they're they're gonna
border un absurd, Right, It's like, all right, is it
it's just just like another loss? I guess I guess
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that's the only other way you can frame it. Is
it like another loss? Or is this when he hit harder?
Or whatever? Is what you're trying to get at, but instead, Hey,
you're part of baseball history. Pretty cool, right, isn't that cool? Man?
That's just awesome? Yeah? Hey, Matt Ryan, how did it
feel to blow with three lead in Super Bowl? Part
of history now, Matt? Yeah, I guess we'll be in
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history books many we're on to tomorrow. What did you
think of the performance of Sam Ellinger after he was
elevated to the starting role? His performance? But I think
of his performance? How do you say that? Hey, Boston Celtics,
how do you feel about just getting worked after Game
one of the NBA Finals? Right? That? And the Warriors
win another title? In Steph Crad, how do you feel
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about being part of history like that? Really? You gotta
I get it that. You know, you get caught up
in the whole history part of it, but not when
you have something historical. The reason you have something historical
is because there is one side where it's historical four
and the other side kind of makes the historical part
happen because they failed. So that's not two people. You
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want to ask him about being a part of history?
Ding Ning Ning Ning Ning, you got it? And if
you haven't seen the video, his facial expression is incredible.
I bet it. I can't believe the answer. I mean
that honestly, even though he cursed that. That's I mean
because you would see guys go are you serious with them?
And that's a cloud question? Bro Cad you imagine? Hey, Bryce,
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how do you feel about being a part of it?
How do you feel that after a night after you
guys had five home runs because you knew what was coming,
you didn't know what was coming tonight and you guys
didn't score? How did that feel? Normally you get punched
in the face for asking that? How did that feel?
How did that feel? Bryce? How did that feel? Brice?
Bryce can tell right? Bryce? You actually in Alaska, you
actually were walked tonight. How does that feel to walk
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in the game where you got no hit? How does
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Game four the World Series coming up in about ten minutes.
But an absolutely huge NFL story today that is Look,
I will say this, Daniel Snyder at this point, to
to quote doctor Strange, is in the end game. All right,
it's it's now just a matter of time until Daniel
Snyder is no longer owner of the Washington Commanders. All Right,
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you probably woke up today and saw the big breaking story.
WHOA the Snyders. Daniel Snyder and and his wife have
hired Bank of America to exp floor potential transactions involving
the team. Now this didn't mean they were selling the team.
It could have been we're selling a minority stake in
the team because they want to be able to build
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that new stadium. Because if he builds a new stadium,
maybe he gets to stay on his owner that's been
a big thing that's keeping him down. So it could
be both. Like when this story first came out, I said, well,
I think Snyder can see the writing on the wall.
He knows he doesn't have the support of the owners
that he thought he had and they could really vote
him out. So let me explore this now and if
I can get other owners on board, minority owners on board,
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then I can build the stadium. Maybe I can get
people to my side. If worse comes to worse and
they want to come in and buy the team, I'll
sell the team. So so this look to me like, Okay,
we have to pursue both of these avenues. We could
sell the team, we could sell a stake in it,
because we still want to try to pull out a
Hail Mary and save this right. So that was I'm like, Okay,
that's that's where it's going. And then this story breaks
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that the Snyders are being investigated or the commanders are
being investigated over alleged financial improprieties. The U. S. Attorney's
Office in the Eastern District of Virginia has opened a
criminal investigation into allegations that the commanders engage in financial improprieties.
These were two sources reporting this to ESPN. The prosecutors
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are focused on several areas, and inquiry was triggered by
a letter the House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent
to the Federal Trade Commission and several attorneys general in
April that alleged their deceptive business practices. So here's Daniel Snyder.
Now it looks like, hey, I gotta get out there.
We may sell the team because I don't know when
this story is gonna break them being investigated for financial improprieties.
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Oh it's an hour later. Oh it's an hour later
that this is coming out. Uh, he's in the endgame,
and now that this is not going to end in
any other way than Daniel Snyder selling the Washington Commanders.
It's gonna happen right now, whether or not it is
something that happens in the next couple of months, whether
it happens in the next year, whether he agrees to
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sell the team before or after this investigation ends, that's
where we are right now. We're in the endgame. It's
just going to happen, and Daniel Snyder is gonna eventually
be not the owner of the Commanders. Now does something
else happen to him? Does he get brought up on charges?
There are criminal case? Is there a trial? That's all
to be seen. But the football perspective of it, which was, hey,
how does this guy continue to own the team when
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he's had all kinds of controversy that his team has
been riddled with for the past decade, including all the
allegations of of uh sexual improprieties. That have been going
on in in in the team for a long time.
Now we're at that point where it's just going to
end with him selling the team. He's gonna make money, yes,
it's gonna happen, but he's not going to be part
of the National Football League. Yeah, it's the curiosity this story,
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or at least part of it with regard to withholding
uh ticket revenue. This was brought up back in April,
so this has been sitting awhile good six months plus
at this point, if we do the base math alongside
you know what other potential financial improprieties there where we
know of all those other allegations, and team executives have
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gone out of their way to say, hey, it's a
different world that we're living in here. Ron Rivera stood
up there uncomfortably but put his name behind it of hey,
he and Jason Wright and others saying, hey, it's a
it's a different world and we're operating above board and
all those things that we're part of the organization are
no longer. But yeah, that the of the net home
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ticket sales are supposed to be shared with the rest
of the league, and evidently part of this report and
investigation is that they withheld uh and underreported those numbers
along the way. You can go back on the videotape
and just count empty seats as you need to, I guess, uh.
But not to be glib about it. It is serious
(36:01):
because you're you're curious of what else is being alleged here. Right,
you got parts of it, but now it's all right,
let's get through all the books. Let's go comb through
all of it. Meanwhile, they're on their their yacht and
so people were doing the like Norad with Santa Claus.
Here's the tracker of them in the Mediterranean. Uh. And
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you're you're looking at at the League of well, what's
their stance because there Roger Goodell has made some big statements,
but there hasn't been a lot of action to this point.
And you're talking about a guy with a lot of
cloud and he's done the because he's in the news.
Matthew Perry Chandler bing thing of if I'm going down,
I'm taking all of you with me kind of thing
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to the other owners. So you know, we used the
phrasing in terms of the commanders. Where there's smoke, there's
probably some fire going on there I wonder how much
of that Snyder can can blow over to the other houses,
to the to the other owners as that goes. So
curious to see what the next steps are. But once
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the government gets involved, that's usually not good. Yeah, that's it.
I mean, I don't know how long it's going to
be because if there's an investigation, will they hold the
sale forever long? Because we've seen that you could sell
a team and you can come to terms on it
and relatively short time. But because this is going on,
does this mean it could get delayed? Is this investigation
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gonna be six months? Is that eight months? Is the
selling of the team gonna be in limbo while it's happening?
So all of these things are are are going on
right now, So it I don't know when it's going
to end, but you know that how it's eventually going
to end. It's like watching a horror movie that you
know just isn't gonna end well for everybody involved. You
could watch and go, oh man, this is just gonna
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end badly. This is gonna end badly, And it's kind
of how I know it's going to end. I know
how it's going to end, but the amount of time
and how it gets there, that's still gonna be up
in the air. And really the legal part of it's
gonna be what holds it up. Because if there was
no egal situation, people wanted to come into buy the team.
This could happen in a month, right, you can get
silent bids or and and however you you they wanted
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to go about the business of being able to do it,
they could solicit the bids. Bank of America could take
care of this, and and by the beginning of December
we could know who's gonna own the Washington Commanders. But
it's gonna be a little bit longer than it might
be into the spring, might even be into the summer.
But that's how the story is ending. Yeah, just a
question of you know, does it go to Ersay and
all the other owners to to really force the issue, right,
so they make that declarative statement for once and for all? Uh?
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buying should be number four into a big controversy surrounding
the World Series. You just saw the no hitter pitched
by the Astros. Uh, it's funny you play you keep
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playing that Mets thing all the time. Uh? Do you
watch Abbot Elementary? Remember I tells you that show that's
it's Yeah. The principle. Oh my god, the principle on
it is absolutely hysterical. It's like every time she shows
up on camera, I want to laugh. I mean, she's
so funny. But like last week they had a scene,
a quick scene where one of the other characters is
teaching her class, and he's teaching her class about money,
(01:28):
and she's, okay, so if you have five dollars and
your friend has fifteen dollars, how much money does your
friend ohe you if he borrows seven? Right, like something
like that. She's how much money does she have if
your friend borrows seven? And then she says, and if
it's someone like your brother who owes you ten grand
because he keeps back in the Jets, you're gonna need
(01:49):
to make some more money. And I was like, wow, man,
the Jets and the Mets, they just just take it
in the teeth all the time. Man, just keeping kicked
in the teeth. Bam, bam bam. It's not just for
Larry David any more. No, it's not the Jet. The
Jets killed Carl. That's that's a fine show. So Frostburg,
you know, we wouldn't play the final call the Astros
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no hitter because it's the Astros and fearing we didn't
have it. No, no, no, no angry no, no, no,
we haven't and and and and Frostburg. Hop on. Here
you're actually getting text from people telling you not to
play the fun about twelve of them and counting. Don't
you play it? Don't you dare what? I'm actually not
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going to listen to all these people and I'm gonna
let you go to it. Really, Wait, how many people
of those texts you is Dave Roberts? How many of
those I don't talk to Dave Roberts anymore anymore after
what he did this year? Okay, okay, we're done, all right,
So you actually getting don't do it because it's the as. Look,
it's polarizing, it's it's history in the world series, and
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it's something we've ever seen. No one's ever We always
want to see things we've never seen before, right, and
we've never seen this, and we see it. But it's
the Astros. I don't think it matters. It's a fact.
It's a that it's a combined no hitter, it's still
a no hitter, but it's the Astros. And people still
don't forgive the no one's ever gonna no, no no, no.
But here here's the thing that I think is the
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the larger part of it. Right, if we're still gonna
be mad about the everybody turning a blind eye to
the steroid era, the p E. D S, whatever guys
were ingesting during that part of things, how baseball the reporters,
the broadcasters, other players all just kind of like someone
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else will say something. Uh, and then twenty five years later,
everybody wants to wag their fingers and talk about how
dirty and tainted it all was. You can't tell me
this has gone after four years, right, You can't just say, oh,
you know what that was yesterday, that's okay, that's all right.
And the players did they get uh no, then nothing
(04:00):
happened to them. Uh, manager got fired, okay, front office
you know, they got fined someone. Okay, they were told
not to do it again and said it was shameful.
A tersely worded letter. You know, if this doesn't tell
Rob Manfred how much he biffed that decision, nothing will.
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Because here's a no hitter and Metal Jason. It said,
I want to give it to a deserving owner. Uh,
it's a no hitter in the world series, and it's polarizing.
The only fans who should really be upset our Phillies fans,
because well, we got no hit and the World Series
is tied one night after we had a guy tipping
pitches and we had five home runs the next night.
When they're not tipping pitches, we can't get a bleep
(04:43):
in it. Now. Now, remember remember the Astros and and
everybody that supported them saying, just because you know what's
coming doesn't mean that you're at any advantage to hit it.
So take that tipping pitches thing and let's extend it back.
That's that's like saying, Hey, that's like saying, if you
take in a test in school, if you know what
the question is, that's not an advantage for you to
(05:04):
get it right. Like here, you got ten questions coming up,
but you're gonna know what the questions are beforehand. Oh
that's gonna help me. No, you still got from still
gotta right, You still gotta write the answers. They still
gonna know who won the War of Eight Team Twell,
you think of all those sitcoms and those teen dramas
that we watched where the that was the worst thing.
Oh he got the stole the answers and stole the
(05:25):
questions before the test. If there's a van outside with
guys in it beating the answer through a near piece,
it's definitely not cheating. We'll have the Marquis de Lafayette,
Marquis de Lafayette, Marquis de Lafayette. I mean, seriously, if
this doesn't tell you how much he blew that decision,
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because this is never gonna go away. I mean his
his era as a commissioner is going to be defined
by I didn't punish the Astros who cheated to win
two World Series, and fans are never gonna forget it.
Had he punished them, had he said, you know what,
I get, the Astro's got to give back the World
Series and and everybody who was involved gets a big
long suspension. Had he done that at this point, all right, boy,
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the Astros. Really the story would be look at them
coming back from nothing. Look at this team coming back
after winning everything they put in to win the World Series.
They had it taken away. Players almost had their livelihood
taken away. Everybody who was involved in this, you'll be
a managers lose their job. It would be look at
look at the the resurgence of the Astros. They had
absolutely nothing, and they built it back up in there
(06:34):
on the cusp of winning another World series. That's what
the narrative would be. Now, that's how we'd be talking
about the Astros. Look, hey, they were, but when you're
not punished, it's hard to forgive somebody. You can't you
can't ever forgive somebody. It's if you have a friend,
and let's just say there was an instance where you're
out one night and there's a little bit of back
and forth and and and somebody starts a fight with you,
(06:57):
and a couple of guys start hitting you, and your
best friend does a jump in with you, and and
and you get beat up and your friends says, hey,
I'm sorry, man, I just didn't want to fight and
everything else. Are you ever gonna let that go? No,
you said, hey, you disappointed me. You had a chance
to come and help me, and you didn't. You're never
gonna get over that. It's never gonna be the same,
whether it's two months from then, a year from then,
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five years from then, he's always gonna be Yeah, that's
the guy who didn't step up with me and help
me out. When two guys jumped me when we were
at a bar that night. When when something bad happens
that people don't have to take responsibility for, they're never
gonna be forgiven. And that's why we are where we
are right now at the Astros, because he went so
light on it. No one's gonna forgive them. Yes, the
starting infield is the same starting infield. A lot of
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other players are different, but it's still so fresh in
everybody's mind, and we know they didn't get punished. So
when they pitch up Bleep and combined no hitter in
the World Series, it's huge for history. But boy, it's
hard for people to get really excited and say, Man,
the Astros, I can't believe they did it. It's more Wow,
he had a no hitter? Did it have to be
the Astros? That's the that's the reaction of every single
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baseball fan. I'll tell you right now. No, And that's
the larger thing. He at least if we've gotten a
strongly worded, um piece together kind of film thing like
kennessa Mountain Landis and Eight Men Out, even without the
Lifetime band, Uh, you'd at least feel like he did
something because he was at least mad at them. Rob
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Manford's like, everybody's good, nobody got hurt the hunk of
metal and we'll move on, right. I Mean, that's really
all that kind of happened, uh in that process. And
that's the sad thing for a game that you know,
we we've grown up loving one that we we debate
all the time, good, bad, ugly, And people can cite
(08:44):
attendance figures or whatever all you want, you still have
a problem in terms of your the age of your
average fan, and things like this turn off the the
folks that have held this sport near and deer. I'm
not talking no hit or up to sucking, you know,
owing back five years ago. But it but it lightens tonight, right,
(09:05):
it takes it away because you had the uniform and
and look, we watched it and there was a dominant effort,
as we talked about a little bit earlier, No real
um great plays to save it. I'm just a dominant
pitching performance, uh, and a lackluster effort at the plate. Uh.
And for the Astros, how how many innings did they
need to get runners on base before they finally broke through?
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Like they're gonna blow this because they're not breaking through,
and then they have one big inning. But it's for
for Baseball to kind of wrap their arms around this.
You tried to sweep it under the rug, and fans
are still mad, you know, for guys like you because
you're a Mets guy. Uh, you can't cheer for anybody
in this and that's not good. Uh. Brights Harper, you
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know a guy that we we've known about since he
was what thirteen, uh, and then all the stuff up
until nineteen and and here he is on the cusp
of perhaps, you know, finally breaking through winning the World Series.
You know, you like when that promise uh, in the
in those guys that were heralded that early break through.
But now you've got this no hit or mixed in it,
(10:12):
and I don't think they're gonna put it happen. It happened,
It's it's gonna stay. It's out. Yeah. I mean you
can put the asterisk next to it because you don't
like that. It wasn't a single performer asterisk. It was
the bleeping Astros. It was the Astros. Double asterisk. It
took a bunch of relievers to come in and finish
(10:33):
it off. Triple asterisk. Frostburg still won't play the final call.
You gotta toss about final call. Gave you permission, I said,
I wasn't gonna listen to all the people that were saying,
don't pay. Yeah, he's gonna take his headphones off series
after all. Yeah, he's gonna go get a smoke break.
Any first responder will tell you never try to beat
the train after breaking and take a mile for a
(10:53):
train to completely stop. So when you come to a
rail crossing, stop because trains can't. Okay, So here's the
final call, World Series, the first no hitter basically set
it up for real, like like you mean it okay, alright,
like I thought I was setting it up like I
meant it all right. Differently, give it deserves hey. For
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the first time ever on Fox Sports Radio, we recently
celebrated our one anniversary. First time you have ever heard
a no hitter from the World Series the call here
on Fox Sports Radio. This has never happened before in
the history of the world Big Bang, all those millions
(11:39):
of years ago, fast forward to two I mean many
years where we didn't keep track of the calendar because
there were no humans and dinosaurs didn't keep calendars. But
the first time final call of a no hitter in
the World Series here on Fox Sports Radio Heater Sets.
Here's the pitch. Sato has got it, swings it across
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the first end time, But Paul game is over, and
a one hundred and one win season for the New
York Mets, which featured such excitement and carried such promise,
ends an extremely disappointing fashion as they are beating in
the wild Card Series two games to one by the
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San Diego Padres. Really, honestly, I really thought I was
getting the Bud Fumble. I didn't know I was getting
at Well or Buckner or Yeah. I wasn't get anything
positive toward me. I was getting something negative. You know what.
You weren't getting the truth final call. I can't believe
Tyshert actually knew who Josh Hayter was. To look up
that highlight A hater? You say, Hayter? Is it h
(12:44):
a Bill Hayter? Is it Bill? I got? I got
Bill Hayter highlights? Is Alan all the impression? Uh? Yeah,
So I guess so, I guess we're not really we're
not getting the we're not getting the final called the
World Series. Well, you know it was it was a
good try to quaking. I mean you tried as a competent, professional,
(13:05):
long standing host here a great repute at Fox Spores Radio.
We'll see, we'll see if anybody texts Frostburg say play
that audio. But sometimes it's good to know. Um, well
you know your place, Jason Don Martin can text me.
I'm not playing it, my man. We are a news
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organization and you are not gonna not play it. Well,
you know what, though we did give the update, we
did give the news. You answer the bat phone, hey
Ki shirt no no no no, no, no, no no
no on a batman. So congratulations, Rob Manfred, you just
wrought this last twelve minutes of radio. This is on you,
(13:49):
all on you Manfred. Wait again, he gets the shame bell.
Way to go, Rob Manfred. This is why had you
just done your job as commissioner, things would be friend
and this wouldn't dog you for your entire professional life.
I just don't like that to me. Folks try to
brush this way. That's so far in the past, Like
(14:12):
is it really you know what I mean, in the past,
like it happens. Perfect game is far in the pot.
But that but that's the point. Right, it is that
this is a very recent piece and as you point
out the infields, they're waving at you, right, and we're
part of this game and are part of this world
series in season. So to say hey, it's it's dead
(14:32):
and gone. No no, no, no, no, that's not gone
until the final year of eligibility and any possible Veterans
Committee voting in of players associated with this has expired.
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mind or any first responder will tell you never try
to beat a train after breaking. It could take a
mile for a train to completely stops. When you come
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to a rail crossing stop because trains can't. Now with
this no hitter, that we saw complete and total baseball history,
sports history for the first time ever. Like I said,
you think about the the no hitter You've been hearing
your whole life. If you've ever heard Don Larson's name once,
you know, perfect game in the World Series, right, that
did perfect game in the World Series. One of the
most famous baseball players ever had one moment in the sun.
(16:05):
My entire life. I've heard about Don Larson, Don like everybody,
Don Larson, Don Larson. But we see it tonight and
we see it came by no hitter from four Astros pictures,
and I'm already uh seeing some of the questions being
asked about why the pitching change for the Astros. Javier
was the first picture since nineteen sixty nine to go
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six innings and no hits in a World Series game. Oh,
by the way, yes, the last guy who did it
was met Jerry Kuzman in Game two a the Couiser.
So Javier goes six innings and he comes out of
the game right there. Yeah, White Sox legend, Yes, Jerry
white Sock, whether they played for the White Sox or not.
(16:48):
White socks legend. He did well, it doesn't matter. Yeah,
but it doesn't matter if you'd say Ted Williams White
Sox legend, white side, why well it socks and great game,
White socks legend, Tom Brady White Sox legend. That's everybody,
White Sox legend. Uh. So, Javier comes out after six
innings and nine seven pitches, nine strike ups. Why didn't
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you let him stay in? Jason, you've talked about Clayton
Kerk show White is in for a perfect game. Hold
on a second, this is something there's no debate on,
all right. Number one, Remember you are trying to win
the World Series. That is the only goal. Number That
is the only goal you have is winning the World Series.
That's it. Everything else is secondary. Oh, we got a
(17:33):
guy who could have all these home runs you get no. No,
You're winning the World Series. That's it. That's the only goal.
Javier was through six innings at nineties seven pitches. All right,
he was gonna have to go another three innings to
win this game. It is November. What's November three? November three? Okay,
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nobody throws a hundred and thirty pitches, a dred and
forty pitches on November three, it doesn't happen. He had
less than zero chance of finishing this no hitter. He
just didn't. He had there was a bigger chance that
the Phillies would rally against him as he got tired
than it was of him finishing this game. And we've
all seen the Phillies. You put a couple of hits together,
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suddenly citizens Bank starts getting crazy, a little raucous. There's
a three run homer. Now it's five three and we're
in the eighth thinning. Remember, you are trying to win
the World Series. There was no chance of Javier completing this,
absolutely none. So yeah, you gotta take him out at
ninety seven pitches. You don't even want to put him
in there and go, hey, a couple of batters get on. No,
(18:37):
you don't want that. No, I think you gotta walk
and a hit. No, no, no, no, no, you gotta
win the World Pitches is a lot, and that's when
you have to make that move because you know what's
going to happen. This is the right move by Dusty Baker,
and it was the right time to do it nine,
especially since again November three is not April or May fourth,
(18:58):
and It's not an average regular season game. This is
November three, World Series. You have pitched an entire season,
all right. Your arm is not gonna give you the
innings you thought. No one pitches big time complete games
in the World Series anymore. It just doesn't happen. You've
already had Javier over the course of this season, uh
in In in his in his time pitching go a
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hundred and forty eight innings, which was a career high
for him. He's never pitched that many in all three
years of Major League baseball. So now you've blown past
a career high for somebody and you're into the World Series. Yeah,
you only get so much six dominant innings from him,
but it was the right call to go to the
bullpen because you had to go to the bullpen. Buddy.
You're bullpen has been brilliant the entire postseason, all the
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way through the year. It's arguably the chief strength of
this squad when you get down to it. So if
Dusty Baker, and again this is Dusty Baker who used
to trust starters way too deep. He learned his lessons
with those Cubs pitchers way back in the day. Too
many innings too many pitches, too many arm injuries not
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gonna happen here. You got a guy that was near
to a hundred pitches, had given you everything he possibly could.
You've established a lead. Now it's time to hand it
over to the guys who've gotten you into the World
Series to finish the job. And what did they do?
They finished the job. You can be mad about it.
(20:27):
And yes, the circumstances between a regular season game or
even the first round of the playoffs is not the same,
particularly when you've got a veteran pitcher as well. Like there,
there's so many different variables to these things. And in Philadelphia,
like you said, you don't want to open the door.
We've watched it. Go a ride, go back to game one,
go back to what Verlander was doing dealing and just
(20:50):
like that, it went to hell very quickly. You're not
opening the door against particularly down two games to one. Twitter,
and how about a fresca Mike gets swollen down there. Really,
there's no debate on this topic, absolutely none. Any first
responder will tell you never try to beat a train
after breaking It could take a mile for a train
to completely stop. So when you come to a rail
crossing stop, because trains can't coming up in ninety seconds.
(21:13):
From the tirerac dot Com studios, we have sound from
Babe Schwarber on the no hitter. You have to hear.
Oh boy, are we gonna have fun with that? But first,
Monster Blanios has what's trending in the wide world of sports,
including including and well, I was gonna say, including an
update on a game I think you had money on earlier.
(21:35):
How stressed you were watching it unfold in front of you.
I'm actually doing the exact same thing right now. I
was standing because the Grizzlies and the Trailblazers were also
going down to the wire. But it looks like the Grizzlies.
I mean, they have about twenty five seconds left. The
Grizzlies are up by four. Trailblazers have the ball. We'll
see how it goes, but I don't think they have
(21:55):
enough time. The Blazers do have the ball three seconds left,
they are down by four. Another exciting game, the Pelicans
and the Lakers one hundred to ninety nine with about
five and a half minutes to tacos. What happens if
you missed two free throws, you get tacos or what
they got to hold them under one ten and get
the dub. Yeah, what's that? Is that? Likeway that may
(22:20):
never happen at all this year to win and hold
them under one to just happened the last game. Last game.
You just saw it. You're not going to see it again.
That's your one for your mouth thing, like like like
a Lakers thing. If you go to the game, you
get free tacos? Or is this like like can I
get it? Even the online of Lakers fan? Can I
go get tacos? Where do I get to a Lakers fan?
You can't get You go to Tie Shirt's house and
(22:41):
you'll make special tacos that have no meat and no flour,
no tortillos. It's crazy. It's just lettuce and tomato. Hey,
okay in cardboard. No, not at all, not at all?
Can I know? But I get like, is this that
dal taco they have beyond meat? I could do it there. No,
it's in the box. Ah, well that's fake meat, guys.
(23:03):
I don't definitely not a sponsor anymore. That's always been
the rumor that there are tacos have like actually very
little meat and that there are more veggies in there.
That's no, no no, no, they're delicious. They'licious. If if I
wanted a salad, I would ordered those toungos are delicious.
I I'm not talking tack on the tacos. Those are
(23:25):
really good. I haven't had them in years, but they
were delicious at two in the morning, that's for sure. Guys,
tie game Pelicans Lakers one o one, five minutes to go.
We're still in a time out the other game, so
I'll let you know if they know. Still time out
one oh seven to one oh four Grizzlies Troubleizers still
twenty three seconds to go. Earlier though, Yes, the game
that I was watching was the Calves and the Celtics
(23:46):
that went into overtime. The Calves they've won six in
a row. They beat the Celtics one feen to one thirteen.
And it wasn't even Donovan Mitchell that had the best
game for the Calves of Mysterious Garland, who was his
first game back since being out with that injured because
he couldn't see anything. He had twenty nine points, five rebounds,
and twelve assists in the Calves win. The Heat and
the Kings were tied at one ten with twelve seconds ago.
(24:08):
But the Heat, I mean they have their own hero
in Tyler Hero, who lived up to his name and
scored the go ahead three pointer to put the Heat
up one thirteen to one ten. He ended with twenty
six points, twelve rebounds, and one steal. We also had
victories from the Hawks, the Clippers, the Mavericks, the Bulls,
the Bucks, the Raptors, they all had victories. And the
Wizards who topped the seventies sixers who were playing without
(24:30):
Joel the night. No, no, no, the Hawks knocked them off. Yeah,
one twelve to ninety nine. Jan Murray let Atlanta with
thirty six points for rebounds, nine a six and six steals.
And then I don't know if you guys heard, but
there was a combined no hitter. Apparently it was like
a big deal. First one since nineteen fifty six in
(24:51):
the World Series game by the Astros, who shut out
the Phillies five zero in Game four. So Game five
is gonna be tomorrow in Philadelphia, same game time, first pitch,
except for eight oh three, eight oh three, that's so
weird eight o three pm Eastern time. The game is
on Fox justin Berland, or will be on the mound
for Houston and Noah's synder Guard gets the start for Phillis. Yeah. Yeah,
(25:13):
get to watch Noah Syndard in the World Series for
another team. Yeah, And we were talking free You guys
were talking about Reese Hoskins wife Jamie Hoskins, who bought
beers for fans yesterday. So apparently she bought fifty beers
for fans yesterday and then tonight she bought a hundred beers.
(25:37):
How about work out? I don't care. That's such a
great gesture. What are you talking about? Good? You go, girl,
buy beers for everybody you lost. At least everybody got
free beer. Tomorrow's got to be two on it, right?
It was fifty right now? She hasked to or go
back down to fifty. Sorry, we won when we had
fifties fifty I'm sorry exactly. Or make it one fifty.
But I mean she's dropping thousands of dollars for these fans.
(25:59):
That's a nice yeah. Yeah yeah, And could he Stan
have yet, who led the no hitter for the Astros,
was asked after the game by Ken Rosenthal of the
MLB Network, like, oh, when when did you know this
is gonna be a big game. Uh, and the guy
he responded in Spanish, and he said, my parents told me,
who are here at the game, told me that I
was going to pitch a no hitter before the game.
(26:20):
Only accounted, Wow, they told me I was gonna pitch
hitter today. He probably his parents probably thought it was
just like, oh, you're gonna whatever you do, you're gonna
you're gonna pitch a no hitter. But he said his
parents said that to him before the game started. They said, Oh,
and also, don't tip your pitches like bleeping the colors
last night. Okay, exactly exactly, but they didn't bleep it
out in Spanish. We just say it, you know that
(26:40):
high like kick. Everybody knew what was coming. Okay, colors,
all right back to you. Thanks show with Mike Carmen.
Any first responder will tell you never try to be
the train after breaking. Could take a mile for a
train to completely stops when you come to a rail
crossing stop, because trains can't. All right, now without further ado,
Now we're gonna actually play it, not this final call
(27:01):
that Frostburg still doesn't want to play because it's the astros. Uh.
This is Kyle Schwarber. Of the Phillies following tonight's game again,
Phillies get no hit by the Astros game for the
World Series? Absolute baseball history. This is Schwarber on the
no hitter to be part of this end of face
plus story. Just how does it feel when writing checking
(27:22):
World Series? No? No, I really don't get no move
on tomorrow. That's cool. We'll be in the history books.
I guess. How do you ask him that question? Dude?
I know you just lost the World Series? But how
cool is it to be part of history? How do
you ask? Of smiles? And he laughs and now that quick,
(27:45):
let's play it again so we can hear his answer again?
What won't it be part of this end of face
plus S three? Just how does it feel when you writing?
Checking World Series? No? No, I really don't get no
move on tomorrow. That's cool. We'll be in the history bucks.
I guess feel be a part of baseball history? What now? What? What? Dude?
(28:09):
What are you gonna do like when you when you retired? Going? Man,
Remember we got no hit in the World Series? That
was so cool. I was oh for three with three strikeouts.
That was such a cool night man. That was They
came into our park and throw a no hit or
our fans were crazy? Oh that was that was something?
I mean, how do you say that? Has it feel
to be go into the Houston locker room and you
asked the the s, the guys on the Astros that
(28:31):
question because they were actually part of history? This is
not this is like, this is like asking Kyle Shanhan
and Matt Ryan boy the biggest comeback in Super Bowl
history by the New England Patriots, has it feel to
be a part of NFL history? What's it? What's be
on the other side is Tom Brady and company and
your offensive plate calling down the stretch. Let's talk about
(28:54):
that a little bit while we're at it. Shall we know?
In this case? I guess you if you're shore, but
you can all have just said can I monetize it? Like?
What does it do for me? Onward to tomorrow? But
the questions that you're gonna get, yeah, they're they're gonna
border un absurd, Right, It's like, all right, is it
it's just just like another loss? I guess I guess
(29:15):
that's the only other way you can frame it. Is
it like another loss? Or is this when he hit harder?
Or whatever? Is what you're trying to get at, but instead, Hey,
you're part of baseball history. Pretty cool, right, isn't that cool? Man?
That's just awesome? Yeah? Hey, Matt Ryan, how did it
feel to blow with three lead in Super Bowl? Part
of history now, Matt? Yeah, I guess we'll be in
(29:36):
history books many we're on to tomorrow. What did you
think of the performance of Sam Ellinger after he was
elevated to the starting role? His performance? But I think
of his performance? How do you say that? Hey, Boston Celtics,
how do you feel about just getting worked after Game
one of the NBA Finals? Right? That? And the Warriors
win another title? In Steph Crad, how do you feel
(29:58):
about being part of history like that? Really? You gotta
I get it that. You know, you get caught up
in the whole history part of it, but not when
you have something historical. The reason you have something historical
is because there is one side where it's historical four
and the other side kind of makes the historical part
happen because they failed. So that's not two people. You
(30:19):
want to ask him about being a part of history?
Ding Ning Ning Ning Ning, you got it? And if
you haven't seen the video, his facial expression is incredible.
I bet it. I can't believe the answer. I mean
that honestly, even though he cursed that. That's I mean
because you would see guys go are you serious with them?
And that's a cloud question? Bro Cad you imagine? Hey, Bryce,
(30:44):
how do you feel about being a part of it?
How do you feel that after a night after you
guys had five home runs because you knew what was coming,
you didn't know what was coming tonight and you guys
didn't score? How did that feel? Normally you get punched
in the face for asking that? How did that feel?
How did that feel? Bryce? How did that feel? Brice?
Bryce can tell right? Bryce? You actually in Alaska, you
actually were walked tonight. How does that feel to walk
(31:05):
in the game where you got no hit? How does
that feel? Price Be sure to catch live editions of
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
You're live from the tiraq dot Com studios. Well, we'll
have more on the no hitter by the Astros in
(31:27):
Game four the World Series coming up in about ten minutes.
But an absolutely huge NFL story today that is Look,
I will say this, Daniel Snyder at this point, to
to quote doctor Strange, is in the end game. All right,
it's it's now just a matter of time until Daniel
Snyder is no longer owner of the Washington Commanders. All Right,
(31:50):
you probably woke up today and saw the big breaking story.
WHOA the Snyders. Daniel Snyder and and his wife have
hired Bank of America to exp floor potential transactions involving
the team. Now this didn't mean they were selling the team.
It could have been we're selling a minority stake in
the team because they want to be able to build
(32:11):
that new stadium. Because if he builds a new stadium,
maybe he gets to stay on his owner that's been
a big thing that's keeping him down. So it could
be both. Like when this story first came out, I said, well,
I think Snyder can see the writing on the wall.
He knows he doesn't have the support of the owners
that he thought he had and they could really vote
him out. So let me explore this now and if
I can get other owners on board, minority owners on board,
(32:35):
then I can build the stadium. Maybe I can get
people to my side. If worse comes to worse and
they want to come in and buy the team, I'll
sell the team. So so this look to me like, Okay,
we have to pursue both of these avenues. We could
sell the team, we could sell a stake in it,
because we still want to try to pull out a
Hail Mary and save this right. So that was I'm like, Okay,
that's that's where it's going. And then this story breaks
(32:58):
that the Snyders are being investigated or the commanders are
being investigated over alleged financial improprieties. The U. S. Attorney's
Office in the Eastern District of Virginia has opened a
criminal investigation into allegations that the commanders engage in financial improprieties.
These were two sources reporting this to ESPN. The prosecutors
(33:22):
are focused on several areas, and inquiry was triggered by
a letter the House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent
to the Federal Trade Commission and several attorneys general in
April that alleged their deceptive business practices. So here's Daniel Snyder.
Now it looks like, hey, I gotta get out there.
We may sell the team because I don't know when
this story is gonna break them being investigated for financial improprieties.
(33:45):
Oh it's an hour later. Oh it's an hour later
that this is coming out. Uh, he's in the endgame,
and now that this is not going to end in
any other way than Daniel Snyder selling the Washington Commanders.
It's gonna happen right now, whether or not it is
something that happens in the next couple of months, whether
it happens in the next year, whether he agrees to
(34:07):
sell the team before or after this investigation ends, that's
where we are right now. We're in the endgame. It's
just going to happen, and Daniel Snyder is gonna eventually
be not the owner of the Commanders. Now does something
else happen to him? Does he get brought up on charges?
There are criminal case? Is there a trial? That's all
to be seen. But the football perspective of it, which was, hey,
how does this guy continue to own the team when
(34:30):
he's had all kinds of controversy that his team has
been riddled with for the past decade, including all the
allegations of of uh sexual improprieties. That have been going
on in in in the team for a long time.
Now we're at that point where it's just going to
end with him selling the team. He's gonna make money, yes,
it's gonna happen, but he's not going to be part
of the National Football League. Yeah, it's the curiosity this story,
(34:53):
or at least part of it with regard to withholding
uh ticket revenue. This was brought up back in April,
so this has been sitting awhile good six months plus
at this point, if we do the base math alongside
you know what other potential financial improprieties there where we
know of all those other allegations, and team executives have
(35:18):
gone out of their way to say, hey, it's a
different world that we're living in here. Ron Rivera stood
up there uncomfortably but put his name behind it of hey,
he and Jason Wright and others saying, hey, it's a
it's a different world and we're operating above board and
all those things that we're part of the organization are
no longer. But yeah, that the of the net home
(35:40):
ticket sales are supposed to be shared with the rest
of the league, and evidently part of this report and
investigation is that they withheld uh and underreported those numbers
along the way. You can go back on the videotape
and just count empty seats as you need to, I guess, uh.
But not to be glib about it. It is serious
(36:01):
because you're you're curious of what else is being alleged here. Right,
you got parts of it, but now it's all right,
let's get through all the books. Let's go comb through
all of it. Meanwhile, they're on their their yacht and
so people were doing the like Norad with Santa Claus.
Here's the tracker of them in the Mediterranean. Uh. And
(36:21):
you're you're looking at at the League of well, what's
their stance because there Roger Goodell has made some big statements,
but there hasn't been a lot of action to this point.
And you're talking about a guy with a lot of
cloud and he's done the because he's in the news.
Matthew Perry Chandler bing thing of if I'm going down,
I'm taking all of you with me kind of thing
(36:43):
to the other owners. So you know, we used the
phrasing in terms of the commanders. Where there's smoke, there's
probably some fire going on there I wonder how much
of that Snyder can can blow over to the other houses,
to the to the other owners as that goes. So
curious to see what the next steps are. But once
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the government gets involved, that's usually not good. Yeah, that's it.
I mean, I don't know how long it's going to
be because if there's an investigation, will they hold the
sale forever long? Because we've seen that you could sell
a team and you can come to terms on it
and relatively short time. But because this is going on,
does this mean it could get delayed? Is this investigation
(37:26):
gonna be six months? Is that eight months? Is the
selling of the team gonna be in limbo while it's happening?
So all of these things are are are going on
right now, So it I don't know when it's going
to end, but you know that how it's eventually going
to end. It's like watching a horror movie that you
know just isn't gonna end well for everybody involved. You
could watch and go, oh man, this is just gonna
(37:46):
end badly. This is gonna end badly, And it's kind
of how I know it's going to end. I know
how it's going to end, but the amount of time
and how it gets there, that's still gonna be up
in the air. And really the legal part of it's
gonna be what holds it up. Because if there was
no egal situation, people wanted to come into buy the team.
This could happen in a month, right, you can get
silent bids or and and however you you they wanted
(38:07):
to go about the business of being able to do it,
they could solicit the bids. Bank of America could take
care of this, and and by the beginning of December
we could know who's gonna own the Washington Commanders. But
it's gonna be a little bit longer than it might
be into the spring, might even be into the summer.
But that's how the story is ending. Yeah, just a
question of you know, does it go to Ersay and
all the other owners to to really force the issue, right,
so they make that declarative statement for once and for all? Uh?
(38:32):
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