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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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(00:52):
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love putting this content out for you every single night. Well,
a big night in Major League Baseball at this point,
you have to think both league championship series can be sweeps.
You got the Mariners up to zip going home the
Dodgers get a huge Game one victory over the Brewers.

(01:14):
It's really all on tomorrow. Look, your best pitcher's going
to Mario Peralta going but wow, right now, all momentum
going into tomorrow. The Dodgers barely had to use any
of their bullpen tonight, so yeah, we could wind up
seeing a couple of sweeps here.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, we got some fireworks in the early game, and
I was getting texts from family friends going, why the
hell is this game on? So we're like double Monday
night football and the Dodgers and the NLCS is the nightcap?
Why not on Tuesday? Like, look, man, we pick up
the torch for you. For a lot of scheduling woes

(01:50):
in all of these sports, I can't explain the silliness.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Of it, but here we are.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
We got the early game in Seattle, right off the jump,
Julio Rodriguez with that three run homer. H the Blue
Jays battled back and we're tied. Great and then h
ten to three finals as they get ready. The team
of the show for a how many years eight nine
times point?

Speaker 1 (02:13):
How many years of John PAULM. Morosi come on this
show and say the Mariners are gonna win the Al West.
They're going. I love the Mariners this year. I love
the marriage, but here they are two wins away from
the from the world too. Well, he's a man, you know,
he sticks to it. His loyalty to this team cannot
be denied.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
And and we've we've drunk the kool aid for many
a year obviously, uh, you know, waiting for the things
that were found out about the Astros to finally fell them.
H and it finally and finally does is even though
Springer is a guy on the on the other side
trying to do some damage for the for the Blue.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Je well, I mean he almost let off on another
home run today, Joe, like I said, he cheeves.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
But when we look at it, you know, for this
Mariners squad, there was a play that really exemplifies it
all right. When we talk about cal Raley and and
the heroics and at the plate undeniable, everybody loves the
big dumper, the guy that was wearing that questionable shirt
behind home plate. Yes, I can't even talk about it
except to go find the picture. It's just weird and

(03:13):
then rolly Homers. But today, you know, talking about what
he does as a catcher and how exemplary he's been
on that side of things and why you could make
the argument, you know, MVP wise he'll lose. But when
we talk about the contribution, he came out of his
crouch on a ball that was hit in front of
the plate, throws a strike to first base and just

(03:34):
collapses right, clearly not feeling right, like catching all these
innings because that's what he's doing, right, He's not been
able to hide a d H every other game or whatever,
like his body has been through the wringer, and like
he threw the ball to first, he gets the out
and just collaps his face first, and then he gets

(03:55):
up and he just looks so uncomfortable getting back in
his croud.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Like that's a guy I could get.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Behind that he is laying it every pitch and battling
through so like he's a guy you could root for,
Like if you didn't know him before this stretch and
the historic home run run that he was on, this
is this is the the extra of all right. I
watched that play, like sign me up for more of him.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
And also I think that the Marriagers saying, okay, so yeah,
we gotta figure he's got to be the DH. Now, okay,
you gotta figure this. Well, I love to catch up,
but okay, we got to he's got to be the DH.
Look before we get to the and the play that
is just absolutely taking over from this game. Look, it's
pretty simple baseball. Derek Jeter always had the best way
to break down the baseball playoffs. Always said it very,

(04:42):
very distinctively. He said, send a gift basket. Well, I
mean that's a good idea, he said. I mean he
should always acknowledge greatness and say thank you. Jeter said,
cover first base and catch fly balls a center field. No,
he said, listen, this is how it goes. The best
teams get in and the hottest team wins it. That's
how it goes. There, he goes in the whole life
of all the years, and luckily we were the hottest team.

(05:05):
Blah blah blah. Now the flip side is true as well,
Like you can look at a lot of things and say, Okay,
here are the Mariners. They're up two games, and then
over the over the blue Jays when they go home.
And the one thing for the Blue Jays you can
say is that, Okay, in no sport does home field
advantage mean less in a Major League baseball because it
really is about your next day starting pitcher and being
able to execute. But overall, what's happened the first two

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games is simply this. Toronto's gotten to bounce from the
last series. Right. They played as well as you could
possibly imagine against the Yankees. Right, they had a great
series against them. The first two games had eight runs
in the first two winnings. Vlad Guerrero Junior was incredible.
They played at an incredibly high level of baseball. Hard
to keep that up, especially when you're not that great

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a team. Over if the Dodgers had done it, I'd say, okay, great,
I get it. Dodgers are that good, Right, they could
play at this level all the way through. But you
want to be able to be able to peak at
the right time. And it's simple. The Blue Jays are
a really good team, but boy, they're gonna get a
little bit of a bounce coming off of that series.
And the Mariners have slowly shown you that we are
on an upward climb. From the players. It's not always

(06:10):
been great for the marin who's been a little rocky
as they started, but being able to win, they have
the big win coming off of Friday's fifteen inning game.
They carry it right over. Hey, there was no Game one.
We're just gonna kind of give away because the champagne
is still in a rise coming off of that fifteen minute,
fifteen inning win. And okay, we'll get back at it
for Game two. No, this was we are hitting our

(06:31):
stride and we are hot at the right time because
to win these first two games. Okay, that gas tank
is still at least three quarters fall right now, there
is no empty We need to recharge. You get back
at it. You see two different teams going in two
different directions. The Blue Jays hit a big peak right away.
With the Yankees, they're getting a bounce. The Mariners are
able to play, to play their way in and now

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now they are playing their best baseball of the season.
And if I could say anything and say, okay, Mariners win,
are they gonna get a bounce World Series? But that's
kind of how it is, you see. I mean, sometimes
it's quite simple. You see the way a team is
playing and you get, Okay, they have this going for them.
This other team has this going for them. But the
Mariagers clearly are are getting a point where they're playing
their best baseball and the Blue Jays played it, and

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now they have to find a way really fast to
get back to it or it's going to be a sweep.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Well, we talked about matchups all the time and the changes.
We'll get to the Dodgers series in a second, but
just in general, you know, they got healthy the second
half of the season. Right we people can bemoan how
much they spend. You know what, get your owner to
spend money, or start the campaign to see if you
can have a coup to have a new owner take
over in your town to spend some money.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Look, I'm all about the uh.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
They need to create a floor to make some of
these teams spend money. But for the for the Dodgers,
a lot of it was about their starting pitching not
being healthy. And look what Blake Snell did in the
regular season. He was only five and four, but he
pitched to a two three five era. Roki Sasaki missed
most of the year and here he was struggled today.
But a big component of what you're doing down the stretch.

(08:01):
Vladimir Garrew to your point last series, he was great,
zero for seven thus far with a walk through two games, right,
and he's not a factor for the Dodgers. We still
waiting for Otani's bat to wake up. But Freddie Freeman
hitting in the fourth spot, Tada, suddenly there he is today, right,
different pitching staff, different matchups, and you roll on through.

(08:26):
All I know is each pitch you're you're living and
dying with d series, right, because you got for Seattle
and Toronto. We're talking about sluggers up and down, and
a mistake is flying. And we saw a lot of
foul balls and on either foul poles, like is it
gonna stay or is it not? I mean we're talking

(08:46):
a game of a foot two feet from Hey, that's
a home run versus a foul ball. Live to see
another pitch, right, So it's it's exciting times and to
have all of this swirling about, and it's the best
in the world for us Man.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Meanwhile, for the Dodgers and the Brewers. Right, the ninth
inning heroics were incredible. We'll get back into them. The
greatness of Blake Trning. Clearly one play is gaining all
sorts of attention. I'll tell you what you think. Major
league players always know everything. No, sometimes you know more
than a major league player does. Dodgers threatening bases, loaded

(09:21):
one out, Max Munsey at the plate. It's a nothing,
nothing game. You're thinking, Okay, Dodgers can break it open
right here, and they nearly do, except chaos absolutely ensued.
Set up for two and Munsey Skies want to centerfield hit, Well,
this one's got a chance. Clip well, back.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
To the wall. He leaves.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
It's in and out and Chaos on the basis might
have a play at the plate. The throw not in time.
Who's out.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
It's a forced play at the plate and he is out.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Uh. And it was that insane. TBS had no idea
what happened, and none of us did. And honestly, it
took me a little bit simply because I had seen
a play just like her. You think about how crazy
this is. A couple of weeks ago, the Mets lost
a game to the Nationals on a Saturday, which is
one of the worst loss of the year, where the

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national center fielder went to get a ball, jumped to
the wall. It hit in his glove, but he couldn't
corral it and it went straight up in the air
and he came landed back down on the ground. Reached
out and caught it right for an out, and it
looked like that's what happened here. Because Freedlick goes up,
the ball hits right in the center of his glove
and it bounces, but it bounces off the wall. Freelick

(10:43):
gets it, throws it in right away, and because Taskar
Hernandez doesn't run from third, they force him out at home.
And because Will Smith, I don't know why, he goes
back to second base, but he was halfway, but then
he saw it hit off the glove, I'm sure he
thought it wasn't out, goes back to second. So as
a result, the throat comes in. Tascar Hernandez is out

(11:04):
at the plate, they throw it, they go down to
third base, and a double play ends the inning. Right.
It's an incredibly crazy play, but it comes down to this, right,
I mean, first time, that's the first double play we've
seen like that in years and years and years. First
time we've ever seen that in Major League baseball playoffs
ever and eight eight six two five double play. But

(11:26):
the thing that struck me on this seeing it. You
and I talked about this is that I guarantee you
Taoscar Hernandez did not know the rule about tagging up,
which is something you're taught when you're a kid. Hey,
as soon as the ball hits somebody's glove, you go.
You don't have to wait for the catch it. When
it hits their glove, you go right because long time ago,

(11:48):
in the beginning of Major League baseball, it used to
be where I'm talking with the early nineteen hundreds, you
would you would the ball would hit outfielder's glove and
they would just juggle it all the way back to
the infield and then finally catch it and then so
you couldn't tag up. Isa bananas do now I think
they do? Remember that's it's a different The Banana's playing
the Mets next week. Yes, if you, but you're rejected automatic.

(12:12):
That's why I like that. That's why I like that.
But get ejected you where they suit like the man
with the yellow hat. But I dare kick people out
from bunty George, But I got George. Do you know
that rule in Major League baseball? Uh so? Jascarrnandez takes
a step off the third, goes back and then goes

(12:32):
back to third when the ball is bouncing around. What
are you doing? As soon as that ball hits the glove,
you take off home. That's your job. Your job is
not to sit fair. As soon as that ball hits
Freelick's glove, you know I'm scoring. You hit the ball
is HiT's the deepest part of center field, but you
gotta make sure you score. I can understand Will Smith

(12:53):
only a tiny bit because maybe he thought the ball
was caught, but obviously he needs to see wall wall
comes back. But Hernandez, I mean, this is a play
you got a score on that man. And I don't
know if we're gonna get from him post game here,
but I guarantee you he didn't know the rule that
he thought it was. Oh, I got the guy's gotta
catch it before he goes home, because that's the only

(13:14):
thing that makes sense on that play, because you know
you're told get on that base. As soon as it's
a glove, you're gone. But yet he's standing around like
I don't know, I don't get it, and he's really
pushing the limits of what people and Dodger fans are
okay with accepting from taoscar Hernandez, Well, he hits home runs,
but he also can't field, and he can't run the bases,

(13:35):
but he hits home runs, Like how far do you
go before it's okay, Toscar Hernandez, we gotta take you
out of the game. He's really stretching that limit my card,
Oh for three with a walk tonight.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
I really thought he was gonna come up and hit
like a nine hundred foot home run, like smashing lights.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
It's a chaos.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
And then he'd run out and he'd go down the
slide like Bernie Brewer, now that I'd like to see.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Or do you think he'd screw up going down the
slide with like fallout halfway down. Ah, a joke, Taoskcar
Hernandez had in mind because he got injured on this
slide a few years ago. Oh did he? Oh well,
I did not know that. Oh okay, there's a.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Lot of questions and whether he was going to go
down the site. Didn't know the stop. I did not
know that happened.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
It was a completely different thing for this stick on
ta Oska Hernandez stick Contananda, But did you run a
risk going down that slide showing the skill and burning quote?
You run a risk playing right field if your task
or running the bases if your task all right clearly quote, yeah,
go ahead, we won shut up? Well that does that?

(14:40):
Does that does sum it up? That does sum it up?
I'll tell you, h but I guarantee you you knew
more about that rule than taoskar Hernandez did. Absolutely, but
you knew run. We have more on this incredible play,
plus an NFL story involving the Kansas City Chiefs that
I'm gonna tell you, and you're gonna say, that's incredible,

(15:02):
but I think I already knew that with John Davidson
no no, no, no no, and fran Tarkison No no, no,
that's and Kathy Lee Crosby. Yeah, yeah, I should love
that show. Yeah, you still obras on like that. You're
gonna say, that's amazing, But I think I already knew
that again. Coming up next right here, Jason and Mike
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Speaker 2 (15:19):
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Speaker 2 (15:57):
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Speaker 1 (16:00):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, a crazy story involving the Chiefs
coming up in a couple of minutes. But the Dodgers
Brewers play that we talked about a few minutes ago,
the double play that could have been a Grand Slam. Uh,
you don't see that that often? Huh Yeah, you don't. Yes,

(16:25):
huge base running mistake by tasker Hernandez. Who I guarantee
you didn't know the rule about tagging up a big
based running mistake by Will Smith. However, I'm about solutions.
I'm about solving problems right and clearly a play like
that is a problem because you want to be able
to have the umpires that can rule stuff right away

(16:46):
that everybody can see, so it doesn't take you out
of the play, doesn't take you away from the play.
And you watch the replay of the ball hit to
the wall that Freelick hits off his glove then off
the wall, and you could see freely saying what the
blank just happened after the play, which is kind of funny.
Threw it back in. It's like, whatever happens happens. Yeah,
the Dodgers clearly didn't know. And in the playoffs, you know,

(17:08):
they have the extra two umpires. You have the left
field umpire and the right field umpire who are there
ostensibly for plays down the line, and it works out.
Now here's the thing. Watch the replay of this from
field level and you see the ball go back and
you see the ball you know it hits out of

(17:28):
Freelick club and he comes and he gets it, and
the umpires are kind of just standing there and none
of them is running to try to to try to
make the play, obviously because they can't because well, if
I run to see what's going on, if there's a
play at my base, I can't see it. If there's
a it's difficult. But The Dodgers clearly didn't know what happened,

(17:50):
and I don't think any of the any of the
Brewers did right. Clearly Freelick didn't because he says, what
the blank was that? But luckily, uh, you saw that, Contreraska,
we're gonna make a throw to the plate because we
know the runners aren't there, and Contreras knows. He's the
one guy that knew. I don't need to make a tag.
I just it's a force play. We were talking about

(18:11):
last week when the Phillies didn't Hey real, Muto set
up like that. Everything is awesome, everything is wonderful. But
he was the only one that knew, right. But he's
also right next to the home plate, umpire, He's got
time to see that he's standing. It's a disadvantage for
the team who is running baits and not know, okay,
what's going on on this right? The Dodgers clearly didn't know,

(18:32):
and there was no way to get it right away
and say okay, oh live ball, I'm gone and I
can run. I can do all this because when things
happen to the Dodgers and the Yankees, we it affects
change the big teams. It always affects change in the NFL.
What happens. Things happened to the Cowboys or Brett Farv
when he was playing. We're gonna change the rules in
overtime because Brett Farv didn't get the football. You're gonna

(18:55):
see in the playoffs a center field umpire. The plays
are too important. A play like that is really important
to get right. And you can add a home a
center field umpire. Yes, it's a little bit weirder because
you're gonna have an umpire in the field, but always
in the well. You know what, we have the second
base umpire. He's in the field to play. Things seem
to work, okay, things seem to work all right when

(19:16):
you have when you have a so I think you
can put a center field umpire in. Who was there
for those kind of plays? Right? Because for plays at
the wall, where is it a catch?

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Is it not?

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Is it something where the ball hits above a line
for a home run? Is it below the line? So
teams aren't rounding the bases going Was it a home run?

Speaker 5 (19:35):
Is it not?

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Do I stop? Do I keep running?

Speaker 4 (19:37):
Like?

Speaker 1 (19:38):
I think it's pretty easy to say, Okay, we can
push through to have a center field umpire, and he
has a little bit of feeling it out. I'm sure
they're gonna have a bit. They'll do it during the
minor leagues in the beginning of the season. Okay, we
have a centerfield umpire out here, just to see where
the best part for the umpire to line up is.
So you're not getting into the playoffs cold. You're not
gonna do it during the regular season because you don't
have that during the regular season, but they'll probably do

(19:59):
I would say little bit of maybe in winter league
or in spring training or minor league spring training. He said, Okay,
we're gonna experiment with this, so when the fall comes,
we know and they'll be they'll be a classing. This
is where the umpires tend to stand. This is where
this is a good spot. This is where you go
so you're not involved in the play. When the ball
is hit, you go this way, you go that, and
you can figure it out, right, It's it's the infielders

(20:20):
can get around the second base umpire, then get around
the first base umpire. When a pop up is it,
when a fly ball is it? So I'm pretty sure
you can figure that out. But that's a big change
and that would certainly solve what happened tonight because if
you have the umpire and center field he is signaling
safe right away, Tiascar Hernandez runs, Will Smith runs, and
the play is as it should be, and the defensive

(20:41):
team doesn't have a defensive advantage on the play just
because nobody knows what's going on. Get the ball all
the way into the plate and you do your job.
It doesn't matter what that gets you in. That's a
big advantage. But just think about if the centerfield umpire
was their sought signaled it's it's you know it's a
home run, or signaled it's free play, or signal a
ball is still out. Everybody knows what to do. Yeah,
I mean to just pull it back.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
I mean the left field umpire got the call right,
But then it's a matter of everybody communicating properly in
a bang bang kind of situation. Now, I like your
short center field guy, he'd be running around like he's
a soccer referee.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
Get that out away, the ball hit the umpire. What
do we do now, I mean, we're.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Gonna have those certain ejects if we got an extra
body on the field.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
So I mean now, now, it's a matter of problem solving.
They'll be very active like that. Umpire is gonna have
to run. He's got it more than any other for
four speed, because it's gotta be okay. If the ball
is hit into the gap. I'm following the play, but
I gotta follow it to the side because the throw
is gonna come in. What if it comes into second base?
What if the throw comes back to first base. I

(21:46):
can't be in the way of that. So that's why
they'll figure it out to get used to another body
out there. They'll do it during the during the exhibition. Oh,
I thought you were in my left field. They're gonna
call me off. Get out of your jerk.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
I got my clutch of for chaos then for sure,
when you add the extra body, especially when there's not
been that. But we're always trying to solve problems, right
you could whether you have the robo judges, you've got
the calls from New York, You've got I mean, there's
a million ways we've changed the game.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
You just the next iteration. You can even have him
if you will. I'd rather have him on the field.
You can even have him off the field, like sitting
in a high perch or something. No, but that's hey, yeah,
I'm out and I can and I can see what's
happening all of a sudden. John mckenroll, Hey that was out,
you jerk.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
You know.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
I think we get him on one.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Of those thetronic rail things like you know, like the
going up and down in Gremlins. You're going up and
down the stairs, or or you're at a library and
you've got one of those motorized things, and that's.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
The trapping of them on from the sopranos going up
and down the stairs, just yelling at Tony the entire time.
They can get any of the Mets. Tom they're not
doing anything. Oh yeah, you know what if that'll get
us some wins next year, I'm okay with that. No,
you no, look at extra winds. Yeah, that's okay, that's it.
That's that's for the Mets. This would have got us
two and a half four wins. Come on, so telling
you centerfield on fire, but write it down off season.

(23:07):
They'll figure it out. Here's your idea and that and
stuff like this doesn't happen again. There you go.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
The half win for is extending it to the next
inning because the call gets adjudicated properly, folks, I understand
you don't get happenings.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
The big NFL story with the Chiefs coming up in
ninety seconds. Actually, we're gonna do this first, and then
we will wind up getting to Steve to say, oh, okay,
I'm gonna say this story and you're gonna say, wow,
that's amazing. But I kind of knew this already. Oh okay, okay.
A University of Texas l Paso study UTEP did a

(23:43):
study that showed NFL officiating favors the Kansas City Chiefs. Now,
when I first saw this, I was like, is this
an onion stories? And it no, but it's it's legit.
A lot of different places have it first. Now here's
the thing. Frostburg had this first. Frostburg had this story
for Again. This is where I'm saying, wow, this is amazing,
but you're gonna say I kind of knew this during

(24:04):
they went back to twenty fifteen. Okay, okay, research done
by a team at UTEP, which you know, okay, so
I want to go to UTEP now you can study
stuff like that. UTEP two step research done by a
team at University of Texas El Paso presents evidence that
the Chiefs have benefited from slanted officiating from twenty fifteen

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through twenty twenty three, a time that coincided with their
rise as one of the big franchise in the NFL.
They also find that during the playoffs playoffs, penalties against
opposing defenses of the Chiefs offense were significantly more likely
to result in first downs, cover more yardage, and fall
into subjective categories such as roughing the passer or pass interference.

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So we gotta go back to my first statement, Wow,
this is amazing. Oh but I kind of already knew
this about the Chiefs, but now there's a study that
shows the Chiefs have gotten preferential official siating for the
better part of a death. My research was good enough.
It was Frostburg. If you had a doctor, and if
you you were just first research, if you were justin Frostburg, PhD.
You could have beat them to this. But this is

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a school that did it.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Like they Yeah, but then that gets a lot of questions.
I mean, for Justin it was on a pain threshold,
right versus quantifying it. That was more just a gut
feel that something was amiss, because certainly last night when
we see zero.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Penalties, Come on, man, yeah, yeah, penalties. Nobody pitches a
perfect game and then in a game they had to
have and again yoh hey, look at the cheese like
all that stuff, like, oh hey, we're gonna call legal
motion on that first touchdown for the for the Lions
funded this like because that's a misappropriation of funds. Hang on,
like wasting time and hang on, it says Mark Davis.

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Is that.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
I mean he's got extra money to spend because I mean,
you saw it happened in Las Vegas with the Aces.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Man it says Sean mcdermotis, but I gotta know, I mean, look,
I go back all of the roughing, the passer penalties
that Mahomes gets, all of this, but I really I
go back to last year and the first down that
Josh Allen didn't get on that fourth down push push play.
The fact that the referee on the Bill's side of

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the field comes in and is marking the ball for
the first down, but the official on the chief side
comes out over rules him and puts it short of
the first down, where they WHOA Really, I mean you
can sit here and say the NFL doesn't do things
the NFL. But I mean, really, I think we've seen
it with the Chiefs enough to know, wow, you got

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and now it's gone from you. Guys really get the benefit.
You get the star calls, right, And there's one thing
about complaining about star calls, because that happens in sports, right,
Jordan will get the star calls as star calls, star calls. Yeah, okay,
that's part of it. But this is just hey man,
we have all kinds of proof that shows you that
the Chiefs have been getting the call for the past decade. Yeah,

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but that's also good.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
There's gonna be an inherent bias in the calculation because
you have to decide was it a questionable roughing the
pastor call versus all right, was it clearly roughing the
passer because we know that there's there's a very gray
area in that. Like that's if there's anything in professional
sports where the quote superstar call comes into play, it's

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that one, right, because I mean, your quarterback don't get it. No,
my quarterback don't get it.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
No.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Saustguard even said a couple of weeks ago, we don't
get the calls because we're a losing team.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
We get called out and you can grab the old
Remember when Bart wanted to test out, he got access
to all of the megaphones and linked them together and
just went testing, and then it broke all sorts of stuff.
I mean, you could grab a bunch of defensive players
and have that same effect. All Right, we're all going
to save this line together and see what kind of

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shakes out in the NFL universe.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Now the one different and I will say so, well,
you think star calls, Yeah, like Brady got him. I'm sure.
According to this study, the effects were absent from the
Tom Brady era Patriots and other recent Super Bowl contenders.
Now that all the stuff was on Tom Brady's cell phone. Yeah,
it was like the Patriots had the play data didn't exist,
is what you're saying. No, the patrist had the plays.
They didn't need this. We have the plays, like they

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called the NFL's listen, we got the plays of the
other team, so we don't need officiating calls. It's fine,
except the Austin Safarian Jenkins completing the catch. Just give
us that, because that's that's gonna kill Carl uh. But
absent from the Patriots era, but here it is for
the Chiefs all the calls again, I can't believe this,
but yeah, I kind of knew this already. That's I
think that everybody's reaction to this is going to be that. Yeah,

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of course kind of knew that already, all right.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
And then he got me thinking about, you know, past
the old l Passo. So I want some salsa.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
The University of Texas El Paso was here to save
us from the Chiefs of Research. It's to save us
from the chick.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
It is the most important thing that we've gotten out
of there since Tim Hardaway's You Have Two Step and
the RuSHA where he said I got skills.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
And Frostburg did this for free. He did it from
the booth. Yeah, ten years, he's got it. It's taking
years off his light to amass the data. I love
this story. I love study. I love this story. It's
time not to find out what's trending you their sports
from Special Delivery Steve to Seger. You've been on the

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other end of Chiefs or you've been at the University
of Texas El Paso.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
I have been to l Paso, okay, and I have
seen the other end of Chiefs case.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
So you've seen them both what we've seen from the
it was are.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
That study wasn't talking about this year, but it was
a real rarity that a team went from what was it,
thirteen penalties the week before to zero penalties.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
They cleaned it up. They cleaned it up. There was
a penalty last night.

Speaker 5 (29:47):
It was just declined.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
That's one hell of a practice week, though, Steve let me.

Speaker 5 (29:52):
Hey, veteran coach, what can you say? We had craziness
in Milwaukee tonight to start the best of seven National
League Championship Series, Dodgers beat the top seeded Brewers two
to one. You mentioned the crazy double play in the
fourth inning. There was a great double play on the
infield the next inning. Those two were turned by goal
glove center fielder Sal Freelik, and then the next inning

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goal glove second baseman Bryce Terrang. However, the Brewers were
down one nothing in the sixth after Freddie Freeman's solo
homer in the top of the ninth, the key insurance
run for La on a basis loaded walk to Mookie Betts.
The Brewers scored one in the bottom of the ninth
off Roki Sasaki. He could not close it out to
save to Blake Trinon, he got a strikeout with bases

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loaded to end the game. Blake Snell was phenomenal in
getting the win. One hit, allowed eight innings, ten strikeouts,
no walks, one hundred and three pitches thrown. In fact,
he's the first pitcher in the history of postseason to
have a game of at least eight innings and ten
strikeouts and one hits, one hitter less and no walks.

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So that means in this postseason so far, twenty one innings,
Blake Snell has allowed six hits, twenty eight strikeouts.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
Something like his last one hundred innings, he's allowed thirteen hits,
something insane like that.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
That is insane, genuinely insane. And he continues to rack
up great postseason starts. He had a couple great at
the end of his Padres career a few years ago.
Game two Tuesday Night in Milwaukee. The Game two starter
for LA will be Yoshinobu Yamamoto against the ace for
the Brewers, Freddie Peralta. LA would be hosting games three, four,

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and five. Milwaukee is the one seed because they won
ninety seven games in the regular season. They also went
six to zero against the Dodgers in July. These Dodgers,
despite all the bullpen difficulty of the last month plus,
they have won twenty one of their last twenty seven games.
Seattle is up two games to none in the ALCS
after winning ten to three at top seeded Toronto. The

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lost to rookie trey Ya Savage. Nathan Lucas three hits
for the Blue Jays. The rest of his team was
three for twenty eight at the plate, and they were
about as bad at the plate in the opener at
home as well. Toronto had been ten and two at
home over the past month until this series. Top of
the first three run homer for Julio Rodriguez two zero

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lead in the series for Seattle, Padres manager Mike Schulter retired,
saying the grind of the season took a toll on him.
In the NFL, the Titans fired coach Brian Callahan. Tennessee
is one to five after last season's three to fourteen record.
Tennessee's only scored about eighty points total so far this season.
The Titans interim coach is Mike McCoy, former San Diego
Chargers head coach. Rams wide receiver Pucin Nakua with a

(32:31):
sprained ankle will likely miss some time. Rams have a
game in London against Jacksonville this coming weekend, and linebacker
Devin Lloyd at the Jaguars will miss that game due
to a calf injury. Lions safety Brian Branch was suspended
one game for his postgame fight last night at Kansas City.
He has appealed. Branch was fined seven different times last season.

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The six game suspension of Chiefs wide receiver Rashid Rice
officially ended today. The Bears won in the rain on
a field goal final play at Washing twenty five twenty four.
Jake Moody four for five on field goals as the
regular Bears kicker Cairo Santos was out with a thigh injury.
Washington Well, they did have Jadon Daniels three touchdown passes,
but two turnovers from him as well, including the fumbled

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handoff with about three minutes left. Atlanta beat Buffalo twenty
four fourteen. Bijon Robinson on nineteen carries, had one hundred
and seventy yards in a score and also six receptions
for sixty eight yards. The Falcons come in with the
number one ranked defense in the league. They face a
Buffalo team that was averaging about thirty points a game

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and they hold him to fourteen. In fact, Buffalo, after
the opening drive touchdown, they only had about two hundred
twenty yards on the next ten drives total tonight. As
for the other NFL news, Garrett Wilson, Jets wide receiver
could miss a couple of weeks with a hyper extended knee.
He'll be officially reevaluated on Wednesday. And forty nine Ers
tight end George Kittle should practice this week after his

(33:56):
hamstring injury on opening Day.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Back to you, Nik, You, Steve O, Jason Smith, Mike
Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. More baseball
on the way, but coming up next, the first head
coach was fired in the NFL season. Today, we'll tell
you about that and who should be the next head
coach fired. Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah,
victory Monday, man Eh, Well, not for Brian Callahan. He
had a good run. The Titans head coach becomes the
first casualty of the twenty twenty five NFL season, the
Titans parting ways with him the year and a third
into his tenure. So now Tommy takes over, right, that's right,

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and the Callahan autoparts is gonna sponsor the patch on
the uniform now with a little coat. They're all going
to be doing the dance to doing maniac with the
at the gas station. So he gets fired and Mike
McCoy charge, your legend takes over. Congratulations Rosbery, But really

(35:10):
this is not like that. It's the Titans that replaced
their coach. This is really about cam Ward, okay, because
you want a hot take. Cam Ward is in a
one and done kind of season with the Titans. The
Titans are insane, right, four new head coaches and general
managers in the last two and a half years. Like
they don't do things that are the way, things that

(35:34):
are logical, that they panic, they're not patient at all
the way the Titan look. We had Jason lockin for
on earlier in the show and he says, listen, this
this is an ownership group that the ownership that doesn't
know that doesn't do things, that does things crazy. And
if you're cam Ward, you get a little bit of
a reprieve right now because, Okay, you've not been good

(35:54):
at all, You've not flashed at all. Cam Ward does
not look like he's any good and usually you get
a little bit a flash by six weeks into the season.
But Callahan gets fired. Okay, but if he doesn't up
it the rest of the way, if he doesn't show
you something, guess what, he's gonna be one and done.
They're gonna pick really high in the draft. Again, there's
gonna be a lot of quarterbacks out there, whether it's

(36:15):
Mendoza or Look, I like Dante, but I think the
Jets are gonna get him, hopefully. I'm not convinced you
got Carson Beck. You have lots of guys are gonna
go like nuss Meyer. You have the rest of the
college football season that's gonna go through. But if you
have a quarterback that you know, hey, he's not been good, man,
guess what. Titans don't do things like everybody else does.

(36:35):
He could absolutely get flipped to another team. They could
take another guy, because look, your new coach wants to
come in. I want my own guy, and I'm saddled
with cam Ward who showed he wasn't really any good.
The Titans do things crazy man, this could be a
one and done year for cam Wood.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Here's the hard part, though, is that you've evaluated talent
terribly reclamation projects, never was late round picks.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
What do you have around him?

Speaker 4 (37:01):
Like?

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Pollard's an okay guy, he's that great offensive lines, no
good your wide receiving corps cast offs. So I don't
know how much I put on Camore. Obviously he's not
been great. No, he'd been efficient when they've actually made
the red zone, so he got a little bit something there.
But they they're among the league leaders in drop passes.

(37:24):
Defense hasn't been as good as we thought it would
be coming into the year. Other than that, I was
to play missus Lincoln. But he's got a flash a
little bit. He's got a flash a little bit. And
I know that Callahan's getting a lot of the blame
because well, he didn't really let him go downfield a lot.
But at some point you got to show a little
bit something and he hasn't. And that's the big thing.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
If he had out a couple of big games and
they've lost, Okay, everything is fine, but he said no
big games. He said no big He's made no place.
He's been the most anonymous number one overall pick unless
you're an offensive lineman. Even guys like Jake Long got
more run in. Like in NFL history, he's the most
anonymous number one overall pick in the draft. That's about
a quarterback. And usually it doesn't matter where you play

(38:06):
all but Tennessee doesn't matter. We'll find you in Green Bay,
We'll find you in Carolina, We'll find you in Tampa Bay,
We'll find you on the beat. To be fair, we
we get buried with a lot of other storylines. But
I mean, yeah, but since there were no expectations on
the team, it kind of got sluffed off. Because even
in division, what do we talk about now? Look and

(38:27):
and the and the Colts have a better season. Everything
just took all the oxygen out of the room. You
go back to Aaron Rodgers, is he gonna play? Is
he not gonna play? Does anybody really care? Like, go
on down the line, And then through six weeks of
the season, we've had so many damn injuries like it's
the end of a cable movie with another one starting

(38:48):
where they take the credits, and they run them really fast.
That's the list of injuries you got right now. We
can't even play them at normal speed because we got
to get to the other movie. So now Callahan goes first,
and again again Campbell dad out the door with him.
So that offensive line is, oh, no, no, we want
to keep your dad. We just want to get Is
that okay? No, you fired my son him out. The

(39:10):
next guy who should go, quite honestly, is Aaron Glenn.
As much as I love the guy, he thought he
was building a culture the the the instead it's a
job as head coach is too much for him. Just
the fact that the most famous play yesterday was they
don't run a play at the on the last play
of the second quarter, don't throw a hail Mary Garrett

(39:31):
Wilson screaming at Aaron Glenn as they leave the field.
They go on and blow a game in which Justin
Fields is terrible. He gets Garrett Wilson hurt, like it's
not working. Yeah, Wilson did the math on it, like
he knew what the math was on a field goal.
It's it's not it's not working. And not only is
he not instilling a culture, he's showing that it's too
much for me. Being a head coach in the NFL

(39:53):
is from dancing on the sideline with two minutes left
in the game against Tampa Bay to not calling that
yet and then being defiant about it after the game, saying,
what are you talking about? I just don't want to run.
That's not an issue. Justin feels is terrible, not an issue.
Asked me better questions than today. It's oh, hey, yeah, no,
I agree, Justin wasn't good. He needs to be better,
and yeah, I should have thrown a Hail Mary at
the end of the first half. Being a head coach

(40:14):
is too much for him. I can see it right away.
With guys. It's not about losing is one thing, but
showing me that, wow, six games in, you are clearly lost. Like,
I can't see Aaron Glenn making it to the end
of the season. You're Frostburg, You're right, You're absolutely right.
He might.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
I mean, I really I can't see him making it
to the end of the season. Yeah, they don't pull
the trigger at some point. Yeah, it's a terrible, terrible loss.
Thirteen to eleven. That's two seventy two right there.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
Jerry Newheisel Jerry Jerry Jerry Scarry is uh the coach?
How's he?

Speaker 3 (40:51):
He's not gonna be able to inject anything in the
AD offense. Coming up next big