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Speaker 2 (01:06):
You know, the oddest thing I've seen in UH sports
today is on television in front of me.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
DeAndre just doesn't.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Look right and it Lakers, you're just keeps perplexing me
every time I see him, Like, yeah, okay, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
They're gonna let him wear a Sun's uniform in the
games count, so you understand he's playing bizarro world. It
was weird for me when jose Canseco got traded to
the Rangers, and I'm like, is it Ranger? They gonna
let him wear his A's jersey, because like, come on, man,
I can identify come that's who he is. That's right,
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that's White Sox, a legend, jose Can jersey. Whatever tav
he goes to, he wears his as jersey. So Game
two of the NLCS an absolute dominant pitching performance by
Yoshinoba Yamamoto on the heels of Blake Snell's eight innings,
one hit effort the night before, Dodgers winned five to one.
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The only blemish for Yamamoto a leadoff home run in
the first pitch, and that was it. The Dodgers go
back to LA up two games to none, and the
final out of Yamamoto's gem sounded like this, He's the
O two, had a swing at a mess and Yoshi
Yamamoto with his crown jewel as a Dodger. It is
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a complete game.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
He goes the distance, and the Dodgers win Game two
by a score of five to one.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
TBS on the call, and look, we've talked about this
the last hour, right to pay this off. This is
going to be terrific. So we said, okay, when's the
last time in baseball history we've seen back to back
games like this from a team in a series?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Blake Snell eight innings facing the minimum, because remember the
hit he gave up, he picked the guy off, So okay.
And then Yamamoto complete game tonight, first complete game for
the Dodgers in the playoffs since ho'se A Lima in
two thousand and four. This is absolute dominance, right for
both them. Seventeen innings pitched right, four hits, seventeen strikeouts,
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absolutely dominant insanity. We threw this out there, when's the
last time? And I have some candidates, and then I
have one that makes you go, oh, that's the best. Okay,
here we go. So twenty ten World Series Game four,
Game five, Madison Bumgarner, Tim lincicm okay, okay. Game four,
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Bumgarner eight innings, three hits, no run, six strikeouts. Game five,
Tim Lincicam eight innings, three hits, one run, ten strikeouts.
Very very similar, right, very very similar to say, what
an arm that I had two thousand and one World
Series Game one in game two, right, because we talked
about maybe Shilling and Johnson Shilling Game one seven, three hits,
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one run, eight strikeouts, Randy Johnson Game two complete game
eleven strikeouts, shut out. Okay, so again very similar, right,
very similar. Now you had two from your two thousand
and five.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Years Susy dominated as a whole.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Take the Yeah, so those are all good. So those
are all good, right, those are all competitive with with
this has shows you how good Snell and Yamamoto were.
We're talking about the twenty ten World Series, the two
thousand and one World Series. But now I'm going to
go back to the one where you go, oh, yeah, no,
this was better. This was better, and I got this,
(04:38):
and I gotta find that who was on Twitter and
give him credit for it. The nineteen sixty six World
Series And when he said sixty six, I'm like, oh,
that was the Orioles sweeping the Dodgers. Here's how dominant
the Orioles were. Game two, Game three, Game four, Jim
Palmer complete game, six strikeouts, Orioles beat the Dodgers six nothing.
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Game three, guy named Wally Bunker. I mean, come on, man,
that dods a good game, met Orioles pitching staff. But
I meant Wally Bunker complete game, six strikeouts, no runs.
They won one nothing. Okay. So that's back to back
complete game shutouts by Jim Palmer and Wally Bunker. Game
four Dave McNally complete game, four hits, shutout, win, one nothing,
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they win the World Series. That's three complete game shutouts
in a row in the World Series where the Dodgers
in twenty seven innings got fourteen hits, six hitter in
the first game. For it's in the second game, for
it's in the third game. Uh yeah, okay, there's your
one right there. Clearly. All the other ones you can argue, Hey,
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maybe Bumgard, Linscam sure, maybe Shilling Johnson, sure, but three
complete game shutouts in a row, four fourteen total hits.
The only thing the strikeout totals aren't great, but it
doesn't matter. You're talking about complete game shutouts in fourteen
it's in three games. Uh Palmer Bunker McNally, nineteen sixty six.
That's the last time, Yo, dummy up? Will you thinking?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
That was his post game after night they called him
Archie after Archie, how was your the inspiration for Archie Bunker?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Eight seven seven? How is your game? Get await me,
Get await me, get await me. Not liking the media already.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Now I want to go back and look at the
life and times of Wally Bunker. I mean, because I
know everybody else, all their names, you know, from that,
from that Orle's pitching staff. Right, Mike Quaar was there too, right,
one of the greatest pitching staffs is all. Here's Wally
Bunker had nine years in the Major leagues, sixty and
fifty two career record, nineteen wins in nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
He played for the Orioles from.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Sixty three to sixty eight, and then three years with
Kansas City, but sixty and fifty two. For the career,
he had thirty four complete games. Yeah, thirty four complete
games in two hundred and six appearances, one hundred and
fifty two starts.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Now, the one thing that's pretty good, you won every five.
Just keep going. But now, but now, the one thing
I'm gonna say is that, now, okay, here's three games
in a row with this kind of dominance, which is
why it gives it the advantage. But understand that complete games, yes,
they happened a lot more often back in the sixties, right,
you had got you had guys that would have fifteen
or seventeen complete games. That's just that we don't get
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much fear anymore. It's still this pitch. It's still the
pitching look. And the sixties was the era of the pitcher, right,
and then they had to change them and then to
change them out because of Bob Gibson in nineteen sixty
eight with his one point one seventy era. So, yes,
the sixties was the era of the pitcher. But this
is still some kind of dominance where you're talking in
the World Series three straight shutouts. How many complete games
in the regular season do you think there were?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
The sure in the overall overall Okay, hang on, so
third overall Major, I'm gonna say thirty teams.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Maybe each team averaged between one and two. I'm gonna
say I'll go into it. I'll say forty five, twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Wow, you were twenty twenty four now twenty nine, twenty eight, Hey,
twenty twenty three with they're twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, I don't have that data. How do you not
have that?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
How do you have twenty nine and twenty four? We're done,
twenty nine and twenty five, twenty eight and twenty four.
How do you look at twenty twenty three?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Because the Google machine only gave me those last two.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
How about you getting there? No, I don't have that
because it did the comparison those two years. There were
thirty seven in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Thirty seven. I mean you're thirty seven. You're averaging thirty
seven to in a row. You're averaging one. Each team
is averaging one complete game of season. Look, now, it's
a big deal when a guy pitches through seven innings
in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
When it started, goes seven innings, right that that's now
the big deal. Twenty eight and twenty twenty two, it's
like one complete game of year by a team. You
saved the bullpen. Okay, yeah, just ridiculous. But it's different
because most teams it's saving the bullpen. For the Dodgers,
it's just we don't want them in the game because
the bullpen is gonna kill us. That's the only thing
that's gonna kill us in this postseason, So we gotta
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make sure they don't get in the game the least
amount of guys we can get in the game. Okay, great,
but think about that, right, I mean, we watched it
with Dave Roberts yesterday with Blake Snell, and we questioned
he was over one hundred pitches, right, the imaginary, mythical,
imaginary line, right, don't cross that line?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah? What happens if I do? And your arm's gonna
fall off and go into the third deck? I don't know.
But he didn't. He didn't go out.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
He brought Sasaki in and Sasaki's control was terrible. Twenty
two pitches, ten, ten strikes, and before you know it,
it's on to Blake Trinon, who was an adventure and
they get out of it, succeed and proceed. But a
lot of time to then think about if I got
a gain.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
It's really dealing. Do I really want to open that door? Yeah?
Do I really want to see what's behind door?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Number?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
To think about that from the Dodger's perspective, right, just
think about this for a second. Dave Roberts itches to
go to the bullpench whether it's you know, from high
up to day.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
He doesn't. He doesn't feel like he's doing anything unless
I go to the bullpen, right like Dave Roberts probably
feels like, dude, I don't even need a postgame shower.
Didn't even manage to it. What did I do? I
sat there and watch Yamamoto just absolutely deal for nine innings.
But just think about this. Yamamoto's up at one hundred pitches, right,
He's up at one hundred pitches. It's a four run lead,
and you know, I always go back to John Paul Morose,
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who's gonna join us in a few minutes, where he says,
if you don't have a pitcher in the ninth you
can bring in the ninth inning that can protect a
three run lead, then quite honestly, they shouldn't be in
Major League baseball. Okay, shouldn't be in Major League baseball. Oh,
very right.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Now, you have a day off tomorrow before you go.
Now it's a day game in on Thursday, so yeah,
right eight yeah, so six oh eight eastern.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, but but still you have it.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
You have a day off now six oh eight three
h eight six seven six seven six seven.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Uh so you have a day off. So it doesn't matter.
And still with Yamamoto at one hundred pitches, he didn't
go to the bullpen for someone for three outs with
a four run lead. Just think about that. Yes, it's
growth from Dave Roberts. Hey, look he's learning, but it's
also knowing. Okay, as much as I like these guys
and want to say they're my guys, I can't go
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to them unless I have to. I can't go there.
This is that Dave Roberts should say. Every should have
something written on each of his hand saying that says
do I have to do? I not have to write
when you have to go. This is the Dodgers. When
you have to go to the bullpen, you go to
the bullpen. If you don't have to go, don't go
because your bullpen is terrible.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
It's Kronk and the Emperor's new Groove with the angel
on one shoulder on the other.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Okay, what do I do?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
But a lot of it goes to why why open
the door? Like it's the we ask all the all
the time? Why add variables to things that you don't
need to Right? If the equation is simple, this guy's dealing.
They're not getting a good at bat right, you didn't
see a lot of hard hit balls. It's not like Yamamoto.
Outside of that ball from Cheerio, that was it. Like
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after that pitch, he locked in and that was the
end of it. And so why open the door to
what has been chaotic, especially with a team that all
season long their hallmark was being scrappy, aggressive on the
base pats, working at bats, and they didn't do any
of that. Right, So right now you've got them the
(12:30):
proverbial where you want them, not just because you're up
to nothing, but even within those games, they didn't stretch
at bats. They didn't you know, go up there and
just say, all right, I may not get a hit,
but I'm gonna have an eight pitch at bat.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
It was none of that.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
It was they were still going up, you know, get
them on, get them over, get them in. As their
mo all year talked about one hundred plus one seventy
four in terms of run differential and the most wins
in Major League Baseball, and a lot of that was
stationed to station and being aggressive on the bass pass.
Guess what didn't find the base pass control was good?
What was in eighty eighty one strikes to thirty balls
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or whatever for the night.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I again, what are you gonna do? So for Dave Roberts,
he didn't go to that temptation.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
He left it behind. Exit out, out of Fresco, Exit
swollen dom. I'm proud of Dave Roberts for not managing
Big Day. I'm proud of him for not managing He
sat there.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Now he looked a lot happier than Murphy did, because
every shot of him, it looked like.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Do you think we'll forgeta seeing. There's gonna be video
we find later where Roberts is just tied to the
dugout steps and like they won't let him move. No, no, no,
we're sticking with you. There will be no call to
the play. Snell is just taping him to the to
the dugout. Yeah, he's like on a pole trying to
get on it. He'll let me go back out there yesterday,
Dave coming up next, We got John Boma, Rosie stopped
(13:49):
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You can follow him on Twitter at John Morosi. It
is the Pope, John Paul Morosi, John Paul Happy tidings.
Welcome to Seattle. Did you get a coffee yet?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
No coffee is yet, my friends, because as you well know,
it is nine to twenty two Pacific time. So I'm
going to just I'm hoping that at some point I'm
able to reacclimate my circadian rhythms to this beautiful coast
that is your home. And I did though. In the
journey that I had Wes, I learned a bit of
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the tales of the legend of Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and so
I am well acquainted with what has transpired in Milwaukee
this evening. And I think a night like this, my friends,
require some historical context, because what a performance by Yoshi.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, we went back, John Paul. We've done this over
the course of the past hour and a half, and
the show's been a really fun thing. The last time
you've seen back to back starts like this in playoff
history with Snell and Yamamoto. And the only thing that
beats it is you got to go back to the
nineteen sixty six World Series when the Orioles shut out
the Dodgers the last three games. Palmer and somebody named
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Wally Bunker and Dave McNally six, nothing won, nothing won,
nothing like that's the last time we've seen something more
than this dominant in the play. There's other closer ones.
You know, we got the Diamondbacks in two thousand and one,
the Giants in twenty ten. That is, that is, you know,
neck and neck with this. But the last time something
like this you got to go back to nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Right, Well, I'm I'm intrigued. And the one the one
that I would ask and maybe Mike can have a
thought on this. The White Sox rotation in the ALCS
five was quite was quite good. Maybe not quite on
this level, but that was the backbone of how they
were able to beat the Angels there in those five games.
But let's be clear, I mean this is this is
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now a generational and a rotation.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
This is a generation Wait wait, wait where are you?
John Paula? You and Seattle? Are you in Italy? Where
are you?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
No, I'm I'm in Seattle. I was just I was
just getting getting out of the cab.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
You think the cabby and Italian? I don't know. That
was Spanish, Spanish, Spanish. It was very fast, very fast.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Okay, wow, Yeah, that's that's you know, I mean, uh,
that's that is that I have found, as a traveler
and lover of languages, that that cab rides are are
a wonderful time to practice like.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
So hence that was that was me contemplating, uh, whether
I will place Yamamoto and Snell in the state conversations
John Parland and Jose Contreras while I was getting out
of the cap.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
No, I'm impressed. I can't believe I didn't know you
were fluent in Spanish as well, So Spanish and Italian.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I'm I'm probably better in Spanish lanm in Italian. My
Italian is is passable. I mean, I would describe myself
as as not as not fully fluent in either. But
I have considerably more practice speaking Spanish in my day
to day job than I do speaking Italian. Now, is
(19:13):
there a dream of mine that at some point in
time that Major League Baseball will will have this influx
of amazing Italian talent and I'll be able to do
Italian interviews every day. That may be somewhere in the
recesses of my mind, but I'll tell you what, I'm
not to cover ball for a long time before that happens.
I think that's that's what I'm to do. But but no,
I'm grateful to speak both. We try at our house
(19:35):
to have both both four languages going as well, and so, yeah,
it's part of a part of the journeys. I appreciate
your interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, I figured you were going to go straight into
Oceans eleven too. He's working on his Japanese. I hear
he's getting pretty good at it too.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
I'll tell you this, I had, through through covering baseball
around the world, having been in Japan twice, I have
I have learned how to how to congratulate uh tokuz Imasu.
I learned to say a couple of different times beating
great performance. And I think that that the greeting is
certainly in order based on the way the Alma motive
is share today.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, I do appreciate you bringing up the the two
thousand and five white Socks, Burley and Garland and Andrera's.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And Pardi Garcia. I mean, I mean that was check
go back and just check what that rotation did in
the five alcs. I'm not gonna probably now where any
of those guys throwing ninety two mile an hour splitters
that moved like three feet like the last pitch Dandard
Vaughan probably not. And Sell was unbelievable yesterday. Sell stuff again,
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probably a little more overwhelming than Burley stuff, if we're
being accurate. But but this just shows you when when
elite talents like the Dodgers have many have have time
to really hone in and prepare for these very very
big starts. It's just the results are are and credit
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Dave Roberts. I mean, there's there's a lot of managers
now that would that that would maybe have pulled him
at one hundred pitches or had some kind of a
formula to get him out of the game. I think
that Dave and Mark Bryer had the had the presence
of mind to say, you know what, look at what
our guys doing. Look how dominant he is. I am
in no rush to get this guy out of the
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ball game. I mean, that's to me, that combination of stuff.
When you're when you're quote unquote breaking pitch is a
ninety two mile hour splitter that moves like three feet,
it seems like it's just it's not fair. That's that's
what I was saying. I mean, he's allowed the grace
of one mistake to Suio to begin the game, and
then it's just sheer dominance after that. And you know,
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maybe the Brewers big chance would have been last night
when Sasaki wobbled a little bit in the ninth inning
and Trina was able to somehow get the last out.
It's but this Dodger team looks awfully dominant and and
today I think was a of how you win at
postseason games. Some early power pies as an RBI single
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Otani does too. You get the big homer from Taskar,
and then Monthy he gets on the board too. It's
just that was a clinic of some small ball and
some big ball there for the Los Angeles Dodge.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Just amazing, though, JP, with all the pitching dominance, how
much we might be talking about a much different world
if Duranon just takes one for the team.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Well, and that's a great point, and I appreciate bringing
it up, but I think it's certainly something that people
have have debated a little bit in the last twenty
four hours. Here's where I'm out on that. That is,
that is a case of human instinct. That is, you know,
if you're Bryce Terrangue in that situation. I don't think
in any way, shape or form, you have it on
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your bingo car that hey, I want to in this
moment give myself up and get kit. I think the
idea is I'm going to come through my team. Uh,
this is my plan of attack to hit the ball.
And again, I just I think that is a momentary reaction.
That that that's almost like blaming, blaming me if my
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eyes are half closed in a picture, which happens half
the time, so so like it's just like that's like
a natural It's like a blink of a human reaction.
Same thing for Terang. I will never criticize them for it,
even though is it is it the reality that if
you've been hit at the different story, Yeah, it probably is.
But that's just kind of like a momentary flinch for
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which I don't think any human could be expected to,
uh to execute in the moment.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Well, here's a disagree with you, John paul Is. I've
taken a lot of pictures and I see the blame
that happens when someone doesn't have their eyes open. Come on,
keep your eyes open. Not you have seen that many times.
I've seen that a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Here here's my thought along those lines. This is just
a thought that I have that these are the things
I think about on these long flights across our contests,
like how much how much bandwidth? How how many? How many?
Does does this even matter? By the way, how many
pieces of the cloud are currently occupied by like eight
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duplicates of the same photo that we're all taken by
somebody saying Okay, is this good? This good? We get it,
we get it, we get it's like eight, Like is
there not enough AI in the world that would just
like shrink all of that? And then what everybody's what
everybody's wireless network? Like function a couple and bps is better?
That's that's an abbreviation. That's the things I think about
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is that that may or may not be the actual
technical abbreviation. But I just wonder how many how many
little bits of of of memory are being saved by
like the eight ex duplicates of the same picture that
you never are actually going to turn out anyway, So
why do we even take them? That's what I'm gonna ask.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Wow, you should do a TED talk on that. You're
in Seattle. You can talk to guys like Bill Gates
and everybody and say listen. I got an idea.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I've heard, I've heard there there have been a couple
of companies that have been founded here that are dedicated
to this.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Now you said bp to not BTS not going into
your music list, right, No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
That's no, that's like is that like? Now that's NAPSU Right,
naps You're.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Still thing is yeah, nas ripping songs and put you
Absolutely Napster's the thing. John Paul Network inside of John
Paul Morosi. Our guest here, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, live
from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right, you're there
for the Alcs. Look, this is the biggest question. You
now have two teams going home up to ZIP. Is
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there anything that's stopping us from a Dodgers Mariners World Series?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Sure? I still think that, First of all, we have
not seen the best of the Blue Jays yet. I
think on the National League side, the Brewers, I mean
it's gonna be a challenge. I mean they've got to
go win the series in LA, and the Dodgers are
looking as as overpowering as can be. I think there's
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probably a better chance of a comeback on the American
League side than there is on the on the National
League side, the Jays, they're just they're a better team
than they've showed the last couple of days. They're just
they're just better. Uh. Now the Adle's playing phenomenally well,
and actually now the pitching matchup probably in some ways
favor the Addle in the next couple of games too.
(26:15):
You're you're hoping that Shane Bieber can wind it back,
and you're opening that Max Suers that can wind it back.
Maybe that's asking a bit too much, uh, but you're
asking Vladimir Guerrero Junior to just be himself. The one
thing I will say though, is that the bill might
finally be coming due for the Jays in the sense
that they they are now feeling the absence of Bob
(26:39):
Bachet in a way they weren't before. H when when
the rest of lineup was was producing, you could maybe
get by without Bow. But now there's no bow. And
then Anthony Santan there in the last game was not
able to play because of the back issue. So there's
the injuries are and the concerns are compounding on the
on the Toronto side, But I still see more offensive
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upside in the Blue Jays than I do with the Brewers,
so I think probably the Dodgers will be the nationalau
champions again. But I'm looking at the series I'm covering
here and saying there's a path for the Jays to
at least get this series back to Tronal for a
game six, and at that point in time anything can happen.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Oddsmakers giving the Blue Jays a fifteen percent implied odds
right now to come back and win it, whereas the
Dodgers sitting at ninety four percent probability based on the
odds as they sit right now.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
JP.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Let me go back to the Dave Roberts side of
things for a moment in the NLCS. Do you think
last night may may have spooked him a bit to
where he didn't want to go to the pen with
Yamamodo going free and easy.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, I think that's possible. I think it was probably both.
To be honest with you, the Dodgers are very savvy
in terms of how they manage the workloads of their pictures,
and Rokie, after struggling with his command and throwing as
many pitches as he did last night, I don't think
Dave Roberts was in any rush to get him into
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the game. Let's put it that way. And and the
Dodger bullpen has been a bit of a riddle for
them for a long time. And so I think now
it's amazing. And how about this for a script that
has flipped. The Dodgers used to be this team that
almost never let their starters go deep, and now they've
(28:27):
done it. And back to that game, I think that
that is maybe the personnel changing. That might also be
Dave Roberts evolving a little bit. But I think that's
that's a great observation by you, Mike, that that there's
that maybe some of the bullpen worries were weighing into it.
But I also think that maybe the calculus has changed
a little and how and how they look at the
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disparity between the quality of their starters and the quality
of their options in the pen. After dealing with injuries
and times where whether it was Clayton or others, that
maybe they were trying to not take deep as deep
in the games, And thinking about all those times by
the way that rich Hill was pulled before he thought
he should have been pulled, I mean, that was that
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was a story in October, year after year after year.
I think the philosophy is different, but also, let's be honest,
the personnel is different. Rich Hill.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I love Rich Hill.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Rich Hill was not throwing like Blake Snell's pitching last night.
It's different, a different kind of the pitcher. And they
have right now two cy young types in Snell and
Yamamono that are really at the peak of their powers.
And and by the way, we haven't even you know,
Tony pitch yet, but this is in this series, so
there's just there's a lot. There's just a lot of firepower.
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Now for the Dodgers, it's going to be hard to be.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
You can fall him on Twitter at John Morosi, That
is at John Morossi, MLB Network Insider in Seattle for
the Alcs. John Paul will talk to you later on
this week. We'll get your lines picked this week. Again,
you were right on with the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I know it's hard to go back to Michigan after
making that pick, but uh, do you think he went
straight to Seattle. The NFL pundit that you are is
really I mean it as well. I gotta admit Italy,
NFL you can do.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
It all, man.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
If I'm not mistaken, I think I am actually so
the Lions might be foreign to this year, but I'm six,
and oh yeah, I think you are about I mean,
there you go. That's not bad. I mean again, it's
not exactly a leap of faith and say, hey, I've
heard the Keansby Keeps are a pretty good football team, like.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
We know that.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
But but I'm I'm actually pretty proud of myself. Next
with picks. I mean, I probably should have a different
vocation at this point.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
The only thing you can't do is have a cup
of coffee at nine o'clock at night. It is John Paul,
and I cannot do that.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Will got to make sure that.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
John Paul just wait ten years till you're my age.
Then all of a sudden I can have a cup
of coffee at nine o'clock. Just wait, just wait a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
My dad, My dad is in his seventies and he
will have an espresso after a meal. I was a dad.
Why man, why they just hard on yourself that you
won't listen to me, because you know what, when when
Dad's hit seventies, they officially just they just stopped listening
to everybody.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
It's great call. We'll talk to you later on this week,
there goes John Paul Larrose. Best just wait, you can
be able to You'll be have coffee at nine o'clock
at night and have been happen for you time out
to find out what's trending in the wide world. Sportsman,
guy who I see pour a double espresso at eleven
o'clock every night.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
After it's Steve to say, yeah, guys. For the Dodgers,
this was ball game number one seventy tonight. This was
their first complete game of the year. ELA is up
two games to none in the NLCS after winning five
to one at top seeded Milwaukee. So the Dodgers are
the first team ever to not throw a complete game
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regular season and then throw one in a victory that postseason.
And you referenced the White Sox starting staff in that
ALCS against the Angels twenty years ago. What we've gotten
from the Dodger starters these first two nights of the
series seventeen total innings. The White Sox got seventeen and
a third that year to start the series against the
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Halos from Jose Contreras and Mark Burley. But if you
go back the last three LA starts, the clincher against
Philadelphia last week with Tyler Glasnow. These last three LA starts,
the starting pitchers have allowed six hits total six for
seventy five at the plate against them, an eighty batting average,
and Glass Now will be back on the hill Thursday
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afternoon for Game three hosting Milwaukee. The Dodgers did, by
the way, go not only seventeen innings from starters the
first two games, but back in nineteen eighty one they
had that and only one run aloud total. There was
a first round series nineteen eighty one Dodgers Houston. Each
team did that against the other. Dodgers had Fernando Venezuela,
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Jerry Royce going up against Nolan Ryan of Houston, and
Joe Nicro. So it's been a while since we've seen
this kind of pitching back to back in the postseason,
and now it's an O two hole for the top
seeded team in the National League. And history is not
on their side because in the last forty years since
nineteen eighty five, only three teams have been down two
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in a best of seven in the LCS and come
back to win it. The Dodgers were one of those
teams in twenty twenty, but to take a two to
zero lead on the road. That's an especial strangled hold historically.
In fact, I saw this stat today with the nineteen
eighty six Mets. Remember they lost the first two at
home and they came back to win the World Series
in seven. Since nineteen eighty six, it's only happened once
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where a team lost the first two at home and
a best of seven came back. That was the Yankees
nineteen ninety six. Remember they were almost down three games
to note against the Braves and still came back late.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Hit that big home Jim Lairetz.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Yeah, I hit that big home run absolutely, so you
know there are still games to play. But wow, what
have we seen from the Dodgers starting pitching these first
two nights. It was a complete Game three hit from
tonight's winner Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The alcs is off Mariners won
the first two on the road. They lead to ozer
in the series against Toronto. Game three on FS one
(34:09):
in Seattle on Wednesday night in the NHL eight games total,
including an overtime win for Montreal against Seattle, an overtime
win for Washington against Tampa Bay, Edmonton a two nothing
winner at the Rangers. The New York Rangers have been
shut out in their first three home games of the season.
That has not happened before.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
They're the Jets of hockey Steve stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
They're getting influenced. The Ducks at Homer tied with Pittsburgh
three to three early third period. The Dallas Mavericks gave
coach Jason Kidd a multi year extension. There were NBA
exhibitions tonight. Luka Doncic with his preseason debut for the
Lakers this year twenty five points. For what it's worth,
the Sun sitting starters did wind up winning the game.
The NBA exhibition schedule ends this Friday night. The regular
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season opens Tuesday, the twenty first. Yukon is number one
in the women's basketball preseason POL ahead of number two
South Carolina UCLA number three in AP And It's been
quite a week for Japan, not just with Yamamoto and
company over here. Japan's soccer team beat rival South Korea
five nothing in an exhibition on Friday, and then Japan
(35:17):
hosted Brazil in an exhibition tonight and scored two goals
in the second half. Japan beat Brazil three to two.
This evening, Wow us Men Socker was in Colorado with
an exhibition, beating Australia two to one. Hodji Wright with
both goals. Mexico tied Ecuador one to one.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve Oh, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon,
lot from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next
a superstar debut tonight that I don't think people are
really gonna understand what kind of season this guy's gonna have.
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports rad
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Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. We got more
football coming up at about ten minutes, a double shot
of stories, double up. But tonight we had the preseason
debut of Skinny Luca. Oh, I thought you were the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I thought it was all about DeAndre Ayton, Skinny Luca
or lay up missing Bronni James.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Well, that's gonna happen. But you saw the pictures all
off season. Is he really this skinny?
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Is he not?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Luka donci is clearly showing that he has taken care
of his body in the off season again. And we
and we we got into this during the trade, which
is you know, this is one of those things where
it's gonna wind up looking bad for the Mavericks because
with the Mavericks, Luca had been calling the shots. He
doesn't have to get into shape, right, I'm the franchise here.
(36:53):
I don't need to get into shape. He was never
gonna do that, which is part of why the Mavericks
soured on him, got rid of him a year early
before they weren't gonna sign him. They make the trade
for Anthony Davis. And when that happened, I said, boy,
this is gonna this is gonna suck for Nico Harrison
because Lucas going to get to the Lakers and realize,
oh man, I just found my way out of where
(37:14):
I thought I was gonna play my entire career. Where
I was I was the king of Dallas. Yeah, let's
get rid of this guy and bring in a guy
who can't stand out of the corn. But sure, and
now I need to make sure I'm straightening up and
flying right because I want that big contract. It's a
big it's a big spotlight on me now in Los Angeles.
So I knew he's going to take care of his body,
(37:35):
and clearly he did, because you saw him tonight looked
like a guy that is ready to come out and
have a big middle finger tour to the rest of
the NBA. Oh, you thought I was pudgying out of shape,
and I was, and you thought that I couldn't do it. Here,
I come watch the season that I have with the Lakers,
whether Lebron plays or not, I will carry us, just
(37:56):
like I did with the Mavericks when it was me
and a bunch of guys. Minutes for Luca tonight, they
lose to the Suns one thirteen, one oh four, but
it's preseason. Everybody's playing about twenty minutes. In twenty two minutes,
Luca twenty five points, seven rebounds, and four assists, including
this one, his first bucket of the season. Not playing
(38:17):
this season, Luca back at forth. Now watch good luck
with that, and he's gonna score one. He had no
chance against the dun Billy Mack on Lakers TV with
the call. That was the kind of night it was
for Luca. Look, Austin rees Is terrific tonight as well,
he had twenty five points. It was really Luca and Austin. Look, obviously,
no Lebron, James, Ruyja Chimora didn't play. You know, they
(38:40):
played some of their guys. But I'm telling you there's
something to be said about motivation following the trade. And
while Luca it took him a little while. I'm sure
his head was spinning that I got traded middle of
the season. Looking was it took a while for us
to get used to wow lucas a Laker? What the hell?
Man didn't go the way the end of the season
they expected? Clearly you saw Luca. Is he in shape?
(39:02):
What has he playing a lot of minutes? Is he
able to play all these minutes? Coming off the injury
last year? I get all of it, but I knew
coming off of that we're gonna into this season it's
gonna be the Luka doncich Oh. You think that I'm
I'm past my prime and i can't do what I
used to do, and I'm out of shape, and I'm
and I'm worrying too much about all right, you just watch.
This is gonna be some kind of of season for Luka.
(39:23):
Doncic and I'm not gonna be surprised when he's in
the top three MVP voting all the way through the year,
because he knows. Okay, this is what I'm ready for.
I'm gonna show you all. I'm in my mid twenties,
I am still Luca. It's gonna be some kind we're
going Lebron or not, some kind of year for Luca. Yeah,
I'm not worried about him.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
He'll show up when his body or when when the
he needs some attention because I mean, you see how
many interviews he's doing now about his marriage, about life
and whatever else. You know, you find if you stole
my money, I find you like now it all of
a sudden, Ye take you out. It's like, okay, some
next level stuff. Yeah, with Luca, I mean think about
(40:03):
all the money he lost in terms of you know,
resetting how the contracts have to at least one hundred
million dollars, plus the fact that he's now in California.
If you if you haven't recognized your paycheck, I certainly
do in money.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Oh yeah, taking a lot of my money. Yeah, dude,
mister Fico takes a lot of money for me.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Well, but the state of California versus the state of Texas,
and I don't even have it, Uncle Sam.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
No, it doesn't matter. You gotta get him money anyway. Yeah,
he's still there figurative, Uncle Sam. He's waiting on you.
You got to do your part. But yeah, for Luca,
it's gonna be fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
I mean, and we'll get to have a front row
seat here every night, curious to see how this team
coalesces over time. You got big game from Austin Reeves tonight.
DeAndre Ayton, I joke about it, but if you can
keep him healthy, like we've seen him be dominant right,
particularly on the defensive end of things. So if if
you can get him healthy for whatever we get into
(41:00):
load management and however many games you want to put
an over under at, he's going to be a pivotal
piece to what the Lakers do in the Western Conference. Yeah,
get ready, get it and whatever they can do to
set up the trade the next trade for Dalton connect
Oh yeah, sure, sure, yeah, because you know you never
got to do it at some point, right, I'd be
showcasing him a lot of minutes.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Man, he got nineteen minutes tonight and he was two
or four from the field exit, up by a Fresca exit,
swollen dome again, the Luka Doncic middle Finger Tour. Get
ready coming to a city near you, very very soon.
I have it right here. Go ahead, you got it.
Oh they go there it is, Hey, Frostburg, Get there
it is. That's a Justin Frostburg middle Finger Tour. Well,
I mean that was his poster. Two Big Stories out
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Speaker 2 (01:06):
You know, the oddest thing I've seen in UH sports
today is on television in front of me.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
DeAndre just doesn't.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Look right and it Lakers, you're just keeps perplexing me
every time I see him, Like, yeah, okay, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
They're gonna let him wear a Sun's uniform in the
games count, so you understand he's playing bizarro world. It
was weird for me when jose Canseco got traded to
the Rangers, and I'm like, is it Ranger? They gonna
let him wear his A's jersey, because like, come on, man,
I can identify come that's who he is. That's right,
(01:41):
that's White Sox, a legend, jose Can jersey. Whatever tav
he goes to, he wears his as jersey. So Game
two of the NLCS an absolute dominant pitching performance by
Yoshinoba Yamamoto on the heels of Blake Snell's eight innings,
one hit effort the night before, Dodgers winned five to one.
(02:02):
The only blemish for Yamamoto a leadoff home run in
the first pitch, and that was it. The Dodgers go
back to LA up two games to none, and the
final out of Yamamoto's gem sounded like this, He's the
O two, had a swing at a mess and Yoshi
Yamamoto with his crown jewel as a Dodger. It is
(02:27):
a complete game.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
He goes the distance, and the Dodgers win Game two
by a score of five to one.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
TBS on the call, and look, we've talked about this
the last hour, right to pay this off. This is
going to be terrific. So we said, okay, when's the
last time in baseball history we've seen back to back
games like this from a team in a series?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Blake Snell eight innings facing the minimum, because remember the
hit he gave up, he picked the guy off, So okay.
And then Yamamoto complete game tonight, first complete game for
the Dodgers in the playoffs since ho'se A Lima in
two thousand and four. This is absolute dominance, right for
both them. Seventeen innings pitched right, four hits, seventeen strikeouts,
(03:14):
absolutely dominant insanity. We threw this out there, when's the
last time? And I have some candidates, and then I
have one that makes you go, oh, that's the best. Okay,
here we go. So twenty ten World Series Game four,
Game five, Madison Bumgarner, Tim lincicm okay, okay. Game four,
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Bumgarner eight innings, three hits, no run, six strikeouts. Game five,
Tim Lincicam eight innings, three hits, one run, ten strikeouts.
Very very similar, right, very very similar to say, what
an arm that I had two thousand and one World
Series Game one in game two, right, because we talked
about maybe Shilling and Johnson Shilling Game one seven, three hits,
(04:01):
one run, eight strikeouts, Randy Johnson Game two complete game
eleven strikeouts, shut out. Okay, so again very similar, right,
very similar. Now you had two from your two thousand
and five.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Years Susy dominated as a whole.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Take the Yeah, so those are all good. So those
are all good, right, those are all competitive with with
this has shows you how good Snell and Yamamoto were.
We're talking about the twenty ten World Series, the two
thousand and one World Series. But now I'm going to
go back to the one where you go, oh, yeah, no,
this was better. This was better, and I got this,
(04:38):
and I gotta find that who was on Twitter and
give him credit for it. The nineteen sixty six World
Series And when he said sixty six, I'm like, oh,
that was the Orioles sweeping the Dodgers. Here's how dominant
the Orioles were. Game two, Game three, Game four, Jim
Palmer complete game, six strikeouts, Orioles beat the Dodgers six nothing.
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Game three, guy named Wally Bunker. I mean, come on, man,
that dods a good game, met Orioles pitching staff. But
I meant Wally Bunker complete game, six strikeouts, no runs.
They won one nothing. Okay. So that's back to back
complete game shutouts by Jim Palmer and Wally Bunker. Game
four Dave McNally complete game, four hits, shutout, win, one nothing,
(05:31):
they win the World Series. That's three complete game shutouts
in a row in the World Series where the Dodgers
in twenty seven innings got fourteen hits, six hitter in
the first game. For it's in the second game, for
it's in the third game. Uh yeah, okay, there's your
one right there. Clearly. All the other ones you can argue, Hey,
(05:53):
maybe Bumgard, Linscam sure, maybe Shilling Johnson, sure, but three
complete game shutouts in a row, four fourteen total hits.
The only thing the strikeout totals aren't great, but it
doesn't matter. You're talking about complete game shutouts in fourteen
it's in three games. Uh Palmer Bunker McNally, nineteen sixty six.
That's the last time, Yo, dummy up? Will you thinking?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
That was his post game after night they called him
Archie after Archie, how was your the inspiration for Archie Bunker?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Eight seven seven? How is your game? Get await me,
Get await me, get await me. Not liking the media already.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Now I want to go back and look at the
life and times of Wally Bunker. I mean, because I
know everybody else, all their names, you know, from that,
from that Orle's pitching staff. Right, Mike Quaar was there too, right,
one of the greatest pitching staffs is all. Here's Wally
Bunker had nine years in the Major leagues, sixty and
fifty two career record, nineteen wins in nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
He played for the Orioles from.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Sixty three to sixty eight, and then three years with
Kansas City, but sixty and fifty two. For the career,
he had thirty four complete games. Yeah, thirty four complete
games in two hundred and six appearances, one hundred and
fifty two starts.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Now, the one thing that's pretty good, you won every five.
Just keep going. But now, but now, the one thing
I'm gonna say is that, now, okay, here's three games
in a row with this kind of dominance, which is
why it gives it the advantage. But understand that complete games, yes,
they happened a lot more often back in the sixties, right,
you had got you had guys that would have fifteen
or seventeen complete games. That's just that we don't get
(07:38):
much fear anymore. It's still this pitch. It's still the
pitching look. And the sixties was the era of the pitcher, right,
and then they had to change them and then to
change them out because of Bob Gibson in nineteen sixty
eight with his one point one seventy era. So, yes,
the sixties was the era of the pitcher. But this
is still some kind of dominance where you're talking in
the World Series three straight shutouts. How many complete games
in the regular season do you think there were?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
The sure in the overall overall Okay, hang on, so
third overall Major, I'm gonna say thirty teams.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Maybe each team averaged between one and two. I'm gonna
say I'll go into it. I'll say forty five, twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Wow, you were twenty twenty four now twenty nine, twenty eight, Hey,
twenty twenty three with they're twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, I don't have that data. How do you not
have that?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
How do you have twenty nine and twenty four? We're done,
twenty nine and twenty five, twenty eight and twenty four.
How do you look at twenty twenty three?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Because the Google machine only gave me those last two.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
How about you getting there? No, I don't have that
because it did the comparison those two years. There were
thirty seven in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Thirty seven. I mean you're thirty seven. You're averaging thirty
seven to in a row. You're averaging one. Each team
is averaging one complete game of season. Look, now, it's
a big deal when a guy pitches through seven innings
in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
When it started, goes seven innings, right that that's now
the big deal. Twenty eight and twenty twenty two, it's
like one complete game of year by a team. You
saved the bullpen. Okay, yeah, just ridiculous. But it's different
because most teams it's saving the bullpen. For the Dodgers,
it's just we don't want them in the game because
the bullpen is gonna kill us. That's the only thing
that's gonna kill us in this postseason, So we gotta
(09:16):
make sure they don't get in the game the least
amount of guys we can get in the game. Okay, great,
but think about that, right, I mean, we watched it
with Dave Roberts yesterday with Blake Snell, and we questioned
he was over one hundred pitches, right, the imaginary, mythical,
imaginary line, right, don't cross that line?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah? What happens if I do? And your arm's gonna
fall off and go into the third deck? I don't know.
But he didn't. He didn't go out.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
He brought Sasaki in and Sasaki's control was terrible. Twenty
two pitches, ten, ten strikes, and before you know it,
it's on to Blake Trinon, who was an adventure and
they get out of it, succeed and proceed. But a
lot of time to then think about if I got
a gain.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
It's really dealing. Do I really want to open that door? Yeah?
Do I really want to see what's behind door?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Number?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
To think about that from the Dodger's perspective, right, just
think about this for a second. Dave Roberts itches to
go to the bullpench whether it's you know, from high
up to day.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
He doesn't. He doesn't feel like he's doing anything unless
I go to the bullpen, right like Dave Roberts probably
feels like, dude, I don't even need a postgame shower.
Didn't even manage to it. What did I do? I
sat there and watch Yamamoto just absolutely deal for nine innings.
But just think about this. Yamamoto's up at one hundred pitches, right,
He's up at one hundred pitches. It's a four run lead,
and you know, I always go back to John Paul Morose,
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who's gonna join us in a few minutes, where he says,
if you don't have a pitcher in the ninth you
can bring in the ninth inning that can protect a
three run lead, then quite honestly, they shouldn't be in
Major League baseball. Okay, shouldn't be in Major League baseball. Oh,
very right.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Now, you have a day off tomorrow before you go.
Now it's a day game in on Thursday, so yeah,
right eight yeah, so six oh eight eastern.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, but but still you have it.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
You have a day off now six oh eight three
h eight six seven six seven six seven.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Uh so you have a day off. So it doesn't matter.
And still with Yamamoto at one hundred pitches, he didn't
go to the bullpen for someone for three outs with
a four run lead. Just think about that. Yes, it's
growth from Dave Roberts. Hey, look he's learning, but it's
also knowing. Okay, as much as I like these guys
and want to say they're my guys, I can't go
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to them unless I have to. I can't go there.
This is that Dave Roberts should say. Every should have
something written on each of his hand saying that says
do I have to do? I not have to write
when you have to go. This is the Dodgers. When
you have to go to the bullpen, you go to
the bullpen. If you don't have to go, don't go
because your bullpen is terrible.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
It's Kronk and the Emperor's new Groove with the angel
on one shoulder on the other.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Okay, what do I do?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
But a lot of it goes to why why open
the door? Like it's the we ask all the all
the time? Why add variables to things that you don't
need to Right? If the equation is simple, this guy's dealing.
They're not getting a good at bat right, you didn't
see a lot of hard hit balls. It's not like Yamamoto.
Outside of that ball from Cheerio, that was it. Like
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after that pitch, he locked in and that was the
end of it. And so why open the door to
what has been chaotic, especially with a team that all
season long their hallmark was being scrappy, aggressive on the
base pats, working at bats, and they didn't do any
of that. Right, So right now you've got them the
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proverbial where you want them, not just because you're up
to nothing, but even within those games, they didn't stretch
at bats. They didn't you know, go up there and
just say, all right, I may not get a hit,
but I'm gonna have an eight pitch at bat.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
It was none of that.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
It was they were still going up, you know, get
them on, get them over, get them in. As their
mo all year talked about one hundred plus one seventy
four in terms of run differential and the most wins
in Major League Baseball, and a lot of that was
stationed to station and being aggressive on the bass pass.
Guess what didn't find the base pass control was good?
What was in eighty eighty one strikes to thirty balls
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or whatever for the night.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I again, what are you gonna do? So for Dave Roberts,
he didn't go to that temptation.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
He left it behind. Exit out, out of Fresco, Exit
swollen dom. I'm proud of Dave Roberts for not managing
Big Day. I'm proud of him for not managing He
sat there.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Now he looked a lot happier than Murphy did, because
every shot of him, it looked like.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Do you think we'll forgeta seeing. There's gonna be video
we find later where Roberts is just tied to the
dugout steps and like they won't let him move. No, no, no,
we're sticking with you. There will be no call to
the play. Snell is just taping him to the to
the dugout. Yeah, he's like on a pole trying to
get on it. He'll let me go back out there yesterday,
Dave coming up next, We got John Boma, Rosie stopped
(13:49):
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Speaker 4 (15:16):
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What the hell are you doing in our studio? Hit him, Paulie,
Ignore that fool.
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Speaker 1 (15:41):
He's still moving Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show
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He is longtime friend of the show network insider extraordinaire.
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You can follow him on Twitter at John Morosi. It
is the Pope, John Paul Morosi, John Paul Happy tidings.
Welcome to Seattle. Did you get a coffee yet?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
No coffee is yet, my friends, because as you well know,
it is nine to twenty two Pacific time. So I'm
going to just I'm hoping that at some point I'm
able to reacclimate my circadian rhythms to this beautiful coast
that is your home. And I did though. In the
journey that I had Wes, I learned a bit of
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the tales of the legend of Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and so
I am well acquainted with what has transpired in Milwaukee
this evening. And I think a night like this, my friends,
require some historical context, because what a performance by Yoshi.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, we went back, John Paul. We've done this over
the course of the past hour and a half, and
the show's been a really fun thing. The last time
you've seen back to back starts like this in playoff
history with Snell and Yamamoto. And the only thing that
beats it is you got to go back to the
nineteen sixty six World Series when the Orioles shut out
the Dodgers the last three games. Palmer and somebody named
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Wally Bunker and Dave McNally six, nothing won, nothing won,
nothing like that's the last time we've seen something more
than this dominant in the play. There's other closer ones.
You know, we got the Diamondbacks in two thousand and one,
the Giants in twenty ten. That is, that is, you know,
neck and neck with this. But the last time something
like this you got to go back to nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Right, Well, I'm I'm intrigued. And the one the one
that I would ask and maybe Mike can have a
thought on this. The White Sox rotation in the ALCS
five was quite was quite good. Maybe not quite on
this level, but that was the backbone of how they
were able to beat the Angels there in those five games.
But let's be clear, I mean this is this is
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now a generational and a rotation.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
This is a generation Wait wait, wait where are you?
John Paula? You and Seattle? Are you in Italy? Where
are you?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
No, I'm I'm in Seattle. I was just I was
just getting getting out of the cab.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
You think the cabby and Italian? I don't know. That
was Spanish, Spanish, Spanish. It was very fast, very fast.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Okay, wow, Yeah, that's that's you know, I mean, uh,
that's that is that I have found, as a traveler
and lover of languages, that that cab rides are are
a wonderful time to practice like.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
So hence that was that was me contemplating, uh, whether
I will place Yamamoto and Snell in the state conversations
John Parland and Jose Contreras while I was getting out
of the cap.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
No, I'm impressed. I can't believe I didn't know you
were fluent in Spanish as well, So Spanish and Italian.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I'm I'm probably better in Spanish lanm in Italian. My
Italian is is passable. I mean, I would describe myself
as as not as not fully fluent in either. But
I have considerably more practice speaking Spanish in my day
to day job than I do speaking Italian. Now, is
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there a dream of mine that at some point in
time that Major League Baseball will will have this influx
of amazing Italian talent and I'll be able to do
Italian interviews every day. That may be somewhere in the
recesses of my mind, but I'll tell you what, I'm
not to cover ball for a long time before that happens.
I think that's that's what I'm to do. But but no,
I'm grateful to speak both. We try at our house
(19:35):
to have both both four languages going as well, and so, yeah,
it's part of a part of the journeys. I appreciate
your interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, I figured you were going to go straight into
Oceans eleven too. He's working on his Japanese. I hear
he's getting pretty good at it too.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
I'll tell you this, I had, through through covering baseball
around the world, having been in Japan twice, I have
I have learned how to how to congratulate uh tokuz Imasu.
I learned to say a couple of different times beating
great performance. And I think that that the greeting is
certainly in order based on the way the Alma motive
is share today.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, I do appreciate you bringing up the the two
thousand and five white Socks, Burley and Garland and Andrera's.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And Pardi Garcia. I mean, I mean that was check
go back and just check what that rotation did in
the five alcs. I'm not gonna probably now where any
of those guys throwing ninety two mile an hour splitters
that moved like three feet like the last pitch Dandard
Vaughan probably not. And Sell was unbelievable yesterday. Sell stuff again,
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probably a little more overwhelming than Burley stuff, if we're
being accurate. But but this just shows you when when
elite talents like the Dodgers have many have have time
to really hone in and prepare for these very very
big starts. It's just the results are are and credit
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Dave Roberts. I mean, there's there's a lot of managers
now that would that that would maybe have pulled him
at one hundred pitches or had some kind of a
formula to get him out of the game. I think
that Dave and Mark Bryer had the had the presence
of mind to say, you know what, look at what
our guys doing. Look how dominant he is. I am
in no rush to get this guy out of the
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ball game. I mean, that's to me, that combination of stuff.
When you're when you're quote unquote breaking pitch is a
ninety two mile hour splitter that moves like three feet,
it seems like it's just it's not fair. That's that's
what I was saying. I mean, he's allowed the grace
of one mistake to Suio to begin the game, and
then it's just sheer dominance after that. And you know,
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maybe the Brewers big chance would have been last night
when Sasaki wobbled a little bit in the ninth inning
and Trina was able to somehow get the last out.
It's but this Dodger team looks awfully dominant and and
today I think was a of how you win at
postseason games. Some early power pies as an RBI single
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Otani does too. You get the big homer from Taskar,
and then Monthy he gets on the board too. It's
just that was a clinic of some small ball and
some big ball there for the Los Angeles Dodge.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Just amazing, though, JP, with all the pitching dominance, how
much we might be talking about a much different world
if Duranon just takes one for the team.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Well, and that's a great point, and I appreciate bringing
it up, but I think it's certainly something that people
have have debated a little bit in the last twenty
four hours. Here's where I'm out on that. That is,
that is a case of human instinct. That is, you know,
if you're Bryce Terrangue in that situation. I don't think
in any way, shape or form, you have it on
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your bingo car that hey, I want to in this
moment give myself up and get kit. I think the
idea is I'm going to come through my team. Uh,
this is my plan of attack to hit the ball.
And again, I just I think that is a momentary reaction.
That that that's almost like blaming, blaming me if my
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eyes are half closed in a picture, which happens half
the time, so so like it's just like that's like
a natural It's like a blink of a human reaction.
Same thing for Terang. I will never criticize them for it,
even though is it is it the reality that if
you've been hit at the different story, Yeah, it probably is.
But that's just kind of like a momentary flinch for
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which I don't think any human could be expected to,
uh to execute in the moment.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Well, here's a disagree with you, John paul Is. I've
taken a lot of pictures and I see the blame
that happens when someone doesn't have their eyes open. Come on,
keep your eyes open. Not you have seen that many times.
I've seen that a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Here here's my thought along those lines. This is just
a thought that I have that these are the things
I think about on these long flights across our contests,
like how much how much bandwidth? How how many? How many?
Does does this even matter? By the way, how many
pieces of the cloud are currently occupied by like eight
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duplicates of the same photo that we're all taken by
somebody saying Okay, is this good? This good? We get it,
we get it, we get it's like eight, Like is
there not enough AI in the world that would just
like shrink all of that? And then what everybody's what
everybody's wireless network? Like function a couple and bps is better?
That's that's an abbreviation. That's the things I think about
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is that that may or may not be the actual
technical abbreviation. But I just wonder how many how many
little bits of of of memory are being saved by
like the eight ex duplicates of the same picture that
you never are actually going to turn out anyway, So
why do we even take them? That's what I'm gonna ask.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Wow, you should do a TED talk on that. You're
in Seattle. You can talk to guys like Bill Gates
and everybody and say listen. I got an idea.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I've heard, I've heard there there have been a couple
of companies that have been founded here that are dedicated
to this.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Now you said bp to not BTS not going into
your music list, right, No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
That's no, that's like is that like? Now that's NAPSU Right,
naps You're.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Still thing is yeah, nas ripping songs and put you
Absolutely Napster's the thing. John Paul Network inside of John
Paul Morosi. Our guest here, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, live
from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right, you're there
for the Alcs. Look, this is the biggest question. You
now have two teams going home up to ZIP. Is
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there anything that's stopping us from a Dodgers Mariners World Series?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Sure? I still think that, First of all, we have
not seen the best of the Blue Jays yet. I
think on the National League side, the Brewers, I mean
it's gonna be a challenge. I mean they've got to
go win the series in LA, and the Dodgers are
looking as as overpowering as can be. I think there's
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probably a better chance of a comeback on the American
League side than there is on the on the National
League side, the Jays, they're just they're a better team
than they've showed the last couple of days. They're just
they're just better. Uh. Now the Adle's playing phenomenally well,
and actually now the pitching matchup probably in some ways
favor the Addle in the next couple of games too.
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You're you're hoping that Shane Bieber can wind it back,
and you're opening that Max Suers that can wind it back.
Maybe that's asking a bit too much, uh, but you're
asking Vladimir Guerrero Junior to just be himself. The one
thing I will say though, is that the bill might
finally be coming due for the Jays in the sense
that they they are now feeling the absence of Bob
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Bachet in a way they weren't before. H when when
the rest of lineup was was producing, you could maybe
get by without Bow. But now there's no bow. And
then Anthony Santan there in the last game was not
able to play because of the back issue. So there's
the injuries are and the concerns are compounding on the
on the Toronto side, But I still see more offensive
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upside in the Blue Jays than I do with the Brewers,
so I think probably the Dodgers will be the nationalau
champions again. But I'm looking at the series I'm covering
here and saying there's a path for the Jays to
at least get this series back to Tronal for a
game six, and at that point in time anything can happen.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Oddsmakers giving the Blue Jays a fifteen percent implied odds
right now to come back and win it, whereas the
Dodgers sitting at ninety four percent probability based on the
odds as they sit right now.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
JP.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Let me go back to the Dave Roberts side of
things for a moment in the NLCS. Do you think
last night may may have spooked him a bit to
where he didn't want to go to the pen with
Yamamodo going free and easy.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, I think that's possible. I think it was probably both.
To be honest with you, the Dodgers are very savvy
in terms of how they manage the workloads of their pictures,
and Rokie, after struggling with his command and throwing as
many pitches as he did last night, I don't think
Dave Roberts was in any rush to get him into
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the game. Let's put it that way. And and the
Dodger bullpen has been a bit of a riddle for
them for a long time. And so I think now
it's amazing. And how about this for a script that
has flipped. The Dodgers used to be this team that
almost never let their starters go deep, and now they've
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done it. And back to that game, I think that
that is maybe the personnel changing. That might also be
Dave Roberts evolving a little bit. But I think that's
that's a great observation by you, Mike, that that there's
that maybe some of the bullpen worries were weighing into it.
But I also think that maybe the calculus has changed
a little and how and how they look at the
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disparity between the quality of their starters and the quality
of their options in the pen. After dealing with injuries
and times where whether it was Clayton or others, that
maybe they were trying to not take deep as deep
in the games, And thinking about all those times by
the way that rich Hill was pulled before he thought
he should have been pulled, I mean, that was that
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was a story in October, year after year after year.
I think the philosophy is different, but also, let's be honest,
the personnel is different. Rich Hill.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I love Rich Hill.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Rich Hill was not throwing like Blake Snell's pitching last night.
It's different, a different kind of the pitcher. And they
have right now two cy young types in Snell and
Yamamono that are really at the peak of their powers.
And and by the way, we haven't even you know,
Tony pitch yet, but this is in this series, so
there's just there's a lot. There's just a lot of firepower.
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Now for the Dodgers, it's going to be hard to be.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
You can fall him on Twitter at John Morosi, That
is at John Morossi, MLB Network Insider in Seattle for
the Alcs. John Paul will talk to you later on
this week. We'll get your lines picked this week. Again,
you were right on with the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I know it's hard to go back to Michigan after
making that pick, but uh, do you think he went
straight to Seattle. The NFL pundit that you are is
really I mean it as well. I gotta admit Italy,
NFL you can do.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
It all, man.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
If I'm not mistaken, I think I am actually so
the Lions might be foreign to this year, but I'm six,
and oh yeah, I think you are about I mean,
there you go. That's not bad. I mean again, it's
not exactly a leap of faith and say, hey, I've
heard the Keansby Keeps are a pretty good football team, like.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
We know that.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
But but I'm I'm actually pretty proud of myself. Next
with picks. I mean, I probably should have a different
vocation at this point.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
The only thing you can't do is have a cup
of coffee at nine o'clock at night. It is John Paul,
and I cannot do that.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Will got to make sure that.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
John Paul just wait ten years till you're my age.
Then all of a sudden I can have a cup
of coffee at nine o'clock. Just wait, just wait a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
My dad, My dad is in his seventies and he
will have an espresso after a meal. I was a dad.
Why man, why they just hard on yourself that you
won't listen to me, because you know what, when when
Dad's hit seventies, they officially just they just stopped listening
to everybody.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
It's great call. We'll talk to you later on this week,
there goes John Paul Larrose. Best just wait, you can
be able to You'll be have coffee at nine o'clock
at night and have been happen for you time out
to find out what's trending in the wide world. Sportsman,
guy who I see pour a double espresso at eleven
o'clock every night.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
After it's Steve to say, yeah, guys. For the Dodgers,
this was ball game number one seventy tonight. This was
their first complete game of the year. ELA is up
two games to none in the NLCS after winning five
to one at top seeded Milwaukee. So the Dodgers are
the first team ever to not throw a complete game
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regular season and then throw one in a victory that postseason.
And you referenced the White Sox starting staff in that
ALCS against the Angels twenty years ago. What we've gotten
from the Dodger starters these first two nights of the
series seventeen total innings. The White Sox got seventeen and
a third that year to start the series against the
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Halos from Jose Contreras and Mark Burley. But if you
go back the last three LA starts, the clincher against
Philadelphia last week with Tyler Glasnow. These last three LA starts,
the starting pitchers have allowed six hits total six for
seventy five at the plate against them, an eighty batting average,
and Glass Now will be back on the hill Thursday
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afternoon for Game three hosting Milwaukee. The Dodgers did, by
the way, go not only seventeen innings from starters the
first two games, but back in nineteen eighty one they
had that and only one run aloud total. There was
a first round series nineteen eighty one Dodgers Houston. Each
team did that against the other. Dodgers had Fernando Venezuela,
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Jerry Royce going up against Nolan Ryan of Houston, and
Joe Nicro. So it's been a while since we've seen
this kind of pitching back to back in the postseason,
and now it's an O two hole for the top
seeded team in the National League. And history is not
on their side because in the last forty years since
nineteen eighty five, only three teams have been down two
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in a best of seven in the LCS and come
back to win it. The Dodgers were one of those
teams in twenty twenty, but to take a two to
zero lead on the road. That's an especial strangled hold historically.
In fact, I saw this stat today with the nineteen
eighty six Mets. Remember they lost the first two at
home and they came back to win the World Series
in seven. Since nineteen eighty six, it's only happened once
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where a team lost the first two at home and
a best of seven came back. That was the Yankees
nineteen ninety six. Remember they were almost down three games
to note against the Braves and still came back late.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Hit that big home Jim Lairetz.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Yeah, I hit that big home run absolutely, so you
know there are still games to play. But wow, what
have we seen from the Dodgers starting pitching these first
two nights. It was a complete Game three hit from
tonight's winner Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The alcs is off Mariners won
the first two on the road. They lead to ozer
in the series against Toronto. Game three on FS one
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in Seattle on Wednesday night in the NHL eight games total,
including an overtime win for Montreal against Seattle, an overtime
win for Washington against Tampa Bay, Edmonton a two nothing
winner at the Rangers. The New York Rangers have been
shut out in their first three home games of the season.
That has not happened before.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
They're the Jets of hockey Steve stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
They're getting influenced. The Ducks at Homer tied with Pittsburgh
three to three early third period. The Dallas Mavericks gave
coach Jason Kidd a multi year extension. There were NBA
exhibitions tonight. Luka Doncic with his preseason debut for the
Lakers this year twenty five points. For what it's worth,
the Sun sitting starters did wind up winning the game.
The NBA exhibition schedule ends this Friday night. The regular
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season opens Tuesday, the twenty first. Yukon is number one
in the women's basketball preseason POL ahead of number two
South Carolina UCLA number three in AP And It's been
quite a week for Japan, not just with Yamamoto and
company over here. Japan's soccer team beat rival South Korea
five nothing in an exhibition on Friday, and then Japan
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hosted Brazil in an exhibition tonight and scored two goals
in the second half. Japan beat Brazil three to two.
This evening, Wow us Men Socker was in Colorado with
an exhibition, beating Australia two to one. Hodji Wright with
both goals. Mexico tied Ecuador one to one.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve Oh, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon,
lot from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next
a superstar debut tonight that I don't think people are
really gonna understand what kind of season this guy's gonna have.
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Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. We got more
football coming up at about ten minutes, a double shot
of stories, double up. But tonight we had the preseason
debut of Skinny Luca. Oh, I thought you were the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I thought it was all about DeAndre Ayton, Skinny Luca
or lay up missing Bronni James.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Well, that's gonna happen. But you saw the pictures all
off season. Is he really this skinny?
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Is he not?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Luka donci is clearly showing that he has taken care
of his body in the off season again. And we
and we we got into this during the trade, which
is you know, this is one of those things where
it's gonna wind up looking bad for the Mavericks because
with the Mavericks, Luca had been calling the shots. He
doesn't have to get into shape, right, I'm the franchise here.
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I don't need to get into shape. He was never
gonna do that, which is part of why the Mavericks
soured on him, got rid of him a year early
before they weren't gonna sign him. They make the trade
for Anthony Davis. And when that happened, I said, boy,
this is gonna this is gonna suck for Nico Harrison
because Lucas going to get to the Lakers and realize,
oh man, I just found my way out of where
(37:14):
I thought I was gonna play my entire career. Where
I was I was the king of Dallas. Yeah, let's
get rid of this guy and bring in a guy
who can't stand out of the corn. But sure, and
now I need to make sure I'm straightening up and
flying right because I want that big contract. It's a
big it's a big spotlight on me now in Los Angeles.
So I knew he's going to take care of his body,
(37:35):
and clearly he did, because you saw him tonight looked
like a guy that is ready to come out and
have a big middle finger tour to the rest of
the NBA. Oh, you thought I was pudgying out of shape,
and I was, and you thought that I couldn't do it. Here,
I come watch the season that I have with the Lakers,
whether Lebron plays or not, I will carry us, just
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like I did with the Mavericks when it was me
and a bunch of guys. Minutes for Luca tonight, they
lose to the Suns one thirteen, one oh four, but
it's preseason. Everybody's playing about twenty minutes. In twenty two minutes,
Luca twenty five points, seven rebounds, and four assists, including
this one, his first bucket of the season. Not playing
(38:17):
this season, Luca back at forth. Now watch good luck
with that, and he's gonna score one. He had no
chance against the dun Billy Mack on Lakers TV with
the call. That was the kind of night it was
for Luca. Look, Austin rees Is terrific tonight as well,
he had twenty five points. It was really Luca and Austin. Look, obviously,
no Lebron, James, Ruyja Chimora didn't play. You know, they
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played some of their guys. But I'm telling you there's
something to be said about motivation following the trade. And
while Luca it took him a little while. I'm sure
his head was spinning that I got traded middle of
the season. Looking was it took a while for us
to get used to wow lucas a Laker? What the hell?
Man didn't go the way the end of the season
they expected? Clearly you saw Luca. Is he in shape?
(39:02):
What has he playing a lot of minutes? Is he
able to play all these minutes? Coming off the injury
last year? I get all of it, but I knew
coming off of that we're gonna into this season it's
gonna be the Luka doncich Oh. You think that I'm
I'm past my prime and i can't do what I
used to do, and I'm out of shape, and I'm
and I'm worrying too much about all right, you just watch.
This is gonna be some kind of of season for Luka.
(39:23):
Doncic and I'm not gonna be surprised when he's in
the top three MVP voting all the way through the year,
because he knows. Okay, this is what I'm ready for.
I'm gonna show you all. I'm in my mid twenties,
I am still Luca. It's gonna be some kind we're
going Lebron or not, some kind of year for Luca. Yeah,
I'm not worried about him.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
He'll show up when his body or when when the
he needs some attention because I mean, you see how
many interviews he's doing now about his marriage, about life
and whatever else. You know, you find if you stole
my money, I find you like now it all of
a sudden, Ye take you out. It's like, okay, some
next level stuff. Yeah, with Luca, I mean think about
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all the money he lost in terms of you know,
resetting how the contracts have to at least one hundred
million dollars, plus the fact that he's now in California.
If you if you haven't recognized your paycheck, I certainly
do in money.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Oh yeah, taking a lot of my money. Yeah, dude,
mister Fico takes a lot of money for me.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Well, but the state of California versus the state of Texas,
and I don't even have it, Uncle Sam.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
No, it doesn't matter. You gotta get him money anyway. Yeah,
he's still there figurative, Uncle Sam. He's waiting on you.
You got to do your part. But yeah, for Luca,
it's gonna be fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
I mean, and we'll get to have a front row
seat here every night, curious to see how this team
coalesces over time. You got big game from Austin Reeves tonight.
DeAndre Ayton, I joke about it, but if you can
keep him healthy, like we've seen him be dominant right,
particularly on the defensive end of things. So if if
you can get him healthy for whatever we get into
(41:00):
load management and however many games you want to put
an over under at, he's going to be a pivotal
piece to what the Lakers do in the Western Conference. Yeah,
get ready, get it and whatever they can do to
set up the trade the next trade for Dalton connect
Oh yeah, sure, sure, yeah, because you know you never
got to do it at some point, right, I'd be
showcasing him a lot of minutes.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Man, he got nineteen minutes tonight and he was two
or four from the field exit, up by a Fresca exit,
swollen dome again, the Luka Doncic middle Finger Tour. Get
ready coming to a city near you, very very soon.
I have it right here. Go ahead, you got it.
Oh they go there it is, Hey, Frostburg, Get there
it is. That's a Justin Frostburg middle Finger Tour. Well,
I mean that was his poster. Two Big Stories out
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