October 30, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith: If you take out Game 4 against the Brewers and Game 3 against the Blue Jays, Ohtani is hitting .163 in the playoffs with 22K in 53 AB. Vlad's been way more consistent & better overall. Plus, the birth of a new NBA Superstar!
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Game five of the World Series, Treya Savage a huge game,
first rookie since nineteen forty nine to have ten strikeouts
in a World Series game. He dominates the Dodgers lineup
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the Blue Jays win the last two games of the series.
Now to go back to Toronto up three games to two,
now really quick, A great moment right now. We just
happen to see in some of the local postgame here
Fox Sports Radio, because now you know, it's the end
and we're seeing it Clayton Kershaw and it looks like
(01:30):
his entire family and I mean like there's a lot
of people out there in Kershaw, Jerseys enjoying being on
the field one more time because he's played his last
game at Dodger Stadium, retiring after this year. And again
I told you last night, I don't think we see
him again in the series. He had his legacy, he
had the mercer legacy is secure. He had his legacy
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securing situation when he had the big out at the
end in the you know, in the ninth inning of
Game three. And now to see him, you know, knowing
well that this is kind of it, that's going to
be it, and him and his family out on the
field right now while postgame is going on and joining
Dodger Stadium and the field one last time.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, I thought you were going to refer to the
out outdoors as fans were leaving. There were a couple
of guys that walked by. They had clearly had their
way with those beer bats. They looked like they were
carrying a full rack worth.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, yeah, beer bats.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
They were having a must have had a hard nine. Yes,
well they just went and picked up all the ones
people left behind, by the way, that's what I thought
you were referred. Instead, you get the you know, the
family that we go back to his wife and the
stands during that appearance, right, it was like all the
shots and cutaways of Sandy Kofax we got today. It's
like for one out. I think they went to Ellen
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like nine times. It tears are streaming down her face
as it finishes. But it's I mean, god, it's been
looking at all the years, two thousand and eight, Yeah,
and this is it. I mean, maybe we see Clayton
Kershaw one more time. Maybe probably we don't, but you
could tell right now, you know, enjoying now that they've
left the field in the last minute or two, but
(03:07):
you saw him out there just having fun. Yeah, last
time we're gonna be out here like this is it?
Like it's not gonna happen again. Sure, I'm ready time
Clayton Kershaw wants to go on the field after the
game to allow him to but it's you know, while
he's playing, it's happening.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
This is it.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Man, you start talking about old timer's day. Yeah, come
throw out a first pitch.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, just think about that for Kershaw comes
at you fast. He's that a hell of a run though.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I mean even this year he was eleven and two
e er a still sub three five, got that big
out in Game three, all sorts of pomp and circumstance
and decorated. And I know there are those detractors out
there that were looking for the other shoe to drop.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It didn't. Now you're ready for my Game five World
Series playoff hot tape. I can't wait. You ready for this?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Okay go now, no matter how you slice it up,
Vladimir Guerrero Junior, greater than Show. Hey, O Tani, greater
than show I got. I'm gonna I'm gonna lay it
out for you. I'm gonna lay it out for you. Now.
We've talked about the impact and this is not anything,
This is not This is not an antiotanic thing more,
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it's a pro lad Junior thinger. We talked abou this
with John.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I mean, there's only winners and losers here, So if
you're if you're not first, just like in Cars one
winner forty three losers.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
We've talked about vladd Junior's impact as a leader. Right
after Game three, he waited for every one of his
teammates to come into the locker room after Freddie Freeman's
walk off and said, it's not over. You win four games,
not to stick with it, stick with it. Told every
one of his teammates that, and when you hit a
home run every game, okay, you back it up. Players
are gonna follow you. So his impact as a leader
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has been incredible. And we've talked about the Dodgers not
having that guy just because well they're superstars, they're likable,
they're they're people. Everybody respects them. It's hard to make
them the evil Empire. But at the same time, you
need that one guy that's gonna say, hey, I'm gonna
say what what no one else is saying. You guys
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have been playing like crap. We've been swinging the bats
like crap. This has been unacceptable and the Dodgers don't
have that guy. But vlad Junior has been that guy
for the Blue Jays, and clearly that his teammates have
talked about how he's inspired them with his play and
his you know, hey, his leadership. Don't give up. But
you want to look at the playoffs, now, Okay, Vlad
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Junior has been over a better than show Heyo Tani.
Vlad Junior's last ten games. Okay, so you're talking about
midway part of the ALCS into the World Series, like
so most of the ALCS D of the World Series.
He is hitting four fifty two. He is nineteen for
forty two, five home runs, thirteen runs scored, has been
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walked seven times. He has been absolutely unstoppable, and basically
he's been unstoppable since the playoffs started. But just to
go back the last ten games, right, just say what
what what have you been doing lately? He's got at least
one hit in every game and he is hitting four
fifty two. He has been absolutely lights out? All right,
(06:15):
vladis boy? Now is he? Okay? Now we'll go We'll
go to the next part of it. And I realize
I'm kind of cherry picking the stats here for a second,
but just to illustrate, show, hey, Otani take out Game four,
against the Brewers and take out Game three against the
Blue Jays. Now, it's hard to say that you're talking
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about the two greatest postseason games a player has had
in the history of the sport, right, because that's what
it is.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Otani six innings, pitch, ten strikeouts, three home runs against
the Brewers, on base nine times, two home runs, two doubles.
First guy with four extra base hits in a World
Series game since nineteen oh six. Right, So I realize
I'm saying, but take out these two games, Okay, just
take out these two games. For the playoffs. Otani is
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eight for fifty three. He is hitting one sixty three,
He has scored six runs. He has struck out twenty
two times in these fifty three at bats. Right, this
has not been We talk about Mooki Betts struggling, understandable
because hey, when Mooki Bets goes the lake, the Laker,
the Dodger lineup seems to go much better because he
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just has that effect on it. But Shoe Otani outside
of those two games has not been good man like.
Not only is he not only is he not getting
on bait, not only is he not hitting the ball,
he's striking out at an alarming rate. He's striking out
nearly in half is at bats. You see him lunging
for pitches. It's really difficult to see and it's and
it's hard to fathom because, well, you think Otani in
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these two games, but that's covering up the playoffs that
he has had that have been tons of opers. I mean,
his other get eight hits in all, and and two
of his home runs. He got three home runs overall,
two of them in that first game against the Reds
right where they you know, the Reds were completely outclass.
So you're talking about a playoff series of two games
against the Reds. The next series against the Phillies, didn't
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really hit against the Brewers, had the one game where
he hit here in the World Series, had one game
where he hit like, that's not gonna do it for you, man.
And you could talk about Betts as we have in
the other guys in the lineup not hitting. But this
is Otani outside of those two games. Not like you
add those two games, the stats look amazing. He'sn't like
two fifty when you add in the rest of those stats.
But that certainly amps up his postseason. But every other game.
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Take out those two games, Otani's sitting one sixty three
with twenty two strikeouts and fifty three at bats.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
He is precisely at two fifty as we sit here,
fifteen of sixty overall in the postseason. But you know,
on balls batted in play batting average on balls in
play three eighty five. Problem is he struck out twenty
two of that. That's the all thing. You got to
go back to the strikeouts.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
The other thing you go into Vladimir Guerrero.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And this one caught me off a little bit because
you know, we've talked about the batting average and obviously
the pension for hitting the big home run of late.
Here he's walked twice as many times as he struck
out in the playoffs, ten walks. He got his fifth
strikeout tonight, and that's how dialed in he's been. And
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it speaks to the overall Blue Jays idea of hey,
we're not going down swinging, We're not gonna go down looking.
We're putting the ball in play right, put pressure on opponents.
We talk about it and every other sport that you
and I break down here on Fox Sports Radio. Certainly
something we've preached to our daughters and their teammates in
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every sport that they've played, you with soccer and softball,
with me with the soccer world. For my kid, like
she's just yelling at her forde put the ball on net,
make the goalie do something right and get them off
the mark. Same thing here. We've watched how the defense
the Dodgers have been put off. But in this one
to one comparison, yeah, we've got some heroics and those
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are two games you'll never forget and they help propel
the Dodgers to where they are. Can't take that away.
But the overall arch, as we talked about with Jumpalmrosi
last hour, is game to game it's not been pretty. Right,
you had those five walks, well, that's some half his
walk total during these playoffs was intentional walks. In that
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Game three, he's not having graded bats. He's pulling off
and trying to pull everything right. That hit that he
had in the home run the other night, right, that
was his first opposite field hit since what September twentieth
or something. That was a full month of baseball where
you're and think about the strikeouts of you know, trying
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to overcorrect and yank down the right field foul foul line.
It's just been a difficult slog and you're not protected,
right because Mookie Bets has been that bad, which is
why they could do the walk, but you don't have
to pitch him, which means he gets anxious, Yeah, because
he wants to do something because he knows Mookie's going
poorly behind him. So it it becomes this compounded effect.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, it's it's real. It's it's the Dodger lineup, everybody
not hitting at the same time. It's two games from
Otani covering up everything else. It's the Dodger pitching in
the NLCS covering up everyone else. But like when when
when you say, okay, who's making this team?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Go?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The top three guys you're gonna say are Otani, Bets,
and Freeman, Right, those are your three guys, and Mookie
Bets has been lost. He's been lost for a long time.
They tried to drop I mean, I don't know dropping
him to third tonight was the right call, Like like, okay,
I get you have him second, but you're dropping him
to third really like that's gonna help?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Like, but that was that was the thing when I
when I signed it out and now it sos like
he's gonna be in the sixth right and then he's third,
Like is that is that wrong?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Like that we want to drop him to fifth to
bat in front of month see, Like okay, but you're
dropping him to third, like you if you don't want
him up when he's hitting second, you want Hi up
when he's hitting third, Like is it too much pressure?
Hitting behind o Toddley? He's a pro man, Mookie's been
in the league a while, he's a bro.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
But that's the biggest thing, right, It's what I've always
argued here with you and all my time here at
Fox Sports Radio and being a blathering idiot. Immediate overall
is you know, if you're worried about losing your quarterback,
right to mix sports for a second, and you know,
like a benching or change of philosophy or whatever, you're
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going to lose him. That's not your guy, because the
whole thing is about mental resolve of getting back up
for the next at bat, taking a sad getting back up,
throwing a pick, getting back in the huddle like all that.
If that's going to force a guy to be lost,
then you've already lost you've already picked the wrong guy.
And Mookie Betts has too long a track record, and
(12:51):
I think he's too prideful to suddenly go into some
shell because he gets dropped in a batting order. He's
already in a bad funk, right, hitting in another part
of the order. Isn't gonna do it because he knows
he can still help you make plays in the field.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
If I thought for a second that there would be
other batters who would step up, it wouldn't be that
big a deal. But clear, since they got Otani, they
have been Otani and bets Driven. Right, you've been Otani.
If Freddy's been great, right, Freddie Freeman's been awesome to
walkoffs in the World Series, he's been great. But you're
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Otani and Bets driven. You are top heavy the top
of that lineup. And we know Bets hasn't been good.
And Otani again, outside of those two games, he's had
a bad play. He still walks a lot. And that's
the thing, and that's what maybe makes you think, Okay,
he's having it that No, yeah, he walks a lot,
that's fine, but he's not hitting right. He's not hitting again.
Twenty two strikeouts in fifty three at bats. I mean,
(13:50):
this is this is this doesn't work, man. I mean,
Otani's had the two best games in playoff history. But
I think if you'd rather have mister consistent, which is
who has been great since the playoffs began, and he's
one to two hits every game, scoring a run every game,
hitting a home run almost every game. Vlad Junior has
been better than Shoeo Tani in the playoffs in the world,
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no matter how you cut it up, and then better
then just you know, overall philosophy, right of how the
team as they're playing Guerrero batting second, you got good
at bats in front of him. And that's one of
the things with Otani as well, right because out of
that ninth spot you've got nothing either. So as it wraps.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
From one inning, you know, as the inning goes on,
I mean, cal was another row for we already seen
Pahz who's somehow I don't I don't know what happened
to his bat. I mean, I've seen a lot of
jokes of co opting Joe bu for the Dodgers hitters
and putting that jersey on and trying to inspire something
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out of there. But It's It's been a tough slog,
no question about it, but the Heroics make up for
it in parts. And here we sit with two games
left potentially in this season. But all of it just
gamed the game. Very frustrating to watch, you know, as
a baseball fan looking for, you know, consistency and fluidity.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
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a Fresco exit swallen' Dome. We have more in the
World Series coming up next, but straight ahead after tonight,
have we just seen the birth of a new NBA superstar?
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we get off the air. We got more baseball coming
up in a few minutes. We look back at a
shocking turn of events the last couple of days and
have seen the Blue Jays take a three games a
two lead in the World Series. But I'm pretty sure
after what we just saw is the birth of a
new superstar in the NBA. It's not Cooper Flag. The
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Knicks were off tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Why's it got to be about the Knicks' You think
we already have established star. I mean, Dallas has bench
scored sixty. We already have established I was great.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
But after hitting this game winner tonight, this player has
graduated from hey, really good support player. Potentially could be
a number three guy on a team. Maybe if you
need to flip him to another team for a better
player as part of a trade, he could do that.
But no, the last three nights he has become an
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NBA star. La Rabia gets it. Rules now with five,
with four, we're three Austin down the Mids to win
the game, to win the game. What the winner they
are doing?
Speaker 7 (18:30):
What r does gets into the paint and all that
celebration that the Timberwolves are born.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Six seconds ago, I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Not doing that. Yeah, they didn't really celebrate.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Now. It was an eight point Laker lead over the
Timberwolves on the road in Minnesota with about two minutes
left to go. Some missshots, some made shots, and the
t Wolves took the lead with about nine seconds left
and did do a lot of jumping around and yeah,
we got it, we got it, We got it. Austin
ree another great game for him, twenty eight points, sixteen rebounds.
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You know he's taking the final shot. The Lakers have
played the last three games without Luca, who has sat out. Okay, now,
no Luca, no Lebron. The beginning of the season, not
exactly what the Lakers had in mind. We thought, Okay,
it's gonna be Luca's gonna stand up and take the
team and drag him around and say, okay, I'm gonna
keep us afloat until Lebron gets back, showing you that
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this is why I'm the present and future, and Lebron's
gonna be out after a year. But you had Austin
Reeves getting the lane for the leaner to win the
game tonight, his last three games twenty eight and sixteen
tonight and the game winning shot when you know he's
the only guy taking this shot, right. This is the
Lakers and a bunch of guys tonight, and they found
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a way to win this game in Minnesota. Lakers had
no business winning this game. I thought you were gonna
give some love to La Rovia. He was mentioned in there.
I'm like a hi you saying seven points tonight. Come on,
he'd lost the ball out of bound the final minute.
It happened, But what did he do when it mattered?
He made the play. You go back to the game
Monday night against Portland when Reeves went for forty one
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in a loss, and of course the fifty one point
game against Sacramento on Sunday, fifty one eleven rebounds, nine
assists as they beat the Kings one twenty seven to
one twenty these last three games, Austin Reeves has leveled
up to become an NBA star, where now you're saying okay,
instead of who's gonna be the number two with Luca
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when he gets back and Lebron winds up moving on,
It's like, I think we have our two.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
But he can go back to those first two games.
He was eighteen of thirty one in those three games
he was He's been really good.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
He is, like I said, he has leveled up this
year so far, but those last three games, like Austin
Reeves has gone from he's a if he's your third
best player, that's nice, it's but yeah, now it's hey,
Reeves is a Scottie Pippen to Luca's Michael Jordan, Like
he has become that kind the player he's now. It
took him a little bit, right, it took him a
little bit, like twenty seven. But still, okay, he's got
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five six, you know, maybe six good years left to
you know, in his prime to continue to be this
kind of player. But he has leveled up in mensa.
When you can win games by yourself when every everybody
else is out, that's always the biggest signe. Okay, this
guy's a star because he can do it when everybody
else is injured. Okay, Right, We've watched Lebron do it
for years and years with the Cavaliers and the other
teams when players are injured or he's not playing on
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a great team, you know, dragging the Cavs to the
finals with a really bad supporting cast.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
You've seen Luca do it with the Mavericks when they
just had a bunch of guys for a few year
run there in Dallas. But now you expect, okay, lucas
a guy that can do that. But now you know
Austin Reeves guy that can do it now? Can he
do it forever? Probably not, but to be. But I'm
not saying he's gonna take over as a one. But
now the Lakers have found there too. This is gonna
be Luca and Austin Reeves it now. I wonder how's
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Lebron Gonda have fit in when he comes back, and
it's been Hey, this is the Luca and Austin show now,
and you got to find your way in here, Lebron,
because Austin Reeves is a lot younger, we're paying them
less money. He's gonna be here. He's really bleeping good man.
Good luck stopping this tandem in the back court of
Luca and Austin Reeves. I mean, we would be sitting
here in a couple of weeks going, hey, the Lakers
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are the best backcourt in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Is this something?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
The best backcourt in the NBA? And now Lebron coming
in trying to come back, thinking, Hey, these first eight
or ten games, the Lakers are gonna struggle, They're not
gonna win. I'm gonna come back and say the team
and people will see how valuable I am. Now he
might come back and it's hey, dude, so listen, we
want to make sure Austin gets his shots. Who want
to make sure, you know, pick your spots here a
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little bit, and all of a sudden he's even one
more down the pecking order, Like all of a sudden
he said, of hey, I'm Luca's one a now maybe now,
maybe he's gonna wind up coming back and being the three,
the number three guy with the Lakers. When it happens,
think about not just because all of a sudden, I'm
stepping on Lebron and saying, oh, he's back. But you
know they want to move on without him.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
You know they do.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
You know he will. They're going to take every opportunity
they can to point this team forward, saying okay, we
are Luca and Austin driven and Lebron. Yeah, maybe we
can get something out of this hip. Maybe we trade
you the deadline if the Cavaliers aren't winning, you want
to go back there for a year. We can figure
something out with trade wise. But now you wonder, what's
what kind of team is Lebron James coming back to
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When you perform and Austin Reeves has performed like this
without Luka Doncic, this is incredible what he's done. Yeah,
no question about it.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
It's still a fourteen point loss to Portland mixed in there,
but three and two overall fifty seven point three percent
shooting for Reeves.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I took on bridge to you just going straight to
Pip and Jordan.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
It's like, really, you couldn't go to a lesser accomplished
duo that had some good runs okay, but didn't win
a damn thing.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Jalen Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I mean, I can't do that. Man to Jay, one
of these guys pouting no, no, okay, wait to Jalen and Giannis.
When the next get Yannis in a couple, I would
be Jaalen Janka series. What happens if you take his headband?
He loses all his powers. We recognize him, you would
know he was rips off.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
It's like he's getting signals into someone's working a joystick
with him.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Find it waiting to get Alex Caruso back, and suddenly
two fifths of your starting lineup is wearing headbands. That'd
be good. I could get on board that, yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Because a lot of people in Lakerville are still mad
Alex Crusoe is.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Not a member of their squad.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
But all of that to say, it's been a fun
first five games and having a guy emerged like this,
and obviously I joke about Laravi. It's a it's a
great big first step for him, their first round pick
this year, but they can get him to start playing
a little bit with consistency. Hasn't had huge minutes most
most of this early run, but he raised an eyebrown
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going all right, youth movement to your whole Lebron thing.
You know a lot of predictions that he'll never play
for them again, which I think is fun because that
would really accelerate the timeline. Don't think it happens quite
that fast, but we have no idea how fast Luca's
getting back either. There was some speculation about even game one,
before the finger injury, groin injury, et cetera, that they
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were gonna have to monitor and maybe limit his minutes
a bit for a while. So for Austin reeves a
chance to step into the spotlight here, and he's certainly
done so through five games, averaging thirty five point eight
points per game. Not exactly how you would have drawn
it up. It's kind of like the football equivalent of well,
there's Drake Mayin, Daniel Jones atop your leaderboard.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
No, no, no, you didn't see that coming.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
You had hope for both of them in their respective
positions for this year, but certainly not to that level
of greatness. But this game was fun on his hell,
especially an animated Anthony Edwards just watching the action go
down because East sidelined with a hamstring injury, but just
marveling the little cutaways we talked about, sour and the
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doom look on Sandy Coche facts his face all night.
Anthony Edward was just loving what he was seeing on
either side. Like everybody, I was like, wow, like normally
your stone face to a big shot by the party,
he was just like sure, okay, kid, the guy who's
probably a half a year younger than him. But all
of that, uh, it's made for a little extra excitement
(26:21):
and some positivity in now like.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Well, like yeah, and Los Angeles needs something after the
way the World Series is going. But just you know,
think back for a second to the beginning of Insanity,
right when Jeremy Lynn shows up at the Knicks and
had that big stretch that we cand he had the
big stretch because Carmelo Anthony was hurt and it was Okay,
how are the Lakers going to how are the next
how are the Lakers? How are the Knicks gonna be
(26:44):
able to navigate? And all of a sudden, Jeremy Lynn
is true and linsanity takes over and he has this
you know, three week run. And I remember mellow before
he came. When he was coming back, like was getting
questions from the media like, hey, how are you gonna
fit into the Knicks offense now? And He's like, how
do I fit in? This was my bleeping t were
you're talking about how I'm gonna fit in? Like, but
that's how quick it changes? Well, it was like he
(27:05):
was how quick it change? He was in the news
today right because of the load management stuff. We'll get
to the Jordan comments as we.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Go on, but they were asking him about a load
manage and he goes, wait me, wait what, like what.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Are you talking? But this is this is not just
to say that again, It's not just to say that
all Lebron coming back is gonna wind yet everybody's just
sick of Lebron in Austin reaves as a shiny new toy.
But it's the drama going into it because I've said
from the beginning.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I really, it's hard for me to see Lebron taking
the court for the Lakers. How is he gonna do
this when they have been at odds for the past
few months since the season ended. It's been Lebron daring
them to try to trade him or buy him out,
and it's been the Lakers daring Lebron to ask for
a biout or a trade. And they've been upping the
anty with each other, whether it's Lebron working out at
all these different facilities and the Lakers just continuing to
(27:54):
shower praise on Luca. You've seen they've been fighting, right,
You know that they're at odds. So both sides want
to move on. Both sides want to win the breakup, right.
Lebron doesn't want to move on unless he knows I'm
going somewhere where I can say, hey, blank you Lakers,
I'm winning a championship. The Lakers don't want to move
on from Lebron unless they're absolutely sure, Hey, the post
Lebron era is going to be a good one now.
(28:16):
Getting Luca obviously accelerated that, But moving on from Lebron
right now, Boy, it was kind of tough. It's kind
of because he's the number. He's going to be the
one a to Luca. But you see Austin Reeves and
he and Luca have hit, you know, they hit the
ground running to start the season. And now doing this
without Luca Austin. When you have a guy that's become
(28:37):
a superstar like that, and that's how it happens. It's
not where you become a star over a course, for
you become a superstar like that, right, Wemby has become
the best player in the NBA like that to start
this season, all of a sudden boom. But that's Wenby,
but before it goes before his illness and the ailment
of last year. I mean, that was a guy that
we were already putting into that elite right right. But
(28:58):
when I said you know what I mean, player in
the NBA by the middle point of this year, he's
accelerated that timeline because he's jumped out, ready to go.
The fact that Austin Reeves has jumped out like this
tells the Lakers, hey, we can move on past Lebron
James era much easier than we thought we even a
week ago, because look at what Austin Reeves can do.
Look at how dynamite these two guys have been when
(29:19):
they were the backcourt together.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Yeah, I still think in the end, Lebron James wasn't
gonna get the Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
How should I say?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
He's not winning the popularity contest, winning the breakup, and
he may go to a place where he could ultimately win.
But you know, he made what I'm never walking away
from fifty three million dollars. That's a tax bracket. I'll
never know. But he had the opportunity to go and
find the marketplace this offseason. Right could have just said, hey,
it was a good run, I'm out. But you know,
(29:48):
pride also screws with you a little bit, like, well,
you don't think I'm still that guy and all the
heaping of praise, Luca might be a guy that needs that. Clearly,
you have two guys that need that verb hug on
a great base. Hopefully Austin Reeves has a little thicker skin.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Exit outbout a Fresco exit swollen down The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon time how to
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But someone who's been called the Austin Reeves of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
I'll take that compliment tonight because he comes in every
night wearing a headband. It's Isaac Lowencron. I you know,
I'd previously been known as the Eldridge Rickasner of Fox
Sports Radio. So I am moving up in the world,
as are the Toronto Blue Jays, one victory away from
the World's championship after a six to one triumph over
(30:39):
the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game five of the World Series.
For three games to leave the story, Toronto starting pitcher
Trey Ya Savage, he said, a World Series rookie record
with twelve strikeouts in seven innings for the winning allowed
one run on two hits with no walks. Mookie Bets
of the Dodgers tonight zero for four with two strikeouts.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I don't want to speak to anybody else but for
me personally, I've just been terrible.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
You've been terrible, and.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
There's no I wish it was from.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Lack of effort, I really do, but it's not.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
So Yeah, I don't have any.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Answers to this.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Offensively, David Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Junior let off the
game with back to back home runs for Toronto. First
time that's ever happened in seven hundred and five all
time World Series games. We actually have a late breaking
story in college football. The Los Angeles Times reported a
short time ago that the city of Pasadena and the
Rose Bowl Operating Company filed a lawsuit on Wednesday night
(31:36):
to force UCLA to honor its lease agreement to play
its home games at the Rose Bowl through twenty forty four.
The lawsuit accuses UCLA of quote unequivocally expressing its intent
to abandon the Rose Bowl and relocate to Sofi Stadium
in Inglewood, unquote. NBA Wednesday night, John Moran's nine foot
(31:58):
runner with seven point six to play gave the Memphis
Grizzlies a one fourteen one thirteen triumph at Phoenix, and
the four mentioned Austin Reeves at a twelve foot runner
at the buzzer to give the Los Angeles Lakers a
one sixteen one fifteen victory at Minnesota, and fellas I
swear I'm not making this up. That has inspired a
new magic. Johnson tweets, I don't say anyth We're gonna
(32:21):
play the game. Don't look okay, okay, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Say, that's what Eldred Riquez used to get as a
member of the Presto ice Cream Kings in the Philippines.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Won't he's the guy who puts the low in low
and krawn.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I spoil the tweets.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
I will just read a comment by at Jacob seven
eight six six oh six four. That's Durant, Kevin Durant,
which read in reply to magic quote, thanks captain obvious,
go make some green tea or something and go to
bed unquote back.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
To you, now, I do have one serious question for you,
back to the UCLA story, is there also a stipulation
at as to the length of Jerry Newheisel's hair that
he can't be below a search I mean, because he's
gotta have the stylish hair. If he's going to be
on the sideline, guy's gotta be that.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
It turned out that that was the only item that
the two parties were able to agree.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Okay, good, so they are all right.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
So I didn't say they would upgrade the electrical so
to make sure that he can keep his hair nice
and fetal.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Oh good, good, Joe.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
They can apply it and plug it up.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Appliances and apparatus apparatuses uh to keep it looking all fresh.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
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tonight the best way we know how, at the greatest
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(34:19):
and Mike Fox? Why is Magic Johnson?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
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Speaker 1 (34:32):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios, and nobody made
bigger headlines earlier today than Magic Johnson, Laker legend. Do
I think owns a part of every sports team in
Los Angeles, including USC and UCLA. He may own part
(34:54):
of Twitter. He uh had a tweet earlier today that
now has over nine million views where he wanted to
make sure people knew that, hey, Game five of the
World Series, whoever wins Game five will be in the
driver's seat for the series. You know, really big deal.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Yeah, but you don't what it really helped if he'd
mentioned that it was on Fox. You can watch this
with the series being two too, Game five is very important.
Whichever team wins takes control of the series, and Magic
Johnson got a lot of bad pub on social media
to go, wow, thanks Captain. Abby's all this, But this
is the.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Night that the Magic Johnson Twitter game goes global because
now people understand, Oh this is how Magic Johnson tweets. Okay,
I got it. So to celebrate this momentous event, we play.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
And now it's.
Speaker 7 (35:47):
The Magic Johnson Twitter game, the greatest game in history
of radio, no more obvious and vanilla tweeter than Magic Johnson,
as you have seen, made big news today.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
So we play the Magic Johnson Twitter game. I give
you a tweet. Your job is simply to tell me
if it's a magic Johnson tweet or made up by me. Yes.
The harder you think about it, the more difficult the
game gets. Playing playing as myself, Mike Harmon, Isaac Lohencron,
Justin Frossberg, Alex Tyshirt.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Maybe let's go? All right now? Magic tweeting about a
lot of things. And I got the World Series and
the big game winner by Austin Reeves for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I shagged him, brought in baby.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yeah, Jason, don't forget. He's got LAFC too, a LAFC. Yes,
got them all. Austin Reeves hit the game winning shot
and ended up with twenty eight points and sixteen assists.
Oh is that a magic Johnson tweet?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Well, I mean it would allow him to recover quickly
from the Dodgers loss. Sure, sure, now too rapid fire,
I say no, okay, Isaac Lohancron.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I'm gonna say a negatory really wow? Okay? All right? Frostburg.
Did somebody send him the box score curse? There's no
way he watched that. He might he might have figured
out the internet once, Hey, once, Magic Johnson figures out
the Internet. It's like sky Neet becoming aware and terminator.
You think you can figure out picture and picture? I
(37:22):
don't know. Do you think you'd figure out just clicking
on the Twitter icon on his phone and then typing
it out? Do you think again?
Speaker 5 (37:29):
I'm gonna say, I mean that sounds like a magic
Johnson tweet.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Yeah, okay, ty Shirt, you think you're smart, Jason m h.
I'm here to tell you you are not, because that
is a tweet.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
That is a magic job tweet. Yeah really, buddy, Yeah, buddy,
did not see that coming. Austin, thank you for making
me feel a little bit better about my Dodgers loss.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Oh yeah, dirt Bay magic, I was the key john
heard that tweet, Austin, thank you for making me feel
better after my Dodgers lost. Is that a magic Johnson tweet?
He gets the man and the may in there. But
we talked about that earlier, so I think that might
be a red herring. So I'm gonna say no, red hera.
(38:23):
That's a red herring.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Harry, you're saying no, Okay, I say no, Al Ray,
you're a wizard array all.
Speaker 8 (38:29):
Right, I'm gonna say a yeah, Frostburg.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
If that is a magic Johnson tweet, yeah, he should
sell his portion of the Dodgers. Okay, but I've got
a feeling it is all right, Alex, you're a wizard, Arry,
I think it is.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
That is.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
A magic tweet. Yeah, he's tweeting up a storm tonight, Austin,
thank you for making me feel a little better after
my Dodgers lost. It's a much different dopamine rush. I'm
gonna keep tweeting like a voul. Game five didn't go
our way, but the series isn't over. Is that a
(39:20):
magic Johnson tweet? Game five didn't go our way? But
the series isn't over. Sure, Okay, why not? All right? Ilo?
Speaker 8 (39:30):
No, but it could be a tweet tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
It could be a tweet after game six. Okay, what
do you got Justin? Oh, I don't know. I'm gonna
say maybe. Let me say, oh wow, right in the
middle of that ride on Matt Alex, I don't know.
We could say maybe Alex p ty shirt you kissing?
Maybe I'll let I'm alone. I just do to say
(39:57):
maybe tonight because the Dodgers lost, So I'm giving him
He's okay. It made him feel better. To say, maybe, yeah,
you fight like a woman. Game five didn't go our way,
but the series isn't over yet. Is that a magic
Johnson tweet?
Speaker 2 (40:09):
I wanted to cut it off and make gamole.
Speaker 5 (40:13):
Yes, that is not Johnson tweet. If I would go
against his his tweet from yesterday, that's.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Why the more you think about this game, the more
they don't kill you. No, it's true. All right, last one?
You guys right, yeah, yeah, you guys ready? Sure, Austin,
what a shot? Is that a magic Johnson tweet? No,
it can't be. Three exclamation points after show? Oh no, Austin,
(40:45):
what a shot? Three exclamation points? Is that a magic Johnson?
Speaker 3 (40:50):
I'm gonna say, I'm gonna stick to know and I'm
gonna hate myself for it.
Speaker 8 (40:55):
I say no to normal.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Wow. Okay, all right, but he had exclamation exclamations. Okay, justin,
what do you got? Yeah, he's not a game caster guy.
He's a box score guy. So no, okay, he is
a box score guy. All right, Alex, what do you think?
Absolutely nots that is, in fact not a magic Johnson tweet.
(41:26):
We celebrate the man for the greatness on social media
that he is. Another edition of the Magic Johnson today.
That is he's big today. Well you had the Dodgers
of the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Or was he just feeling it because he got nine
nine million views, so he decided to lean into the big.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Maybe we have an LAFC Twitter game coming up next hour. Yeah,
I mean I I just like he's in the bit,
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Game five of the World Series, Treya Savage a huge game,
first rookie since nineteen forty nine to have ten strikeouts
in a World Series game. He dominates the Dodgers lineup
(01:09):
the Blue Jays win the last two games of the series.
Now to go back to Toronto up three games to two,
now really quick, A great moment right now. We just
happen to see in some of the local postgame here
Fox Sports Radio, because now you know, it's the end
and we're seeing it Clayton Kershaw and it looks like
(01:30):
his entire family and I mean like there's a lot
of people out there in Kershaw, Jerseys enjoying being on
the field one more time because he's played his last
game at Dodger Stadium, retiring after this year. And again
I told you last night, I don't think we see
him again in the series. He had his legacy, he
had the mercer legacy is secure. He had his legacy
(01:51):
securing situation when he had the big out at the
end in the you know, in the ninth inning of
Game three. And now to see him, you know, knowing
well that this is kind of it, that's going to
be it, and him and his family out on the
field right now while postgame is going on and joining
Dodger Stadium and the field one last time.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, I thought you were going to refer to the
out outdoors as fans were leaving. There were a couple
of guys that walked by. They had clearly had their
way with those beer bats. They looked like they were
carrying a full rack worth.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, yeah, beer bats.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
They were having a must have had a hard nine. Yes,
well they just went and picked up all the ones
people left behind, by the way, that's what I thought
you were referred. Instead, you get the you know, the
family that we go back to his wife and the
stands during that appearance, right, it was like all the
shots and cutaways of Sandy Kofax we got today. It's
like for one out. I think they went to Ellen
(02:47):
like nine times. It tears are streaming down her face
as it finishes. But it's I mean, god, it's been
looking at all the years, two thousand and eight, Yeah,
and this is it. I mean, maybe we see Clayton
Kershaw one more time. Maybe probably we don't, but you
could tell right now, you know, enjoying now that they've
left the field in the last minute or two, but
(03:07):
you saw him out there just having fun. Yeah, last
time we're gonna be out here like this is it?
Like it's not gonna happen again. Sure, I'm ready time
Clayton Kershaw wants to go on the field after the
game to allow him to but it's you know, while
he's playing, it's happening.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
This is it.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Man, you start talking about old timer's day. Yeah, come
throw out a first pitch.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, just think about that for Kershaw comes
at you fast. He's that a hell of a run though.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I mean even this year he was eleven and two
e er a still sub three five, got that big
out in Game three, all sorts of pomp and circumstance
and decorated. And I know there are those detractors out
there that were looking for the other shoe to drop.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It didn't. Now you're ready for my Game five World
Series playoff hot tape. I can't wait. You ready for this?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Okay go now, no matter how you slice it up,
Vladimir Guerrero Junior, greater than Show. Hey, O Tani, greater
than show I got. I'm gonna I'm gonna lay it
out for you. I'm gonna lay it out for you. Now.
We've talked about the impact and this is not anything,
This is not This is not an antiotanic thing more,
(04:14):
it's a pro lad Junior thinger. We talked abou this
with John.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I mean, there's only winners and losers here, So if
you're if you're not first, just like in Cars one
winner forty three losers.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
We've talked about vladd Junior's impact as a leader. Right
after Game three, he waited for every one of his
teammates to come into the locker room after Freddie Freeman's
walk off and said, it's not over. You win four games,
not to stick with it, stick with it. Told every
one of his teammates that, and when you hit a
home run every game, okay, you back it up. Players
are gonna follow you. So his impact as a leader
(04:48):
has been incredible. And we've talked about the Dodgers not
having that guy just because well they're superstars, they're likable,
they're they're people. Everybody respects them. It's hard to make
them the evil Empire. But at the same time, you
need that one guy that's gonna say, hey, I'm gonna
say what what no one else is saying. You guys
(05:10):
have been playing like crap. We've been swinging the bats
like crap. This has been unacceptable and the Dodgers don't
have that guy. But vlad Junior has been that guy
for the Blue Jays, and clearly that his teammates have
talked about how he's inspired them with his play and
his you know, hey, his leadership. Don't give up. But
you want to look at the playoffs, now, Okay, Vlad
(05:33):
Junior has been over a better than show Heyo Tani.
Vlad Junior's last ten games. Okay, so you're talking about
midway part of the ALCS into the World Series, like
so most of the ALCS D of the World Series.
He is hitting four fifty two. He is nineteen for
forty two, five home runs, thirteen runs scored, has been
(05:54):
walked seven times. He has been absolutely unstoppable, and basically
he's been unstoppable since the playoffs started. But just to
go back the last ten games, right, just say what
what what have you been doing lately? He's got at least
one hit in every game and he is hitting four
fifty two. He has been absolutely lights out? All right,
(06:15):
vladis boy? Now is he? Okay? Now we'll go We'll
go to the next part of it. And I realize
I'm kind of cherry picking the stats here for a second,
but just to illustrate, show, hey, Otani take out Game four,
against the Brewers and take out Game three against the
Blue Jays. Now, it's hard to say that you're talking
(06:37):
about the two greatest postseason games a player has had
in the history of the sport, right, because that's what
it is.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Otani six innings, pitch, ten strikeouts, three home runs against
the Brewers, on base nine times, two home runs, two doubles.
First guy with four extra base hits in a World
Series game since nineteen oh six. Right, So I realize
I'm saying, but take out these two games, Okay, just
take out these two games. For the playoffs. Otani is
(07:04):
eight for fifty three. He is hitting one sixty three,
He has scored six runs. He has struck out twenty
two times in these fifty three at bats. Right, this
has not been We talk about Mooki Betts struggling, understandable
because hey, when Mooki Bets goes the lake, the Laker,
the Dodger lineup seems to go much better because he
(07:26):
just has that effect on it. But Shoe Otani outside
of those two games has not been good man like.
Not only is he not only is he not getting
on bait, not only is he not hitting the ball,
he's striking out at an alarming rate. He's striking out
nearly in half is at bats. You see him lunging
for pitches. It's really difficult to see and it's and
it's hard to fathom because, well, you think Otani in
(07:48):
these two games, but that's covering up the playoffs that
he has had that have been tons of opers. I mean,
his other get eight hits in all, and and two
of his home runs. He got three home runs overall,
two of them in that first game against the Reds
right where they you know, the Reds were completely outclass.
So you're talking about a playoff series of two games
against the Reds. The next series against the Phillies, didn't
(08:10):
really hit against the Brewers, had the one game where
he hit here in the World Series, had one game
where he hit like, that's not gonna do it for you, man.
And you could talk about Betts as we have in
the other guys in the lineup not hitting. But this
is Otani outside of those two games. Not like you
add those two games, the stats look amazing. He'sn't like
two fifty when you add in the rest of those stats.
But that certainly amps up his postseason. But every other game.
(08:34):
Take out those two games, Otani's sitting one sixty three
with twenty two strikeouts and fifty three at bats.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
He is precisely at two fifty as we sit here,
fifteen of sixty overall in the postseason. But you know,
on balls batted in play batting average on balls in
play three eighty five. Problem is he struck out twenty
two of that. That's the all thing. You got to
go back to the strikeouts.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
The other thing you go into Vladimir Guerrero.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And this one caught me off a little bit because
you know, we've talked about the batting average and obviously
the pension for hitting the big home run of late.
Here he's walked twice as many times as he struck
out in the playoffs, ten walks. He got his fifth
strikeout tonight, and that's how dialed in he's been. And
(09:21):
it speaks to the overall Blue Jays idea of hey,
we're not going down swinging, We're not gonna go down looking.
We're putting the ball in play right, put pressure on opponents.
We talk about it and every other sport that you
and I break down here on Fox Sports Radio. Certainly
something we've preached to our daughters and their teammates in
(09:42):
every sport that they've played, you with soccer and softball,
with me with the soccer world. For my kid, like
she's just yelling at her forde put the ball on net,
make the goalie do something right and get them off
the mark. Same thing here. We've watched how the defense
the Dodgers have been put off. But in this one
to one comparison, yeah, we've got some heroics and those
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are two games you'll never forget and they help propel
the Dodgers to where they are. Can't take that away.
But the overall arch, as we talked about with Jumpalmrosi
last hour, is game to game it's not been pretty. Right,
you had those five walks, well, that's some half his
walk total during these playoffs was intentional walks. In that
(10:27):
Game three, he's not having graded bats. He's pulling off
and trying to pull everything right. That hit that he
had in the home run the other night, right, that
was his first opposite field hit since what September twentieth
or something. That was a full month of baseball where
you're and think about the strikeouts of you know, trying
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to overcorrect and yank down the right field foul foul line.
It's just been a difficult slog and you're not protected,
right because Mookie Bets has been that bad, which is
why they could do the walk, but you don't have
to pitch him, which means he gets anxious, Yeah, because
he wants to do something because he knows Mookie's going
poorly behind him. So it it becomes this compounded effect.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, it's it's real. It's it's the Dodger lineup, everybody
not hitting at the same time. It's two games from
Otani covering up everything else. It's the Dodger pitching in
the NLCS covering up everyone else. But like when when
when you say, okay, who's making this team?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Go?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The top three guys you're gonna say are Otani, Bets,
and Freeman, Right, those are your three guys, and Mookie
Bets has been lost. He's been lost for a long time.
They tried to drop I mean, I don't know dropping
him to third tonight was the right call, Like like, okay,
I get you have him second, but you're dropping him
to third really like that's gonna help?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Like, but that was that was the thing when I
when I signed it out and now it sos like
he's gonna be in the sixth right and then he's third,
Like is that is that wrong?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Like that we want to drop him to fifth to
bat in front of month see, Like okay, but you're
dropping him to third, like you if you don't want
him up when he's hitting second, you want Hi up
when he's hitting third, Like is it too much pressure?
Hitting behind o Toddley? He's a pro man, Mookie's been
in the league a while, he's a bro.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
But that's the biggest thing, right, It's what I've always
argued here with you and all my time here at
Fox Sports Radio and being a blathering idiot. Immediate overall
is you know, if you're worried about losing your quarterback,
right to mix sports for a second, and you know,
like a benching or change of philosophy or whatever, you're
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going to lose him. That's not your guy, because the
whole thing is about mental resolve of getting back up
for the next at bat, taking a sad getting back up,
throwing a pick, getting back in the huddle like all that.
If that's going to force a guy to be lost,
then you've already lost you've already picked the wrong guy.
And Mookie Betts has too long a track record, and
(12:51):
I think he's too prideful to suddenly go into some
shell because he gets dropped in a batting order. He's
already in a bad funk, right, hitting in another part
of the order. Isn't gonna do it because he knows
he can still help you make plays in the field.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
If I thought for a second that there would be
other batters who would step up, it wouldn't be that
big a deal. But clear, since they got Otani, they
have been Otani and bets Driven. Right, you've been Otani.
If Freddy's been great, right, Freddie Freeman's been awesome to
walkoffs in the World Series, he's been great. But you're
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Otani and Bets driven. You are top heavy the top
of that lineup. And we know Bets hasn't been good.
And Otani again, outside of those two games, he's had
a bad play. He still walks a lot. And that's
the thing, and that's what maybe makes you think, Okay,
he's having it that No, yeah, he walks a lot,
that's fine, but he's not hitting right. He's not hitting again.
Twenty two strikeouts in fifty three at bats. I mean,
(13:50):
this is this is this doesn't work, man. I mean,
Otani's had the two best games in playoff history. But
I think if you'd rather have mister consistent, which is
who has been great since the playoffs began, and he's
one to two hits every game, scoring a run every game,
hitting a home run almost every game. Vlad Junior has
been better than Shoeo Tani in the playoffs in the world,
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no matter how you cut it up, and then better
then just you know, overall philosophy, right of how the
team as they're playing Guerrero batting second, you got good
at bats in front of him. And that's one of
the things with Otani as well, right because out of
that ninth spot you've got nothing either. So as it wraps.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
From one inning, you know, as the inning goes on,
I mean, cal was another row for we already seen
Pahz who's somehow I don't I don't know what happened
to his bat. I mean, I've seen a lot of
jokes of co opting Joe bu for the Dodgers hitters
and putting that jersey on and trying to inspire something
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out of there. But It's It's been a tough slog,
no question about it, but the Heroics make up for
it in parts. And here we sit with two games
left potentially in this season. But all of it just
gamed the game. Very frustrating to watch, you know, as
a baseball fan looking for, you know, consistency and fluidity.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
It certainly has not been Dodger baseball exit. How about
a Fresco exit swallen' Dome. We have more in the
World Series coming up next, but straight ahead after tonight,
have we just seen the birth of a new NBA superstar?
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we get off the air. We got more baseball coming
up in a few minutes. We look back at a
shocking turn of events the last couple of days and
have seen the Blue Jays take a three games a
two lead in the World Series. But I'm pretty sure
after what we just saw is the birth of a
new superstar in the NBA. It's not Cooper Flag. The
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Knicks were off tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Why's it got to be about the Knicks' You think
we already have established star. I mean, Dallas has bench
scored sixty. We already have established I was great.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
But after hitting this game winner tonight, this player has
graduated from hey, really good support player. Potentially could be
a number three guy on a team. Maybe if you
need to flip him to another team for a better
player as part of a trade, he could do that.
But no, the last three nights he has become an
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NBA star. La Rabia gets it. Rules now with five,
with four, we're three Austin down the Mids to win
the game, to win the game. What the winner they
are doing?
Speaker 7 (18:30):
What r does gets into the paint and all that
celebration that the Timberwolves are born.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Six seconds ago, I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Not doing that. Yeah, they didn't really celebrate.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Now. It was an eight point Laker lead over the
Timberwolves on the road in Minnesota with about two minutes
left to go. Some missshots, some made shots, and the
t Wolves took the lead with about nine seconds left
and did do a lot of jumping around and yeah,
we got it, we got it, We got it. Austin
ree another great game for him, twenty eight points, sixteen rebounds.
(19:05):
You know he's taking the final shot. The Lakers have
played the last three games without Luca, who has sat out. Okay, now,
no Luca, no Lebron. The beginning of the season, not
exactly what the Lakers had in mind. We thought, Okay,
it's gonna be Luca's gonna stand up and take the
team and drag him around and say, okay, I'm gonna
keep us afloat until Lebron gets back, showing you that
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this is why I'm the present and future, and Lebron's
gonna be out after a year. But you had Austin
Reeves getting the lane for the leaner to win the
game tonight, his last three games twenty eight and sixteen
tonight and the game winning shot when you know he's
the only guy taking this shot, right. This is the
Lakers and a bunch of guys tonight, and they found
(19:47):
a way to win this game in Minnesota. Lakers had
no business winning this game. I thought you were gonna
give some love to La Rovia. He was mentioned in there.
I'm like a hi you saying seven points tonight. Come on,
he'd lost the ball out of bound the final minute.
It happened, But what did he do when it mattered?
He made the play. You go back to the game
Monday night against Portland when Reeves went for forty one
(20:11):
in a loss, and of course the fifty one point
game against Sacramento on Sunday, fifty one eleven rebounds, nine
assists as they beat the Kings one twenty seven to
one twenty these last three games, Austin Reeves has leveled
up to become an NBA star, where now you're saying okay,
instead of who's gonna be the number two with Luca
(20:33):
when he gets back and Lebron winds up moving on,
It's like, I think we have our two.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
But he can go back to those first two games.
He was eighteen of thirty one in those three games
he was He's been really good.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
He is, like I said, he has leveled up this
year so far, but those last three games, like Austin
Reeves has gone from he's a if he's your third
best player, that's nice, it's but yeah, now it's hey,
Reeves is a Scottie Pippen to Luca's Michael Jordan, Like
he has become that kind the player he's now. It
took him a little bit, right, it took him a
little bit, like twenty seven. But still, okay, he's got
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five six, you know, maybe six good years left to
you know, in his prime to continue to be this
kind of player. But he has leveled up in mensa.
When you can win games by yourself when every everybody
else is out, that's always the biggest signe. Okay, this
guy's a star because he can do it when everybody
else is injured. Okay, Right, We've watched Lebron do it
for years and years with the Cavaliers and the other
teams when players are injured or he's not playing on
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a great team, you know, dragging the Cavs to the
finals with a really bad supporting cast.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
You've seen Luca do it with the Mavericks when they
just had a bunch of guys for a few year
run there in Dallas. But now you expect, okay, lucas
a guy that can do that. But now you know
Austin Reeves guy that can do it now? Can he
do it forever? Probably not, but to be. But I'm
not saying he's gonna take over as a one. But
now the Lakers have found there too. This is gonna
be Luca and Austin Reeves it now. I wonder how's
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Lebron Gonda have fit in when he comes back, and
it's been Hey, this is the Luca and Austin show now,
and you got to find your way in here, Lebron,
because Austin Reeves is a lot younger, we're paying them
less money. He's gonna be here. He's really bleeping good man.
Good luck stopping this tandem in the back court of
Luca and Austin Reeves. I mean, we would be sitting
here in a couple of weeks going, hey, the Lakers
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are the best backcourt in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Is this something?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
The best backcourt in the NBA? And now Lebron coming
in trying to come back, thinking, Hey, these first eight
or ten games, the Lakers are gonna struggle, They're not
gonna win. I'm gonna come back and say the team
and people will see how valuable I am. Now he
might come back and it's hey, dude, so listen, we
want to make sure Austin gets his shots. Who want
to make sure, you know, pick your spots here a
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little bit, and all of a sudden he's even one
more down the pecking order, Like all of a sudden
he said, of hey, I'm Luca's one a now maybe now,
maybe he's gonna wind up coming back and being the three,
the number three guy with the Lakers. When it happens,
think about not just because all of a sudden, I'm
stepping on Lebron and saying, oh, he's back. But you
know they want to move on without him.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
You know they do.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
You know he will. They're going to take every opportunity
they can to point this team forward, saying okay, we
are Luca and Austin driven and Lebron. Yeah, maybe we
can get something out of this hip. Maybe we trade
you the deadline if the Cavaliers aren't winning, you want
to go back there for a year. We can figure
something out with trade wise. But now you wonder, what's
what kind of team is Lebron James coming back to
(23:21):
When you perform and Austin Reeves has performed like this
without Luka Doncic, this is incredible what he's done. Yeah,
no question about it.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
It's still a fourteen point loss to Portland mixed in there,
but three and two overall fifty seven point three percent
shooting for Reeves.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I took on bridge to you just going straight to
Pip and Jordan.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
It's like, really, you couldn't go to a lesser accomplished
duo that had some good runs okay, but didn't win
a damn thing.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Jalen Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I mean, I can't do that. Man to Jay, one
of these guys pouting no, no, okay, wait to Jalen and Giannis.
When the next get Yannis in a couple, I would
be Jaalen Janka series. What happens if you take his headband?
He loses all his powers. We recognize him, you would
know he was rips off.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
It's like he's getting signals into someone's working a joystick
with him.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Find it waiting to get Alex Caruso back, and suddenly
two fifths of your starting lineup is wearing headbands. That'd
be good. I could get on board that, yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Because a lot of people in Lakerville are still mad
Alex Crusoe is.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Not a member of their squad.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
But all of that to say, it's been a fun
first five games and having a guy emerged like this,
and obviously I joke about Laravi. It's a it's a
great big first step for him, their first round pick
this year, but they can get him to start playing
a little bit with consistency. Hasn't had huge minutes most
most of this early run, but he raised an eyebrown
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going all right, youth movement to your whole Lebron thing.
You know a lot of predictions that he'll never play
for them again, which I think is fun because that
would really accelerate the timeline. Don't think it happens quite
that fast, but we have no idea how fast Luca's
getting back either. There was some speculation about even game one,
before the finger injury, groin injury, et cetera, that they
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were gonna have to monitor and maybe limit his minutes
a bit for a while. So for Austin reeves a
chance to step into the spotlight here, and he's certainly
done so through five games, averaging thirty five point eight
points per game. Not exactly how you would have drawn
it up. It's kind of like the football equivalent of well,
there's Drake Mayin, Daniel Jones atop your leaderboard.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
No, no, no, you didn't see that coming.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
You had hope for both of them in their respective
positions for this year, but certainly not to that level
of greatness. But this game was fun on his hell,
especially an animated Anthony Edwards just watching the action go
down because East sidelined with a hamstring injury, but just
marveling the little cutaways we talked about, sour and the
(25:58):
doom look on Sandy Coche facts his face all night.
Anthony Edward was just loving what he was seeing on
either side. Like everybody, I was like, wow, like normally
your stone face to a big shot by the party,
he was just like sure, okay, kid, the guy who's
probably a half a year younger than him. But all
of that, uh, it's made for a little extra excitement
(26:21):
and some positivity in now like.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Well, like yeah, and Los Angeles needs something after the
way the World Series is going. But just you know,
think back for a second to the beginning of Insanity,
right when Jeremy Lynn shows up at the Knicks and
had that big stretch that we cand he had the
big stretch because Carmelo Anthony was hurt and it was Okay,
how are the Lakers going to how are the next
how are the Lakers? How are the Knicks gonna be
(26:44):
able to navigate? And all of a sudden, Jeremy Lynn
is true and linsanity takes over and he has this
you know, three week run. And I remember mellow before
he came. When he was coming back, like was getting
questions from the media like, hey, how are you gonna
fit into the Knicks offense now? And He's like, how
do I fit in? This was my bleeping t were
you're talking about how I'm gonna fit in? Like, but
that's how quick it changes? Well, it was like he
(27:05):
was how quick it change? He was in the news
today right because of the load management stuff. We'll get
to the Jordan comments as we.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Go on, but they were asking him about a load
manage and he goes, wait me, wait what, like what.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Are you talking? But this is this is not just
to say that again, It's not just to say that
all Lebron coming back is gonna wind yet everybody's just
sick of Lebron in Austin reaves as a shiny new toy.
But it's the drama going into it because I've said
from the beginning.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I really, it's hard for me to see Lebron taking
the court for the Lakers. How is he gonna do
this when they have been at odds for the past
few months since the season ended. It's been Lebron daring
them to try to trade him or buy him out,
and it's been the Lakers daring Lebron to ask for
a biout or a trade. And they've been upping the
anty with each other, whether it's Lebron working out at
all these different facilities and the Lakers just continuing to
(27:54):
shower praise on Luca. You've seen they've been fighting, right,
You know that they're at odds. So both sides want
to move on. Both sides want to win the breakup, right.
Lebron doesn't want to move on unless he knows I'm
going somewhere where I can say, hey, blank you Lakers,
I'm winning a championship. The Lakers don't want to move
on from Lebron unless they're absolutely sure, Hey, the post
Lebron era is going to be a good one now.
(28:16):
Getting Luca obviously accelerated that, But moving on from Lebron
right now, Boy, it was kind of tough. It's kind
of because he's the number. He's going to be the
one a to Luca. But you see Austin Reeves and
he and Luca have hit, you know, they hit the
ground running to start the season. And now doing this
without Luca Austin. When you have a guy that's become
(28:37):
a superstar like that, and that's how it happens. It's
not where you become a star over a course, for
you become a superstar like that, right, Wemby has become
the best player in the NBA like that to start
this season, all of a sudden boom. But that's Wenby,
but before it goes before his illness and the ailment
of last year. I mean, that was a guy that
we were already putting into that elite right right. But
(28:58):
when I said you know what I mean, player in
the NBA by the middle point of this year, he's
accelerated that timeline because he's jumped out, ready to go.
The fact that Austin Reeves has jumped out like this
tells the Lakers, hey, we can move on past Lebron
James era much easier than we thought we even a
week ago, because look at what Austin Reeves can do.
Look at how dynamite these two guys have been when
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they were the backcourt together.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Yeah, I still think in the end, Lebron James wasn't
gonna get the Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
How should I say?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
He's not winning the popularity contest, winning the breakup, and
he may go to a place where he could ultimately win.
But you know, he made what I'm never walking away
from fifty three million dollars. That's a tax bracket. I'll
never know. But he had the opportunity to go and
find the marketplace this offseason. Right could have just said, hey,
it was a good run, I'm out. But you know,
(29:48):
pride also screws with you a little bit, like, well,
you don't think I'm still that guy and all the
heaping of praise, Luca might be a guy that needs that. Clearly,
you have two guys that need that verb hug on
a great base. Hopefully Austin Reeves has a little thicker skin.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
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Speaker 8 (30:18):
I'll take that compliment tonight because he comes in every
night wearing a headband. It's Isaac Lowencron. I you know,
I'd previously been known as the Eldridge Rickasner of Fox
Sports Radio. So I am moving up in the world,
as are the Toronto Blue Jays, one victory away from
the World's championship after a six to one triumph over
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the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game five of the World Series.
For three games to leave the story, Toronto starting pitcher
Trey Ya Savage, he said, a World Series rookie record
with twelve strikeouts in seven innings for the winning allowed
one run on two hits with no walks. Mookie Bets
of the Dodgers tonight zero for four with two strikeouts.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I don't want to speak to anybody else but for
me personally, I've just been terrible.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
You've been terrible, and.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
There's no I wish it was from.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Lack of effort, I really do, but it's not.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
So Yeah, I don't have any.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Answers to this.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Offensively, David Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Junior let off the
game with back to back home runs for Toronto. First
time that's ever happened in seven hundred and five all
time World Series games. We actually have a late breaking
story in college football. The Los Angeles Times reported a
short time ago that the city of Pasadena and the
Rose Bowl Operating Company filed a lawsuit on Wednesday night
(31:36):
to force UCLA to honor its lease agreement to play
its home games at the Rose Bowl through twenty forty four.
The lawsuit accuses UCLA of quote unequivocally expressing its intent
to abandon the Rose Bowl and relocate to Sofi Stadium
in Inglewood, unquote. NBA Wednesday night, John Moran's nine foot
(31:58):
runner with seven point six to play gave the Memphis
Grizzlies a one fourteen one thirteen triumph at Phoenix, and
the four mentioned Austin Reeves at a twelve foot runner
at the buzzer to give the Los Angeles Lakers a
one sixteen one fifteen victory at Minnesota, and fellas I
swear I'm not making this up. That has inspired a
new magic. Johnson tweets, I don't say anyth We're gonna
(32:21):
play the game. Don't look okay, okay, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Say, that's what Eldred Riquez used to get as a
member of the Presto ice Cream Kings in the Philippines.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Won't he's the guy who puts the low in low
and krawn.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I spoil the tweets.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
I will just read a comment by at Jacob seven
eight six six oh six four. That's Durant, Kevin Durant,
which read in reply to magic quote, thanks captain obvious,
go make some green tea or something and go to
bed unquote back.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
To you, now, I do have one serious question for you,
back to the UCLA story, is there also a stipulation
at as to the length of Jerry Newheisel's hair that
he can't be below a search I mean, because he's
gotta have the stylish hair. If he's going to be
on the sideline, guy's gotta be that.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
It turned out that that was the only item that
the two parties were able to agree.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Okay, good, so they are all right.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
So I didn't say they would upgrade the electrical so
to make sure that he can keep his hair nice
and fetal.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Oh good, good, Joe.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
They can apply it and plug it up.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Appliances and apparatus apparatuses uh to keep it looking all fresh.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
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The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios, and nobody made
bigger headlines earlier today than Magic Johnson, Laker legend. Do
I think owns a part of every sports team in
Los Angeles, including USC and UCLA. He may own part
(34:54):
of Twitter. He uh had a tweet earlier today that
now has over nine million views where he wanted to
make sure people knew that, hey, Game five of the
World Series, whoever wins Game five will be in the
driver's seat for the series. You know, really big deal.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Yeah, but you don't what it really helped if he'd
mentioned that it was on Fox. You can watch this
with the series being two too, Game five is very important.
Whichever team wins takes control of the series, and Magic
Johnson got a lot of bad pub on social media
to go, wow, thanks Captain. Abby's all this, But this
is the.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Night that the Magic Johnson Twitter game goes global because
now people understand, Oh this is how Magic Johnson tweets. Okay,
I got it. So to celebrate this momentous event, we play.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
And now it's.
Speaker 7 (35:47):
The Magic Johnson Twitter game, the greatest game in history
of radio, no more obvious and vanilla tweeter than Magic Johnson,
as you have seen, made big news today.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
So we play the Magic Johnson Twitter game. I give
you a tweet. Your job is simply to tell me
if it's a magic Johnson tweet or made up by me. Yes.
The harder you think about it, the more difficult the
game gets. Playing playing as myself, Mike Harmon, Isaac Lohencron,
Justin Frossberg, Alex Tyshirt.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Maybe let's go? All right now? Magic tweeting about a
lot of things. And I got the World Series and
the big game winner by Austin Reeves for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I shagged him, brought in baby.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yeah, Jason, don't forget. He's got LAFC too, a LAFC. Yes,
got them all. Austin Reeves hit the game winning shot
and ended up with twenty eight points and sixteen assists.
Oh is that a magic Johnson tweet?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Well, I mean it would allow him to recover quickly
from the Dodgers loss. Sure, sure, now too rapid fire,
I say no, okay, Isaac Lohancron.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I'm gonna say a negatory really wow? Okay? All right? Frostburg.
Did somebody send him the box score curse? There's no
way he watched that. He might he might have figured
out the internet once, Hey, once, Magic Johnson figures out
the Internet. It's like sky Neet becoming aware and terminator.
You think you can figure out picture and picture? I
(37:22):
don't know. Do you think you'd figure out just clicking
on the Twitter icon on his phone and then typing
it out? Do you think again?
Speaker 5 (37:29):
I'm gonna say, I mean that sounds like a magic
Johnson tweet.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Yeah, okay, ty Shirt, you think you're smart, Jason m h.
I'm here to tell you you are not, because that
is a tweet.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
That is a magic job tweet. Yeah really, buddy, Yeah, buddy,
did not see that coming. Austin, thank you for making
me feel a little bit better about my Dodgers loss.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Oh yeah, dirt Bay magic, I was the key john
heard that tweet, Austin, thank you for making me feel
better after my Dodgers lost. Is that a magic Johnson tweet?
He gets the man and the may in there. But
we talked about that earlier, so I think that might
be a red herring. So I'm gonna say no, red hera.
(38:23):
That's a red herring.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Harry, you're saying no, Okay, I say no, Al Ray,
you're a wizard array all.
Speaker 8 (38:29):
Right, I'm gonna say a yeah, Frostburg.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
If that is a magic Johnson tweet, yeah, he should
sell his portion of the Dodgers. Okay, but I've got
a feeling it is all right, Alex, you're a wizard, Arry,
I think it is.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
That is.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
A magic tweet. Yeah, he's tweeting up a storm tonight, Austin,
thank you for making me feel a little better after
my Dodgers lost. It's a much different dopamine rush. I'm
gonna keep tweeting like a voul. Game five didn't go
our way, but the series isn't over. Is that a
(39:20):
magic Johnson tweet? Game five didn't go our way? But
the series isn't over. Sure, Okay, why not? All right? Ilo?
Speaker 8 (39:30):
No, but it could be a tweet tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
It could be a tweet after game six. Okay, what
do you got Justin? Oh, I don't know. I'm gonna
say maybe. Let me say, oh wow, right in the
middle of that ride on Matt Alex, I don't know.
We could say maybe Alex p ty shirt you kissing?
Maybe I'll let I'm alone. I just do to say
(39:57):
maybe tonight because the Dodgers lost, So I'm giving him
He's okay. It made him feel better. To say, maybe, yeah,
you fight like a woman. Game five didn't go our way,
but the series isn't over yet. Is that a magic
Johnson tweet?
Speaker 2 (40:09):
I wanted to cut it off and make gamole.
Speaker 5 (40:13):
Yes, that is not Johnson tweet. If I would go
against his his tweet from yesterday, that's.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Why the more you think about this game, the more
they don't kill you. No, it's true. All right, last one?
You guys right, yeah, yeah, you guys ready? Sure, Austin,
what a shot? Is that a magic Johnson tweet? No,
it can't be. Three exclamation points after show? Oh no, Austin,
(40:45):
what a shot? Three exclamation points? Is that a magic Johnson?
Speaker 3 (40:50):
I'm gonna say, I'm gonna stick to know and I'm
gonna hate myself for it.
Speaker 8 (40:55):
I say no to normal.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Wow. Okay, all right, but he had exclamation exclamations. Okay, justin,
what do you got? Yeah, he's not a game caster guy.
He's a box score guy. So no, okay, he is
a box score guy. All right, Alex, what do you think?
Absolutely nots that is, in fact not a magic Johnson tweet.
(41:26):
We celebrate the man for the greatness on social media
that he is. Another edition of the Magic Johnson today.
That is he's big today. Well you had the Dodgers
of the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Or was he just feeling it because he got nine
nine million views, so he decided to lean into the big.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Maybe we have an LAFC Twitter game coming up next hour. Yeah,
I mean I I just like he's in the bit,
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