October 29, 2024 • 39 mins
Jason, Mike and MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi react to the Dodgers taking a commanding 3-0 World Series lead over the Yankees. And Jason explains why it's no surprise at all that the Yankees are down!
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
This time it counts well.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
The last nine World Series started out three zip have
all been sweeps. With that thought tomorrow at this time,
we could be talking about the Dodgers World Series champions
in twenty twenty four. They beat the Yankees four to
two to take a three.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Games to none lead.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
How, why?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
And sometimes is it just your year?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Joining us now in the hotline, nobody better MLB Network
Inside a reporter extraordinaire, a longtime friend of the show,
and a man who texted me today and said, I
underestimated the Lions offense when I saw it, I him
to win last week. It is John Paul Morosi, John Paul,
what's happening, Bud.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
I'm doing great, my friends. I underestimated the Lions office
and I underestimated the Dodgers entirely. Before this postseason began,
I thought that that first round series against the Podreys
would be tough for them. I actually thought the Podres
might win it. But shows you what I know, because
right now the Dodgers one win away, and the point
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was made. I think Aj Casselevell, my friend from MLB
dot Com, made this point that the Dodgers have not
been truly tested to the brink since the Padre series.
That was the team that has played them the toughest.
The Padres were really good, the Mets were I think
game as much as they could be, and the Yankees
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were still waiting for them to fully check into this series.
It just seems like Game one, and we can talk
about the momentum swing of Game one, and certainly that
easily could have been a Yankee victory. But the Dodgers
have been the better team clearly over the last three games.
And it's not as though this comes down to one
managerial decision or one swing of the bat from Freddie.
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The Dodgers have been the better team, and if we're
being honest, there's just not a whole lot of signs
on the field right now that it's about to swing
around in the Yankees favor John Paul.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
If I said to you, Okay, the Dodger up three
to nothing, you talked about what the Dodgers have done. Look,
they've been the better team top to bottom. As you said,
Freddie Freeman's ad a home run in every game. The
Dodger bullpen has been great. They're starting pitching has been great.
If I say, if I asked you the flip side, hey,
the Yankees are down three, what would be the biggest
thing you would point to for the Yankees?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I think it's it's number one. I will say number one.
It's the inability of the starting pitching to take them
deeper into games. And it's it's forced Aaron Boone to
make moves with his bullpen that he hasn't wanted to do.
I think that what had to happen after Game one,
and its heartbreaking as that conclusion was, is Rodin had
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to give them a quality start in Game two. Didn't
happen after falling down. Oh two, still a winnable series.
What has to happen tonight is Clark Schmid's got to
get them five or six quality innings. Didn't happen, So
there is momentum. I think that when a game is
like Game one, much like Game six and twenty eleven
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in the World Series, there there was some carryover, I
think to Game two, but just the starting pitching execution
just hasn't been there. Yamamoto way better in Game two
than Rode on tonight, Bueler way better than Schmid. I mean,
that's the story of the series, as much as as
much as we talk about the dramatics of Game one,
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as much as we talk about the struggles of Judge,
which are real, you know, and the Yankees have They've
not clicked offensively, and they've left themselves no margin for air,
and they've made errors, they've made defensive errors, they've put
guys on base, they just haven't played crisp fundamental baseball.
And then I'm surprised. I thought the Yankees were at
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least the equal of the Dodgers, and I think in
some ways I expect them to be better in this
World Series, but clearly they just have not been up
to the task. And then the Dodgers right now have
all the belief, all the momentum, and all the expectation
of winning this World Series.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You know, for me, John Paul, it comes down to
Mike and I talk to this a few minutes ago.
Is that I thought, Okay, this is going to be
Game three. The Yankees get to flush everything that happened
in LA and start over again. And then I watched
Clark Schmidt walk show, Hey Otani on four pitches, and Otani,
who clearly has a shoulder injury, and you gotta find
out what he's got. How can he swing the bat?
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If you saw the game go on, you could tell
he grimaced, he was not swinging the bat like he
normally was. And yet Schmidt was afraid of him, like, Hey,
here's otime in the middle of a heater, Like you
have to see what he's got and see if you
can overpower him.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Can he turn on a fastball? Is he going to
be late?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
What kind of swing does he have, and instead you
put him on with four pitches and Freddie Freeman's two
run home and it's the worst possible start you could
have for the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
That's exactly right. And and every starting pitcher in every
playoff series that's ever happened has had the chance to
set the tone for his team every single time. And
and to your point, the tone that was set tonight
was not at all the one the Yankees wanted. And
by the way, I did notice, and I'm sure Mike
did too. How you work the word grimace into that.
(05:56):
Sure the Mets, the Mets, the Mets are still alive.
And this in this kind versation to lead, But you're right,
And and I think not being able to locate to
show hey, I think foreshadowed the ability to not place
the ball to Freddy that he wanted. And it's interesting
the Dodgers, it seems they're so good and so deep
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that they've been able to operate effectively with with some
significant diminishment to a superstar player. Freeman was playing on
one leg for the first two weeks. Told he told
Ken Rosenthal tonight that the time off did him a
lot of good. He was able to get his ankle
to a better place and actually work on a swing more.
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And so we've now seen Freddie come back to being himself,
while Show is now playing hurt. But but it's they're
so deep that it almost that almost equals out. And
and Mookie is still great to ask her at a
big defensive play, Key k another clutch, RBI walks his
control everything. Edmunds had some big games. This is what
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it looks like when you win the World Series, exactly
what you're seeing right now, and these have not been
It's interesting that the Mets series was sort of weaving
back and forth between these lopsided scores. Obviously the Dodgers
won four of them, but this series it's been tighter.
Of course with the scores, but it felt as though
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the Dodgers, except for when it looked like the Yankees
might win Game one, they've really been in control, in
control of the series for what seems like twenty three
or twenty four of the twenty seven innings. I mean,
they've just been the better team. And it could be
two to one. You could say, maybe if the Yankees
had won Game one, but it wouldn't change the fact
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that the Dodgers have been decidedly the better baseball team
win this.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
World Series JP three nothing and owing to Jason's Mets.
Some wondering if Luis Rojas is a double agent because
in the fourth inning he sends Stanton rounding third and
Hernandez guns him down at the plate an active desperation.
I mean, it's only a three nothing game, it's the
four Well, you got potential for something, I know.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
And and to Oscar, he actually throws pretty well, and
that was a strike. I mean he threw his ninety
four miles an hour. I believe it was a stackass
number on it. I actually didn't have an issue with
it because you're you're trying just to get something going.
You're the Yankee rallies. I think Joe Davis made this
point during the broadcast. They just haven't even had that
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many threats. And when you don't have threats, you need
to just just get something on the board, try to
just change the look in the field of the game.
And who knows, if you know, if he scores there,
it changes that inning, and who knows what happens late
with Radugo if he still at the same kind of pitch,
if it's the tighter game. But they're they're just hoping
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right now. I mean that they're they're not they're not
stringing together good it's in good baseball. Can it change,
currec to change? Will it change? Probably not, based on
what we've seen so far, and it just seems like
based on the way things are going, it is a
matter of time before the Dodgers are are the World
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Series champions because they're just they're the better, deeper team.
And also, by the way, as a consequence of this,
as you start to think about how do you come
back if you can, well, who's got the more rested
bullpen right now? The Dodgers the Yankees that you know,
they've had to be creative the last two games. Of course,
the quartetes thing in Game one, they're just not you know,
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they've been competitive, they've actually the bullpen's did a pretty
good job of keeping games close, but they've never really
been able to use their bullpen the way they want
to because they've been playing from behind so much the
last two games because the starting pitchers just simply have
not been good enough for the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
John Paul Obviously, there's gonna be a lot of tension
on Aaron Judge and the series he is having or
is not at this point.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
He's hitting one forty. He has not hit it all.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Struck out again tonight, did walk tonight, So there is that,
but he just has not hitted all this series.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Is he being too aggressive? Are you not seeing good
at batsman?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
What?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
What do you see for Aaron Judge? Why he is
struggling so much?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
A couple of things there. I think that Aaron Judge
is someone who is susceptible to maybe getting out of
rhythm whenever he doesn't play for a while. It happened
at the start of the season, it happened before the
start of the series against the Royals. Is that bats
got a little bit better against Cleveland and now he's
back on the funk. He's clearly is feeling the pressure
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here of what of what is in front of him,
whether it's the contract, whether it's anything else. He can
handle pressure. He can he can handle the pressure. He
hits sixty two home runs with everybody in the world
following that home run pursuit. So the notion that he
can't handle pressure, I think is silly. He's he's not
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succeeding right now. I think because he maybe is pressing
a little bit. He doesn't seem to be on time
right now. And also he's facing a team that is
not making mistakes. They are pitching him very well. He
is getting I think a lot of the focus and
when it comes to I think the way they're approaching him,
they're realizing that often. I think there was almost the
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case when he walks is they don't have to give
him quality pitches right now to get him out. They
can have him chase, they can test them up high,
whatever it might be. You're not feeling like there's pressure
because when Judge is in this mode where he's swinging
a lot at pitches out of the zone, you don't
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feel like you have that pressure of putting in that
one little spot of the strike zone that is his
one cold zone. Now it's a much wider area. So
I just think he's not on time, he's getting pitched
really tough, the die are executing. It's all of the above.
He but I want to stress like he can handle pressure,
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like he handled he hit that massive home run against
the Guardians a week ago. He hit sixty two hovers
in another more than fifty this year, Like he's he
can handle it. He's just not He's not having success
right now. There's not much the Keys can do about it,
because for them to have a heartbeat in this series,
he's got a hit and right now he's not hitting.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Take it back to the to the other side. The
pitching for the Dodgers, Walker Bueller with another gem today
is postseason reputation takes another bounce up. And the happiest
guy in the world's got to be Dave Roberts. But
you know a guy that struggled when he came back
from injury JP and pitching a gem and an extended
innings once again, he did.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
And it's interesting he basically said on the postgame show
there with with Kevin Burkhard and company there in Fox
Sports that he basically said, and I'm paraps I'm paraphrasing here,
that he basically said, I was awful this year and
and during the regular season, and then you get to
the playoffs and a lot of that stuff melts away.
It's just about what you can do in front of them.
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And his first start against San Diego was certainly rocky.
He got torched early in that game, but settled in
and then a much better start against the Mets and
now another really great start I thought against the Yankees.
So he loves the big moment. He has had a
history of doing it, and it was interesting if you
listen to what he said after the game to Kevin,
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It's almost as though he's saying, I abandoned the strategy
of just throwing as hard as I could, and I
worked on becoming a better pitcher. He's basically saying, I'm
a better pitcher now, even though my sheer, velocity and
stuff aren't what they used to be. And I really
hope that a lot of young pitchers, older pitchers, pitching coaches, executives, agents, everybody,
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and we listen to that because there is wisdom and
what he said, you don't have to throw one hundred
and then blow out your elbow to have success in
this game. He is saying that after the ups and
downs of his career, he likes it better. He seems
to be more comfortable now operating at a little bit
of a slower speed with better movement, and the results
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tonight guys did speak for themselves.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
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talk to you as the series continues or ends, whichever
comes first.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
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Speaker 3 (14:47):
It's breakfast with John Palm Morosi. Thanks going, yeah, all right,
John Paul.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
The nice nice ring to it. I appreciate it. Guys,
Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
We'll talk to you buddy.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Thanks buddy.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
All right, There goes John Palm Moros, The Jason Smithzer
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got a big double shot for you. Why you shouldn't
be surprised the Yankees are down three zip in the
World Series and why there is so much pressure right
now on the Lakers to win this game over the
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Phoenix Suns And it doesn't have anything to do with
their standings or this Sea's NBA. Why there's so much
pressure on the Lakers to win this game that's next.
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Speaker 1 (15:48):
World Series, which the Dodgers lead three zip. Tell you
why you shouldn't be surprised the Yankees are down three zip?
But why is there a lot of pressure on the
Lakers to win this game against the Suns. Lakers are
down three eight seconds to go in regulation. They have
the ball, so they need a three to tie the
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game and send it to overtime.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
What would you know about pressure.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Now if the spread was three and a half?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
No, not about the spread, Not about the spread, not
about not about the Lakers continue to stay undefeated.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
No, this is much bigger than that.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I mean, that would be a big deal. You stay undefeated.
You put the the anger that everybody had about the
bron Browny thing. Sure further in the rearview mirror. Sure
if they were salty, all the folks that were calling
on behalf of friends and family members to get them jobs,
interviews and everything else. They were really out of sorts
about that.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
The reason there's a lot of pressure think about this
because I don't know that I add this as something.
I mean, this is a once in a lifetime thing.
Going back to Thursday night. Thursday night, every single team
in Los Angeles has won. No LA based team has
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lost since Thursday. Okay, this is Lakers and Clippers, this
is Rams and Chargers, it is the Dodgers, obviously, it
is l A f C. It's LA Galaxy in the
MLS playoffs. You want to throw in USC. Wait, what
about UCLA was off? Okay, otherwise it would have really ended.
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But every single team has won.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Why do you have to I'm just saying it would
have happened. I'm just saying it would have happened.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
But there it is a win streak for Los Angeles
unlike any other. Hell run every single sports and the
Kings considering her taking and a lot of other.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Space Lakers lose it.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You're bleeping the baseball, football, basketball, hockey.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Everybody is won. Everybody is one.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Except it looks like now the Lakers are going to
lose you Yeah, the boy. The Lakers were down three.
Lebron James was fouled on the floor with about four
seconds left to go. Lebron hits the first free throw
to make it one oh seven to one oh five,
and then he throws the ball really hard off the
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bottom of the rim, hoping the Lakers could get the
rebound and get a two to tie the game.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Except the Sons.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Were able to get in, grab it and throw the
ball down court. So the Sons are on the free
throw line with eight tenths of a second left to go.
They lead at one oh seven to one oh five.
So the big run of Los Angeles is now over.
What did I tell you the spread was?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
What would you say?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
It was three and a half a half?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yeah, yeah. Here's the big free throw with point eight
seconds Rip Jason.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Now, if you were actually watching this game, that wasn't
even the big stat coming off of it.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
What's that's a pretty big stat?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Man?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
The whole city has had a five day winning show.
There was a way bigger one going on. Okay, what
is it now? Lebron had seven points with two minutes
to play in this game. The last time Lebron didn't
score ten plus points? Was when?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Oh man, his rookie year, right or his second? Tell
me that's the it's a question. Yeah, yeah, it's the
big ten point. Yeah, it's the big ten point fifty Yeah,
ten points okay, run I want.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
To say ten plus points. When was the last time
he did not score?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I want I want to say it goes all the
way back to his I'll say this second year in Cleveland.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
So what year was that?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Two thousand and four, two thousand and four?
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Oh seven?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Oh seven? Really wow? Oh seven?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
But he did score, he did hit that for he
did eleven. He had eleven points. Not a great look,
lebron is not a night like this in a long time.
He's only three for fourteen. Can't wait to see how
salty is in the post game.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
But you believe he only had eleven more points than Browny.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Yeah, when you put it that way, really does make
you think Bronny.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Getting a d npcd O. By the way, uh So.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
The Lakers League doesn't start for another week. They suffered
their first loss of the season. LA breaks their win
streak at four and a half days. But the Dodgers
are a game away from winning the World Series. And
that's clearly where the focus is right now. After watch
the Dodgers beat the Yankees tonight four to two, and
there's a lot of people who are surprised, right, Hey, Yank,
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I thought this cleeries, but I thought series be closer.
I said Dodgers and seven. You had Dodgers and six,
and it looks like it's gonna be Dodgers in four.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Yeah, I mean if history he says it right now
as we talk with John Paul Morosi, I mean it's
nine straight sweeps.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I was about three to zero in cleaning the two
thousand and five white Socks.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
But there's a reason why you should want. Doug Eddings
helps you there. But there's whatever, there's a Henning. I
had nothing to do with it. It was not Sheddings,
Doug Henning, Doug great mustache, Doug Hunting. He looked like
Pete Dennis de Young, like from the seventies Doug Henning time. Uh,
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you shouldn't be surprised the Yankees are down three zip?
Why because the Yanks Keys have not played well on
the playoffs. I thought you were going to say they stink. No,
we'll say that for teams that actually stink. The Yankees
are in the World Series. But what what do we
say coming into the World Series? How maddening was it
to watch the Yankees succeed despite the fact they've played awful, right,
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the way they've run the bases, they've played loose in
the field, they're not hitting, they have been bad. But
yet they get a couple of big home runs against
the Guardians. They get a big home run from Judge,
big couple of big home runs from Soto, big home
runs from Stanton, and you think all the but the
Yankees have not played well, and it's it's maddening to
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see them in the World Series when they have just
kind of, yeah, we've hit a couple of big home
runs and that's been enough. Our bullpen has blown it
for us. Are starting pitching has not been good. And
yet still the Yankees are in the World Series, and
and and and you scratch your head and go, they
shouldn't be here. They've not played well. And to see
them not play well in the in the World Series
so far, it's not surprising their down three is that
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because the same thing has has given them issues. Their
bullpen's not been good, right, bad decisions they've made the
decision that Luis Rojas made to send Gienmcarlo Stanton tonight
when when Tiascar Hernandez has the ball in left field
and he's rounding third base. Bad decision, you know, not
pitching to show hey Otani the first batter of the
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game Clark Schmidt, when he could set the tone and
see what kind of swings Otani could give you with
his shoulder injury. No, I'm gonna walk him in, Freddie Freeman,
it's a home run. I mean, so many things the
Yankees have done that you can just best describe as
loose play right, They've not nearly as been as focused
and have things buttoned down like the Dodgers do. And yes,
have the Dodgers played better? Yes, are the Dodgers a
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better team. Their lineup is better one through nine. They're
starting pitching both teams is about the same, but the
Dodgers starting pitching has been better. The Dodgers' bullpen is better. Overall,
the Dodgers are a better team, but seven game series
the Yankees with their hitter. But the Yankees just have
not been good. Aaron Judge has been terrible the entire postseason. Right,
He's hitting like one fifty, like the Yankees have just
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found a way somehow to play opponents that don't scare them.
What do we say the very beginning of the playoffs,
before the Yankees even played, when the Guardians won and
the Royals won, it was the Yankees' best dreams have
come true because the two teams that could beat them
just got knocked out of the playoffs, the Astros and
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the Oriols, the two teams they wouldn't want to play
at all in the playoffs because they have their number, right,
the Askers have had the Yankees' number. The Orioles beat
them and played them incredibly difficult when they both got
knocked out. What was our take that night? If the
Yankees aren't in the World Series, something's wrong because there's
nobody in their way. The Royals, they're a better team.
The Royals are happy to be where they are. Maybe
they get better as the years go on, but they
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were happy to be there. The Guardians, they're a really
good team. But the Yankees were better. They beat their closer,
They beat Class A. The Yankees had had not quite
a bye, but they had a really great path to
the World Series. And congratulations everybody who stole them take
in the ensuing days, it was stolen by many people,
but we said it at the time, the Yankees should
be in the World Series. And what did we watch
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the next two rounds? The Yankees have just played. Okay,
they've not played great baseball. You can't say they've played
great defensively, you can't say they've run the base as well,
you can't say they've pitched extremely well. But somehow they
found a way to outclass opponents and make it to
the World Series. So when you get to the World
Series and you still play kind of crappy and you
play loose and you don't hit, it's no surprise that
to the best team in baseball you are down three
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games tonight.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I am not.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Surprised at this point there.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Down three is if because the Yankees are not play
good and they're done getting a bye or beating today
we're getting by not playing well, don't world stand up
for the World Series?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Nope, the Dodgers are going through like a hot knife
through butter well.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
And that goes back to any sport.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
The last couple of years, we look at paths towards championships, right,
a lot made at the NBA. Okay, you got through this,
this and this and natsch one of those series there
was a pivotal player that wasn't on the court or
miss part of the series or all all the way through.
For this particular run, just watching the Yankees, the bats
are bad right with Walker Bueller when first ball swinging, like,
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what are we doing? The guy has struggled, and yes,
he's a different guy in the World Series. You acknowledged that,
but it's also that's another year, that's another time, that's
another lifetime ago. And to the point of that, John
Palm morose he was making talking about becoming a better pitcher.
That's true, but you still have to theory test it right,
because one start does not a new career and a
(25:32):
reborn man make. And he got through five innings and
didn't really give up anything. You had the fourth inning
where they had an opportunity and they ran themselves out
of it. Again. The Lewis Luis Rojas double agent theory
starting to run amock as people love that the other
is uh. John Sterling on the flyout from Aaron Judge
(25:54):
called it like Harry Carey used to call pop ups,
thinking that Judge and Fine he finally got ah ta
oscars there.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
John, I'm trying to give Yankee fans hope. Listen again,
you give him two seconds of thinking maybe it's a
home run.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
He paused, and he just goes. He fooled me, He
fooled me. So but but that was like the one
bit of life. Right, you're gonna have two runners on
instead Stanton goes, and then it's the end of the inning. Right,
You finished an inning trying to leg out a ti
Oscar Hernandez throw from shallow leve field and that was
(26:33):
your only threat, right, so you finally have something working
where maybe you can get Dave Roberts off his bingo card. Yep,
you can get the front office whatever that communication was
of the sequencing of relievers, that maybe you could run
and throw it out the window, and you didn't. And
that's been the story, Like they got the clause, so good,
good for them, right, because he was the best all
(26:54):
year long, and everybody saw the stats of ah, this
hasn't happened all year more and runs, Well, you found
him in a bad space. Douchers are running so many
arms out here and they're ready bullpen game tomorrow. I mean,
how great would that be for Dave Roberts might go
and Gronk spike the ball after the final out tomorrow
(27:15):
if they finish it off in a sweep, or you
can't because this team is dead right now, This Yankee squad,
right they're getting bat at bats, lazy pop ups. Again,
the Stanton play is one that will live forever in
terms of how this series goes, like you finally had
a heartbeat, right, we finally found there it is, there's
the fame and then the I mean, it was a
(27:40):
long games, as Steve pointed out, it's update you know
talking about we were three hours plus, But those last
couple winnings that are even with Dugo's homer, it never
felt like there was a threat.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
No, the Yankees, they've played bad baseball and somehow been
able to survive. But it's only gonna happen for so
long because now they're playing the best team they've played,
and now they're getting like they're getting a clinic. Hey,
this is how you do it. This is how you
win a world soon and it's.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Not clean either on the Dodgers side, Right, you had
the bunt and I was waiting for you to do
fifteen minutes soliloquy on the the hatred of the bunt.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Part of you wanted to see the Dodgers who just
so I can tell you that's why you don't bunt.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
That's why bunting should not happen enough.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
How are we start in the a block of the
eight o'clock hour, Oh, I gotta, I got a story
for you.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
We're gonna talk about the bunt.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I've been researching the bunt and it's failures time and
time again. But you had that. I mean the fact
that most of the runs have been scored on home runs.
It's it's not like they're doing the fundamental get them on,
get him over, get him in. It's just been timely hitting.
Freddy Freeman's on fire.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
They're out executing. They're out executing the ink and defensively.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
You saw Mookie Betts, you saw Tay Oscar the margins right,
they're leading no margins.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Look at the.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
First inning tonight, Clark Schmidt came in, he nibbled at
the strike zone, he walked o Tawny, he got behind Bets,
he got behind free Freeman. It's a home run, right
walker Bula first inning, rite at Soto write it judge,
I'm going right at these guys, right, I can't just continue. No,
that's how you win. That's how you win World Series.
That first inning, the different way that the pitchers attacked
(29:13):
this game told you everything and took all the momentum.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Whatever meant to the Yankees had was gone. It's absolutely we.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Get pitch scared in this kind of circumstance. Right, This
isn't Game one twenty seven where you're just trying to
eat innings and solidify your place in a rotation. World Series. Man,
that throwing a pitch noos.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
On the breakball there goes deep left center field and
Chaoscar is there to make the catch.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
You should make that your dad's ring, don I should
call my dad with that.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Hey, Oh you know, it almost sounded like when he
when he did that that call. It almost sounded like
the pitch came in and I looked down to my
notes and I heard the crack of the bat.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Look, I don't want to miss it. Oh oh no, no, no,
us got it.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Fool me.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Tay Oscar's got it. To Oscar's got it.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Oh whoa, whoa, whoa come on Frog, whoa, come on, Frostburg,
He's the guy who came out of retirement to call
the Yankee. He's getting swept in the World Series. He's
not happy right now. He's probably gonna retire. I wonder
if he retires before Game four? Does John certainly say
I've had uh retires first him or Aaron Judge? Oh no,
see now, my dad's gonna want to fight you. You
(30:25):
make fun of Aaron Judge. My dad will fight you.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
I will not fight your dad.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
He was a nam Yeah that's true.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, he was to tell you his stuff, and he'd
definitely be underhanded, like hit you with a golf club,
not a baseball back, because you know he's seventy seven
agent Orange me.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Well he comes in with a gas mask on. Forget
your toast. You are going full on great kabuki. Is
that what we're doing here?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Or he's got that get up like the Riddler in
the Emo Batman movie.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Exit Out Bout of Fresco, Exit Swelling Dome The Jason
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Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
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Speaker 7 (31:00):
By the way, the rest of that call after he
was understandably fooled.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
It happens to all of us.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
It was off the end of the bed and a
cheap flyout to left.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Oh did I get fooled on that?
Speaker 5 (31:11):
What with that swing and the ball majestically going to
left field, Susan, I actually thought it was going to
be out and it wasn't close.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Let's see where there was a hide cutter and he
really didn't get.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Some good wood under it. But it looked obviously like
it was off the end of the bat.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
And yeah, maybe I'm looking to see if the flags
were pull the.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
No, no, the flag, the flags, it was all up
the flags.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
It bowled it down.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Man, it would have been out, but instead, you know,
if the wind's too high out it would have carried
another two hundred feet it would have been a home run.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (31:44):
Shorter ports than they knew, I guess. By the way,
speaking of gen Carlo's skin Carlo Italian for human molasses.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
By the way, apparently, wow.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
He used to be known as Mike.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
I know he's so slow. It takes two hours to
watch sixty minutes. It with that kind of thing, and
then you're not paying him for a speed Why are
you sending him home? The guy has one stolen base
in the last six years. But seeing Stanton round third,
it was like watching NFL films. I mean, we had
the slow motion.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
All we were Johnson send narration.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
As soon as he was tossed out at the plate.
Our friend in Daniel Jeremiah tweets, you know, sid Bream
beats that throw. So the Dodgers win at Yankee Stadium
four to two.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
They're up three games to none in the World Series.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Freddy Freeman with a two run homer in the first,
each team with five hits and six walks. Just for
the record, in baseball's long history of postseason series that
are best of seven, a team down three games to
none has only twice even forced a game seven. Houston
did so and then lost in twenty twenty, and of course, famously,
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twenty years ago, the Yankees blew a three to zero
lead to the Boston Red Sox in Game four. Is
on Fox TV at eight pm Eastern Time tomorrow. Of course,
those other teams, by the way, everybody talks about We
mentioned this over the weekend on the show you know,
usually when you win the opening game more than fitz
percent of the time, you will a seer her. Usually
when you win the first two and yeah, well all
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of those teams had four starters. I'm guessing the Dodgers
have a bullpen game tomorrow and they use seven pitchers tonight.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So however, I'm standing by rob Manfer just made a decision.
He's bringing back an all star team made up of
Mets and Padres to play the Dodgers now to try
to keep the series going. Yankees get tomorrow off, so Mets,
Padres all stars to play.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
That should should make it.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
So we're gonna see Diaz in the ninth or maybe
the seventh through the night.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
I don't know, Cortes what in the fourth today?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Well, let's go.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Is that lineup to tease Maachado Lindora so I make
things difficult?
Speaker 3 (33:46):
That would be very entertaining.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Actually, Monday night football not so entertaining it.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
Pittsburgh Steelers over the Giants twenty six to eighteen. Giants
are two and six. How about this from AP In
the last five years plus record in primetime games, the
Giants are an NFL worse.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Two and eighteen.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
The next worst in primetime games the Jets at two
and fourteen, and they're in primetime on Thursday.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
Night, people against the Texans. Set the DVR now.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
In the NBA late game at Phoenix Suns over the
Lakers one oh nine, one o five, and the Lakers were.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Up twenty six to eight early. Back to you, Thank you,
Steve O.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
The Jason smithser with Mike Carmon live from the Tyreck
dot Com Studios. We got more baseball on the way,
believe it or not, there's a silver lining for the Yankees.
But straight ahead, two big hot takes and things to
know coming off of Monday night football between the Steelers
and Giants.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
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Speaker 2 (34:39):
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Speaker 1 (34:46):
No, they yanky yan You sat Billy Joel tomorrow night
instead of dude kid.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
You know, Joe.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yankee fans literally thought they were at a funeral. Yeah,
Fat Joe, Fat Joe did not win the crowd tonight.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I don't think he did. He did not or something
with a fistful of dollars.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
I'm just trying to find something.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Man The Jason Smith Show with Mike Cartman live from
the tire rack dot Com Studios. We'll have more in
the World series coming up in about ten minutes. But
Monday Night Football Tonight, we watched the Steelers beat the
Giants twenty six to eighteen, a game that was not
great in the first half, but we saw some touchdowns
in the second half and that got fun. Two big
(35:29):
hot takes coming off of this game. First one, Steelers. Yes,
Russell Wilson played fine. He's not doing anything. Justin Fields
hasn't done right tonight it was a struggle. Yes, they
scored twenty six points. He's not lighting the world on fire.
He's not doing anything that that makes you say, wow.
They should have gone to him earlier. Why did they
(35:50):
keep waiting on Justin Fields. He's executing the offense. Are
they getting into the end zone? Yes, they're getting in.
Last week aainst the Jets, they got in on short feet.
Tonight they got in. Wilson had a chance to win
the game tonight with a scramble in the final three minutes,
but instead, for some reason, he runs parallel to the
line of scrimmage, and you know who would have got
that first down was Justin Fields. We had a big
(36:12):
fumble from Russell Wilson. So it's not like he's great.
The Steelers are winning, but they would have won these
last two games with Justin Fields at quarterback. I'm not
suddenly saying, oh my god, Russell Wilson's great, he's the answer.
He's playing okay, But Justin Field's played okay too.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
No, that's it took four sacks tweight twenty of twenty eight.
You got a couple of big plays on the board.
Pickins did have what should have been a touchdown in
the first half when he hopped on one foot twice,
but evidently got to have both feet. So that's actually
in the rule book enumerated Dusty. I would imagine that
(36:47):
will get changed. Here he is, he's pogo sticking down
the sideline for twenty five yards into the end zone,
but the second foot never comes down. Is it really
a catch? No, Evidently by the rules it would not be.
But yeah, to your point, he's there were a number
of times where the elusiveness and the style that Fields
play plays would have come in handy, no question about it.
(37:09):
But for the Steelers it's another win. They're six and two,
the most unlikely six and two that you're gonna find.
Play defense. They actually ran the football one hundred and
sixty seven yards on the ground today, which is a
huge leap because that side of the game is actually
coming together much much better than it did early on.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Look, and for the Steelers, they're a good team. They
have been a good team. This is how they kind
of want to win with really good defense. They won
with a couple of big defensive plays in the end, TJ.
Watt stripping Daniel Jones and then the Daniel Jones interception
in the final mat Daniel Jones being a key thing here.
But the Steelers have been this way. This sudden viewpoint
(37:50):
or that Russell Wilson has transformed the team, he hasn't.
I mean, people forget Justin Field's made some pretty good plays.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Like he was terrible.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Mike Tomlin was bent on making this move, so he did,
and luckily for him, it hasn't backfired. But it's not
like I've watched Russell Wilson transform this team. If anything,
they're more limited. Yes, does he throw a pretty deep ball, Yes,
he does throw a pretty deep ball. You know, he
doesn't do make more dynamic plays with his legs like
Justin Fields did. He would have been able to end
(38:17):
that game at the end with a scramble. So I
feel like for the Steelers, yes, he's getting all this attention,
but the results would have been the same. Would have
won these last two games, they would still be six
and two. Justin Fields would have had a very similar
stat line, maybe a few less yards passing and a
few more yards rushing.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
But when Mike.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Tomlin loves you, it doesn't matter. He will put you
out there, continue to give you the football and give
you a chance to make plays. It's clear he loves
Naji Harris more than Jalen Warren because he continues to
give the ball more than Naji Harris. It's clear he
loves Russell Wilson more than Justin Fields, who is the
emergency quarterback tonight. So yeah, he plays favorites and it's
worked out, But it would be the exact They'd be
(38:56):
in the exact same spot if they had Justin.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Bie Harris Warren. Battle is the same thing. Because a
lot of column inches and radio talk of how Warren
should have been the guy. I mean, I certainly contributed
to that A bunch last year as well. I think
the best moment for Russell Wilson though, is they did
a cool graphic where they actually had him do the
Homer Simpson into the hedges when Field started the season. Yeah,
(39:21):
and then they said, well and then he got reinserted
and he came back out of the hedges. So I
mean that really was maybe the best little AI animated Russell.
That would be his thing.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Out of the Hedges, right, heges im Russell Wilson out
of the hedges, Exit out bout of Fresca exit Swalling Dome.
The Jason smithser with Mike Harmy coming up next. Hey,
got another big hot take coming off of Monday Night
Football for you. We may have seen the last of
Daniel Jones. Wait what plus a silver lining for the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
This time it counts well.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
The last nine World Series started out three zip have
all been sweeps. With that thought tomorrow at this time,
we could be talking about the Dodgers World Series champions
in twenty twenty four. They beat the Yankees four to
two to take a three.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Games to none lead.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
How, why?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
And sometimes is it just your year?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Joining us now in the hotline, nobody better MLB Network
Inside a reporter extraordinaire, a longtime friend of the show,
and a man who texted me today and said, I
underestimated the Lions offense when I saw it, I him
to win last week. It is John Paul Morosi, John Paul,
what's happening, Bud.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
I'm doing great, my friends. I underestimated the Lions office
and I underestimated the Dodgers entirely. Before this postseason began,
I thought that that first round series against the Podreys
would be tough for them. I actually thought the Podres
might win it. But shows you what I know, because
right now the Dodgers one win away, and the point
(01:51):
was made. I think Aj Casselevell, my friend from MLB
dot Com, made this point that the Dodgers have not
been truly tested to the brink since the Padre series.
That was the team that has played them the toughest.
The Padres were really good, the Mets were I think
game as much as they could be, and the Yankees
(02:12):
were still waiting for them to fully check into this series.
It just seems like Game one, and we can talk
about the momentum swing of Game one, and certainly that
easily could have been a Yankee victory. But the Dodgers
have been the better team clearly over the last three games.
And it's not as though this comes down to one
managerial decision or one swing of the bat from Freddie.
(02:35):
The Dodgers have been the better team, and if we're
being honest, there's just not a whole lot of signs
on the field right now that it's about to swing
around in the Yankees favor John Paul.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
If I said to you, Okay, the Dodger up three
to nothing, you talked about what the Dodgers have done. Look,
they've been the better team top to bottom. As you said,
Freddie Freeman's ad a home run in every game. The
Dodger bullpen has been great. They're starting pitching has been great.
If I say, if I asked you the flip side, hey,
the Yankees are down three, what would be the biggest
thing you would point to for the Yankees?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I think it's it's number one. I will say number one.
It's the inability of the starting pitching to take them
deeper into games. And it's it's forced Aaron Boone to
make moves with his bullpen that he hasn't wanted to do.
I think that what had to happen after Game one,
and its heartbreaking as that conclusion was, is Rodin had
(03:27):
to give them a quality start in Game two. Didn't
happen after falling down. Oh two, still a winnable series.
What has to happen tonight is Clark Schmid's got to
get them five or six quality innings. Didn't happen, So
there is momentum. I think that when a game is
like Game one, much like Game six and twenty eleven
(03:50):
in the World Series, there there was some carryover, I
think to Game two, but just the starting pitching execution
just hasn't been there. Yamamoto way better in Game two
than Rode on tonight, Bueler way better than Schmid. I mean,
that's the story of the series, as much as as
much as we talk about the dramatics of Game one,
(04:11):
as much as we talk about the struggles of Judge,
which are real, you know, and the Yankees have They've
not clicked offensively, and they've left themselves no margin for air,
and they've made errors, they've made defensive errors, they've put
guys on base, they just haven't played crisp fundamental baseball.
And then I'm surprised. I thought the Yankees were at
(04:34):
least the equal of the Dodgers, and I think in
some ways I expect them to be better in this
World Series, but clearly they just have not been up
to the task. And then the Dodgers right now have
all the belief, all the momentum, and all the expectation
of winning this World Series.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You know, for me, John Paul, it comes down to
Mike and I talk to this a few minutes ago.
Is that I thought, Okay, this is going to be
Game three. The Yankees get to flush everything that happened
in LA and start over again. And then I watched
Clark Schmidt walk show, Hey Otani on four pitches, and Otani,
who clearly has a shoulder injury, and you gotta find
out what he's got. How can he swing the bat?
(05:10):
If you saw the game go on, you could tell
he grimaced, he was not swinging the bat like he
normally was. And yet Schmidt was afraid of him, like, Hey,
here's otime in the middle of a heater, Like you
have to see what he's got and see if you
can overpower him.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Can he turn on a fastball? Is he going to
be late?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
What kind of swing does he have, and instead you
put him on with four pitches and Freddie Freeman's two
run home and it's the worst possible start you could
have for the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
That's exactly right. And and every starting pitcher in every
playoff series that's ever happened has had the chance to
set the tone for his team every single time. And
and to your point, the tone that was set tonight
was not at all the one the Yankees wanted. And
by the way, I did notice, and I'm sure Mike
did too. How you work the word grimace into that.
(05:56):
Sure the Mets, the Mets, the Mets are still alive.
And this in this kind versation to lead, But you're right,
And and I think not being able to locate to
show hey, I think foreshadowed the ability to not place
the ball to Freddy that he wanted. And it's interesting
the Dodgers, it seems they're so good and so deep
(06:21):
that they've been able to operate effectively with with some
significant diminishment to a superstar player. Freeman was playing on
one leg for the first two weeks. Told he told
Ken Rosenthal tonight that the time off did him a
lot of good. He was able to get his ankle
to a better place and actually work on a swing more.
(06:41):
And so we've now seen Freddie come back to being himself,
while Show is now playing hurt. But but it's they're
so deep that it almost that almost equals out. And
and Mookie is still great to ask her at a
big defensive play, Key k another clutch, RBI walks his
control everything. Edmunds had some big games. This is what
(07:03):
it looks like when you win the World Series, exactly
what you're seeing right now, and these have not been
It's interesting that the Mets series was sort of weaving
back and forth between these lopsided scores. Obviously the Dodgers
won four of them, but this series it's been tighter.
Of course with the scores, but it felt as though
(07:26):
the Dodgers, except for when it looked like the Yankees
might win Game one, they've really been in control, in
control of the series for what seems like twenty three
or twenty four of the twenty seven innings. I mean,
they've just been the better team. And it could be
two to one. You could say, maybe if the Yankees
had won Game one, but it wouldn't change the fact
(07:46):
that the Dodgers have been decidedly the better baseball team
win this.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
World Series JP three nothing and owing to Jason's Mets.
Some wondering if Luis Rojas is a double agent because
in the fourth inning he sends Stanton rounding third and
Hernandez guns him down at the plate an active desperation.
I mean, it's only a three nothing game, it's the
four Well, you got potential for something, I know.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
And and to Oscar, he actually throws pretty well, and
that was a strike. I mean he threw his ninety
four miles an hour. I believe it was a stackass
number on it. I actually didn't have an issue with
it because you're you're trying just to get something going.
You're the Yankee rallies. I think Joe Davis made this
point during the broadcast. They just haven't even had that
(08:33):
many threats. And when you don't have threats, you need
to just just get something on the board, try to
just change the look in the field of the game.
And who knows, if you know, if he scores there,
it changes that inning, and who knows what happens late
with Radugo if he still at the same kind of pitch,
if it's the tighter game. But they're they're just hoping
(08:54):
right now. I mean that they're they're not they're not
stringing together good it's in good baseball. Can it change,
currec to change? Will it change? Probably not, based on
what we've seen so far, and it just seems like
based on the way things are going, it is a
matter of time before the Dodgers are are the World
(09:15):
Series champions because they're just they're the better, deeper team.
And also, by the way, as a consequence of this,
as you start to think about how do you come
back if you can, well, who's got the more rested
bullpen right now? The Dodgers the Yankees that you know,
they've had to be creative the last two games. Of course,
the quartetes thing in Game one, they're just not you know,
(09:37):
they've been competitive, they've actually the bullpen's did a pretty
good job of keeping games close, but they've never really
been able to use their bullpen the way they want
to because they've been playing from behind so much the
last two games because the starting pitchers just simply have
not been good enough for the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
John Paul Obviously, there's gonna be a lot of tension
on Aaron Judge and the series he is having or
is not at this point.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
He's hitting one forty. He has not hit it all.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Struck out again tonight, did walk tonight, So there is that,
but he just has not hitted all this series.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Is he being too aggressive? Are you not seeing good
at batsman?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
What?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
What do you see for Aaron Judge? Why he is
struggling so much?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
A couple of things there. I think that Aaron Judge
is someone who is susceptible to maybe getting out of
rhythm whenever he doesn't play for a while. It happened
at the start of the season, it happened before the
start of the series against the Royals. Is that bats
got a little bit better against Cleveland and now he's
back on the funk. He's clearly is feeling the pressure
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here of what of what is in front of him,
whether it's the contract, whether it's anything else. He can
handle pressure. He can he can handle the pressure. He
hits sixty two home runs with everybody in the world
following that home run pursuit. So the notion that he
can't handle pressure, I think is silly. He's he's not
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succeeding right now. I think because he maybe is pressing
a little bit. He doesn't seem to be on time
right now. And also he's facing a team that is
not making mistakes. They are pitching him very well. He
is getting I think a lot of the focus and
when it comes to I think the way they're approaching him,
they're realizing that often. I think there was almost the
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case when he walks is they don't have to give
him quality pitches right now to get him out. They
can have him chase, they can test them up high,
whatever it might be. You're not feeling like there's pressure
because when Judge is in this mode where he's swinging
a lot at pitches out of the zone, you don't
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feel like you have that pressure of putting in that
one little spot of the strike zone that is his
one cold zone. Now it's a much wider area. So
I just think he's not on time, he's getting pitched
really tough, the die are executing. It's all of the above.
He but I want to stress like he can handle pressure,
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like he handled he hit that massive home run against
the Guardians a week ago. He hit sixty two hovers
in another more than fifty this year, Like he's he
can handle it. He's just not He's not having success
right now. There's not much the Keys can do about it,
because for them to have a heartbeat in this series,
he's got a hit and right now he's not hitting.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Take it back to the to the other side. The
pitching for the Dodgers, Walker Bueller with another gem today
is postseason reputation takes another bounce up. And the happiest
guy in the world's got to be Dave Roberts. But
you know a guy that struggled when he came back
from injury JP and pitching a gem and an extended
innings once again, he did.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
And it's interesting he basically said on the postgame show
there with with Kevin Burkhard and company there in Fox
Sports that he basically said, and I'm paraps I'm paraphrasing here,
that he basically said, I was awful this year and
and during the regular season, and then you get to
the playoffs and a lot of that stuff melts away.
It's just about what you can do in front of them.
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And his first start against San Diego was certainly rocky.
He got torched early in that game, but settled in
and then a much better start against the Mets and
now another really great start I thought against the Yankees.
So he loves the big moment. He has had a
history of doing it, and it was interesting if you
listen to what he said after the game to Kevin,
(13:28):
It's almost as though he's saying, I abandoned the strategy
of just throwing as hard as I could, and I
worked on becoming a better pitcher. He's basically saying, I'm
a better pitcher now, even though my sheer, velocity and
stuff aren't what they used to be. And I really
hope that a lot of young pitchers, older pitchers, pitching coaches, executives, agents, everybody,
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and we listen to that because there is wisdom and
what he said, you don't have to throw one hundred
and then blow out your elbow to have success in
this game. He is saying that after the ups and
downs of his career, he likes it better. He seems
to be more comfortable now operating at a little bit
of a slower speed with better movement, and the results
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tonight guys did speak for themselves.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You can follow on Twitter at John Morosi, that is
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talk to you as the series continues or ends, whichever
comes first.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
As long as they're playing ball, we're gonna talk. And
then when the when the premiere twelve gets going in
Typei City and Tokyo next month, you can call me
then too. I'll be uh, he'll be. I can have
my breakfast with you and you guys call me an
evening time. It'll be breakfast for me. It'll be perfect.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It's breakfast with John Palm Morosi. Thanks going, yeah, all right,
John Paul.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
The nice nice ring to it. I appreciate it. Guys,
Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
We'll talk to you buddy.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Thanks buddy.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
All right, There goes John Palm Moros, The Jason Smithzer
with Mike Carmen live Theatyreck Dot Comm Studios coming up next. Boy,
got a big double shot for you. Why you shouldn't
be surprised the Yankees are down three zip in the
World Series and why there is so much pressure right
now on the Lakers to win this game over the
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Phoenix Suns And it doesn't have anything to do with
their standings or this Sea's NBA. Why there's so much
pressure on the Lakers to win this game that's next.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
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Speaker 1 (15:40):
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Speaker 2 (15:46):
Well dressed, we'll get back in the.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
World Series, which the Dodgers lead three zip. Tell you
why you shouldn't be surprised the Yankees are down three zip?
But why is there a lot of pressure on the
Lakers to win this game against the Suns. Lakers are
down three eight seconds to go in regulation. They have
the ball, so they need a three to tie the
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game and send it to overtime.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
What would you know about pressure.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Now if the spread was three and a half?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
No, not about the spread, Not about the spread, not
about not about the Lakers continue to stay undefeated.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
No, this is much bigger than that.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I mean, that would be a big deal. You stay undefeated.
You put the the anger that everybody had about the
bron Browny thing. Sure further in the rearview mirror. Sure
if they were salty, all the folks that were calling
on behalf of friends and family members to get them jobs,
interviews and everything else. They were really out of sorts
about that.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
The reason there's a lot of pressure think about this
because I don't know that I add this as something.
I mean, this is a once in a lifetime thing.
Going back to Thursday night. Thursday night, every single team
in Los Angeles has won. No LA based team has
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lost since Thursday. Okay, this is Lakers and Clippers, this
is Rams and Chargers, it is the Dodgers, obviously, it
is l A f C. It's LA Galaxy in the
MLS playoffs. You want to throw in USC. Wait, what
about UCLA was off? Okay, otherwise it would have really ended.
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But every single team has won.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Why do you have to I'm just saying it would
have happened. I'm just saying it would have happened.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
But there it is a win streak for Los Angeles
unlike any other. Hell run every single sports and the
Kings considering her taking and a lot of other.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Space Lakers lose it.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You're bleeping the baseball, football, basketball, hockey.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Everybody is won. Everybody is one.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Except it looks like now the Lakers are going to
lose you Yeah, the boy. The Lakers were down three.
Lebron James was fouled on the floor with about four
seconds left to go. Lebron hits the first free throw
to make it one oh seven to one oh five,
and then he throws the ball really hard off the
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bottom of the rim, hoping the Lakers could get the
rebound and get a two to tie the game.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Except the Sons.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Were able to get in, grab it and throw the
ball down court. So the Sons are on the free
throw line with eight tenths of a second left to go.
They lead at one oh seven to one oh five.
So the big run of Los Angeles is now over.
What did I tell you the spread was?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
What would you say?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
It was three and a half a half?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yeah, yeah. Here's the big free throw with point eight
seconds Rip Jason.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Now, if you were actually watching this game, that wasn't
even the big stat coming off of it.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
What's that's a pretty big stat?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Man?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
The whole city has had a five day winning show.
There was a way bigger one going on. Okay, what
is it now? Lebron had seven points with two minutes
to play in this game. The last time Lebron didn't
score ten plus points? Was when?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Oh man, his rookie year, right or his second? Tell
me that's the it's a question. Yeah, yeah, it's the
big ten point. Yeah, it's the big ten point fifty Yeah,
ten points okay, run I want.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
To say ten plus points. When was the last time
he did not score?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I want I want to say it goes all the
way back to his I'll say this second year in Cleveland.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
So what year was that?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Two thousand and four, two thousand and four?
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Oh seven?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Oh seven? Really wow? Oh seven?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
But he did score, he did hit that for he
did eleven. He had eleven points. Not a great look,
lebron is not a night like this in a long time.
He's only three for fourteen. Can't wait to see how
salty is in the post game.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
But you believe he only had eleven more points than Browny.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Yeah, when you put it that way, really does make
you think Bronny.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Getting a d npcd O. By the way, uh So.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
The Lakers League doesn't start for another week. They suffered
their first loss of the season. LA breaks their win
streak at four and a half days. But the Dodgers
are a game away from winning the World Series. And
that's clearly where the focus is right now. After watch
the Dodgers beat the Yankees tonight four to two, and
there's a lot of people who are surprised, right, Hey, Yank,
(20:16):
I thought this cleeries, but I thought series be closer.
I said Dodgers and seven. You had Dodgers and six,
and it looks like it's gonna be Dodgers in four.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Yeah, I mean if history he says it right now
as we talk with John Paul Morosi, I mean it's
nine straight sweeps.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I was about three to zero in cleaning the two
thousand and five white Socks.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
But there's a reason why you should want. Doug Eddings
helps you there. But there's whatever, there's a Henning. I
had nothing to do with it. It was not Sheddings,
Doug Henning, Doug great mustache, Doug Hunting. He looked like
Pete Dennis de Young, like from the seventies Doug Henning time. Uh,
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you shouldn't be surprised the Yankees are down three zip?
Why because the Yanks Keys have not played well on
the playoffs. I thought you were going to say they stink. No,
we'll say that for teams that actually stink. The Yankees
are in the World Series. But what what do we
say coming into the World Series? How maddening was it
to watch the Yankees succeed despite the fact they've played awful, right,
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the way they've run the bases, they've played loose in
the field, they're not hitting, they have been bad. But
yet they get a couple of big home runs against
the Guardians. They get a big home run from Judge,
big couple of big home runs from Soto, big home
runs from Stanton, and you think all the but the
Yankees have not played well, and it's it's maddening to
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see them in the World Series when they have just
kind of, yeah, we've hit a couple of big home
runs and that's been enough. Our bullpen has blown it
for us. Are starting pitching has not been good. And
yet still the Yankees are in the World Series, and
and and and you scratch your head and go, they
shouldn't be here. They've not played well. And to see
them not play well in the in the World Series
so far, it's not surprising their down three is that
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because the same thing has has given them issues. Their
bullpen's not been good, right, bad decisions they've made the
decision that Luis Rojas made to send Gienmcarlo Stanton tonight
when when Tiascar Hernandez has the ball in left field
and he's rounding third base. Bad decision, you know, not
pitching to show hey Otani the first batter of the
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game Clark Schmidt, when he could set the tone and
see what kind of swings Otani could give you with
his shoulder injury. No, I'm gonna walk him in, Freddie Freeman,
it's a home run. I mean, so many things the
Yankees have done that you can just best describe as
loose play right, They've not nearly as been as focused
and have things buttoned down like the Dodgers do. And yes,
have the Dodgers played better? Yes, are the Dodgers a
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better team. Their lineup is better one through nine. They're
starting pitching both teams is about the same, but the
Dodgers starting pitching has been better. The Dodgers' bullpen is better. Overall,
the Dodgers are a better team, but seven game series
the Yankees with their hitter. But the Yankees just have
not been good. Aaron Judge has been terrible the entire postseason. Right,
He's hitting like one fifty, like the Yankees have just
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found a way somehow to play opponents that don't scare them.
What do we say the very beginning of the playoffs,
before the Yankees even played, when the Guardians won and
the Royals won, it was the Yankees' best dreams have
come true because the two teams that could beat them
just got knocked out of the playoffs, the Astros and
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the Oriols, the two teams they wouldn't want to play
at all in the playoffs because they have their number, right,
the Askers have had the Yankees' number. The Orioles beat
them and played them incredibly difficult when they both got
knocked out. What was our take that night? If the
Yankees aren't in the World Series, something's wrong because there's
nobody in their way. The Royals, they're a better team.
The Royals are happy to be where they are. Maybe
they get better as the years go on, but they
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were happy to be there. The Guardians, they're a really
good team. But the Yankees were better. They beat their closer,
They beat Class A. The Yankees had had not quite
a bye, but they had a really great path to
the World Series. And congratulations everybody who stole them take
in the ensuing days, it was stolen by many people,
but we said it at the time, the Yankees should
be in the World Series. And what did we watch
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the next two rounds? The Yankees have just played. Okay,
they've not played great baseball. You can't say they've played
great defensively, you can't say they've run the base as well,
you can't say they've pitched extremely well. But somehow they
found a way to outclass opponents and make it to
the World Series. So when you get to the World
Series and you still play kind of crappy and you
play loose and you don't hit, it's no surprise that
to the best team in baseball you are down three
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games tonight.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I am not.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Surprised at this point there.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Down three is if because the Yankees are not play
good and they're done getting a bye or beating today
we're getting by not playing well, don't world stand up
for the World Series?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Nope, the Dodgers are going through like a hot knife
through butter well.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
And that goes back to any sport.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
The last couple of years, we look at paths towards championships, right,
a lot made at the NBA. Okay, you got through this,
this and this and natsch one of those series there
was a pivotal player that wasn't on the court or
miss part of the series or all all the way through.
For this particular run, just watching the Yankees, the bats
are bad right with Walker Bueller when first ball swinging, like,
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what are we doing? The guy has struggled, and yes,
he's a different guy in the World Series. You acknowledged that,
but it's also that's another year, that's another time, that's
another lifetime ago. And to the point of that, John
Palm morose he was making talking about becoming a better pitcher.
That's true, but you still have to theory test it right,
because one start does not a new career and a
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reborn man make. And he got through five innings and
didn't really give up anything. You had the fourth inning
where they had an opportunity and they ran themselves out
of it. Again. The Lewis Luis Rojas double agent theory
starting to run amock as people love that the other
is uh. John Sterling on the flyout from Aaron Judge
(25:54):
called it like Harry Carey used to call pop ups,
thinking that Judge and Fine he finally got ah ta
oscars there.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
John, I'm trying to give Yankee fans hope. Listen again,
you give him two seconds of thinking maybe it's a
home run.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
He paused, and he just goes. He fooled me, He
fooled me. So but but that was like the one
bit of life. Right, you're gonna have two runners on
instead Stanton goes, and then it's the end of the inning. Right,
You finished an inning trying to leg out a ti
Oscar Hernandez throw from shallow leve field and that was
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your only threat, right, so you finally have something working
where maybe you can get Dave Roberts off his bingo card. Yep,
you can get the front office whatever that communication was
of the sequencing of relievers, that maybe you could run
and throw it out the window, and you didn't. And
that's been the story, Like they got the clause, so good,
good for them, right, because he was the best all
(26:54):
year long, and everybody saw the stats of ah, this
hasn't happened all year more and runs, Well, you found
him in a bad space. Douchers are running so many
arms out here and they're ready bullpen game tomorrow. I mean,
how great would that be for Dave Roberts might go
and Gronk spike the ball after the final out tomorrow
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if they finish it off in a sweep, or you
can't because this team is dead right now, This Yankee squad,
right they're getting bat at bats, lazy pop ups. Again,
the Stanton play is one that will live forever in
terms of how this series goes, like you finally had
a heartbeat, right, we finally found there it is, there's
the fame and then the I mean, it was a
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long games, as Steve pointed out, it's update you know
talking about we were three hours plus, But those last
couple winnings that are even with Dugo's homer, it never
felt like there was a threat.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
No, the Yankees, they've played bad baseball and somehow been
able to survive. But it's only gonna happen for so
long because now they're playing the best team they've played,
and now they're getting like they're getting a clinic. Hey,
this is how you do it. This is how you
win a world soon and it's.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Not clean either on the Dodgers side, Right, you had
the bunt and I was waiting for you to do
fifteen minutes soliloquy on the the hatred of the bunt.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Part of you wanted to see the Dodgers who just
so I can tell you that's why you don't bunt.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
That's why bunting should not happen enough.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
How are we start in the a block of the
eight o'clock hour, Oh, I gotta, I got a story
for you.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
We're gonna talk about the bunt.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I've been researching the bunt and it's failures time and
time again. But you had that. I mean the fact
that most of the runs have been scored on home runs.
It's it's not like they're doing the fundamental get them on,
get him over, get him in. It's just been timely hitting.
Freddy Freeman's on fire.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
They're out executing. They're out executing the ink and defensively.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
You saw Mookie Betts, you saw Tay Oscar the margins right,
they're leading no margins.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Look at the.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
First inning tonight, Clark Schmidt came in, he nibbled at
the strike zone, he walked o Tawny, he got behind Bets,
he got behind free Freeman. It's a home run, right
walker Bula first inning, rite at Soto write it judge,
I'm going right at these guys, right, I can't just continue. No,
that's how you win. That's how you win World Series.
That first inning, the different way that the pitchers attacked
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this game told you everything and took all the momentum.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Whatever meant to the Yankees had was gone. It's absolutely we.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Get pitch scared in this kind of circumstance. Right, This
isn't Game one twenty seven where you're just trying to
eat innings and solidify your place in a rotation. World Series. Man,
that throwing a pitch noos.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
On the breakball there goes deep left center field and
Chaoscar is there to make the catch.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
You should make that your dad's ring, don I should
call my dad with that.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Hey, Oh you know, it almost sounded like when he
when he did that that call. It almost sounded like
the pitch came in and I looked down to my
notes and I heard the crack of the bat.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Look, I don't want to miss it. Oh oh no, no, no,
us got it.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Fool me.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Tay Oscar's got it. To Oscar's got it.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Oh whoa, whoa, whoa come on Frog, whoa, come on, Frostburg,
He's the guy who came out of retirement to call
the Yankee. He's getting swept in the World Series. He's
not happy right now. He's probably gonna retire. I wonder
if he retires before Game four? Does John certainly say
I've had uh retires first him or Aaron Judge? Oh no,
see now, my dad's gonna want to fight you. You
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make fun of Aaron Judge. My dad will fight you.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
I will not fight your dad.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
He was a nam Yeah that's true.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, he was to tell you his stuff, and he'd
definitely be underhanded, like hit you with a golf club,
not a baseball back, because you know he's seventy seven
agent Orange me.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Well he comes in with a gas mask on. Forget
your toast. You are going full on great kabuki. Is
that what we're doing here?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Or he's got that get up like the Riddler in
the Emo Batman movie.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
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Speaker 7 (31:00):
By the way, the rest of that call after he
was understandably fooled.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
It happens to all of us.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
It was off the end of the bed and a
cheap flyout to left.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Oh did I get fooled on that?
Speaker 5 (31:11):
What with that swing and the ball majestically going to
left field, Susan, I actually thought it was going to
be out and it wasn't close.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Let's see where there was a hide cutter and he
really didn't get.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Some good wood under it. But it looked obviously like
it was off the end of the bat.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
And yeah, maybe I'm looking to see if the flags
were pull the.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
No, no, the flag, the flags, it was all up
the flags.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
It bowled it down.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Man, it would have been out, but instead, you know,
if the wind's too high out it would have carried
another two hundred feet it would have been a home run.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (31:44):
Shorter ports than they knew, I guess. By the way,
speaking of gen Carlo's skin Carlo Italian for human molasses.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
By the way, apparently, wow.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
He used to be known as Mike.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
I know he's so slow. It takes two hours to
watch sixty minutes. It with that kind of thing, and
then you're not paying him for a speed Why are
you sending him home? The guy has one stolen base
in the last six years. But seeing Stanton round third,
it was like watching NFL films. I mean, we had
the slow motion.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
All we were Johnson send narration.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
As soon as he was tossed out at the plate.
Our friend in Daniel Jeremiah tweets, you know, sid Bream
beats that throw. So the Dodgers win at Yankee Stadium
four to two.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
They're up three games to none in the World Series.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Freddy Freeman with a two run homer in the first,
each team with five hits and six walks. Just for
the record, in baseball's long history of postseason series that
are best of seven, a team down three games to
none has only twice even forced a game seven. Houston
did so and then lost in twenty twenty, and of course, famously,
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twenty years ago, the Yankees blew a three to zero
lead to the Boston Red Sox in Game four. Is
on Fox TV at eight pm Eastern Time tomorrow. Of course,
those other teams, by the way, everybody talks about We
mentioned this over the weekend on the show you know,
usually when you win the opening game more than fitz
percent of the time, you will a seer her. Usually
when you win the first two and yeah, well all
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of those teams had four starters. I'm guessing the Dodgers
have a bullpen game tomorrow and they use seven pitchers tonight.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So however, I'm standing by rob Manfer just made a decision.
He's bringing back an all star team made up of
Mets and Padres to play the Dodgers now to try
to keep the series going. Yankees get tomorrow off, so Mets,
Padres all stars to play.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
That should should make it.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
So we're gonna see Diaz in the ninth or maybe
the seventh through the night.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
I don't know, Cortes what in the fourth today?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Well, let's go.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Is that lineup to tease Maachado Lindora so I make
things difficult?
Speaker 3 (33:46):
That would be very entertaining.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Actually, Monday night football not so entertaining it.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
Pittsburgh Steelers over the Giants twenty six to eighteen. Giants
are two and six. How about this from AP In
the last five years plus record in primetime games, the
Giants are an NFL worse.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Two and eighteen.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
The next worst in primetime games the Jets at two
and fourteen, and they're in primetime on Thursday.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
Night, people against the Texans. Set the DVR now.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
In the NBA late game at Phoenix Suns over the
Lakers one oh nine, one o five, and the Lakers were.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Up twenty six to eight early. Back to you, Thank you,
Steve O.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
The Jason smithser with Mike Carmon live from the Tyreck
dot Com Studios. We got more baseball on the way,
believe it or not, there's a silver lining for the Yankees.
But straight ahead, two big hot takes and things to
know coming off of Monday night football between the Steelers
and Giants.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
That's next Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (34:46):
No, they yanky yan You sat Billy Joel tomorrow night
instead of dude kid.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
You know, Joe.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yankee fans literally thought they were at a funeral. Yeah,
Fat Joe, Fat Joe did not win the crowd tonight.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I don't think he did. He did not or something
with a fistful of dollars.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
I'm just trying to find something.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Man The Jason Smith Show with Mike Cartman live from
the tire rack dot Com Studios. We'll have more in
the World series coming up in about ten minutes. But
Monday Night Football Tonight, we watched the Steelers beat the
Giants twenty six to eighteen, a game that was not
great in the first half, but we saw some touchdowns
in the second half and that got fun. Two big
(35:29):
hot takes coming off of this game. First one, Steelers. Yes,
Russell Wilson played fine. He's not doing anything. Justin Fields
hasn't done right tonight it was a struggle. Yes, they
scored twenty six points. He's not lighting the world on fire.
He's not doing anything that that makes you say, wow.
They should have gone to him earlier. Why did they
(35:50):
keep waiting on Justin Fields. He's executing the offense. Are
they getting into the end zone? Yes, they're getting in.
Last week aainst the Jets, they got in on short feet.
Tonight they got in. Wilson had a chance to win
the game tonight with a scramble in the final three minutes,
but instead, for some reason, he runs parallel to the
line of scrimmage, and you know who would have got
that first down was Justin Fields. We had a big
(36:12):
fumble from Russell Wilson. So it's not like he's great.
The Steelers are winning, but they would have won these
last two games with Justin Fields at quarterback. I'm not
suddenly saying, oh my god, Russell Wilson's great, he's the answer.
He's playing okay, But Justin Field's played okay too.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
No, that's it took four sacks tweight twenty of twenty eight.
You got a couple of big plays on the board.
Pickins did have what should have been a touchdown in
the first half when he hopped on one foot twice,
but evidently got to have both feet. So that's actually
in the rule book enumerated Dusty. I would imagine that
(36:47):
will get changed. Here he is, he's pogo sticking down
the sideline for twenty five yards into the end zone,
but the second foot never comes down. Is it really
a catch? No, Evidently by the rules it would not be.
But yeah, to your point, he's there were a number
of times where the elusiveness and the style that Fields
play plays would have come in handy, no question about it.
(37:09):
But for the Steelers it's another win. They're six and two,
the most unlikely six and two that you're gonna find.
Play defense. They actually ran the football one hundred and
sixty seven yards on the ground today, which is a
huge leap because that side of the game is actually
coming together much much better than it did early on.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Look, and for the Steelers, they're a good team. They
have been a good team. This is how they kind
of want to win with really good defense. They won
with a couple of big defensive plays in the end, TJ.
Watt stripping Daniel Jones and then the Daniel Jones interception
in the final mat Daniel Jones being a key thing here.
But the Steelers have been this way. This sudden viewpoint
(37:50):
or that Russell Wilson has transformed the team, he hasn't.
I mean, people forget Justin Field's made some pretty good plays.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Like he was terrible.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Mike Tomlin was bent on making this move, so he did,
and luckily for him, it hasn't backfired. But it's not
like I've watched Russell Wilson transform this team. If anything,
they're more limited. Yes, does he throw a pretty deep ball, Yes,
he does throw a pretty deep ball. You know, he
doesn't do make more dynamic plays with his legs like
Justin Fields did. He would have been able to end
(38:17):
that game at the end with a scramble. So I
feel like for the Steelers, yes, he's getting all this attention,
but the results would have been the same. Would have
won these last two games, they would still be six
and two. Justin Fields would have had a very similar
stat line, maybe a few less yards passing and a
few more yards rushing.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
But when Mike.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Tomlin loves you, it doesn't matter. He will put you
out there, continue to give you the football and give
you a chance to make plays. It's clear he loves
Naji Harris more than Jalen Warren because he continues to
give the ball more than Naji Harris. It's clear he
loves Russell Wilson more than Justin Fields, who is the
emergency quarterback tonight. So yeah, he plays favorites and it's
worked out, But it would be the exact They'd be
(38:56):
in the exact same spot if they had Justin.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Bie Harris Warren. Battle is the same thing. Because a
lot of column inches and radio talk of how Warren
should have been the guy. I mean, I certainly contributed
to that A bunch last year as well. I think
the best moment for Russell Wilson though, is they did
a cool graphic where they actually had him do the
Homer Simpson into the hedges when Field started the season. Yeah,
(39:21):
and then they said, well and then he got reinserted
and he came back out of the hedges. So I
mean that really was maybe the best little AI animated Russell.
That would be his thing.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Out of the Hedges, right, heges im Russell Wilson out
of the hedges, Exit out bout of Fresca exit Swalling Dome.
The Jason smithser with Mike Harmy coming up next. Hey,
got another big hot take coming off of Monday Night
Football for you. We may have seen the last of
Daniel Jones. Wait what plus a silver lining for the Yankees.
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