October 31, 2024 • 39 mins
Jason and Mike recap an UNREAL World Series between the Dodgers and Yankees. Juan Soto was asked if he expects the Mets to go after him in free agency. And a message to all the haters from Walker Buehler!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Dave Roberts can hardly watch.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Here's the one two pitch from Bueler got him swinging.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
That's a World Series Flinn for LA.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
They've done it.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
They've finished the job. And give Los Angeles the parade
it's been waiting for. Oh swarm of Dodgers on the
right side of the infield, grown men but children again,
living out dear dream.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
What fuck?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Fox Sports Radio AM five to seventy, Dodgers flagship station
here in Los Angeles. On the call, Congratulations everybody at
AM five to seventy.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
General Manager Don Martin.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Don Martin, who actually was going to pitch in the
tenth inning if it went another inning, he was gonna
come in and go.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
He was gonna have the big belt buckle yep, sure, sure,
dress and everything else.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Ready to go, Preston, ready to go. The Dodgers are
your World Series champions. Seven to six. They come back
from down five to nothing. The Yankees blow the largest
lead in a elimination game in World Series thanks to
their leaky defense. Uh and the Dodgers win it by
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a score of seven to six. And look, you know,
the two biggest criticisms of both of these teams coming
into this, right, two biggest criticisms were Dave Roberts pitching
decisions or whoever was making the pitching decisions about the
bullpen games right.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Whatever, whatever that brain trust was, Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Are you giving away? You gave away Game four? The
baseball God just saying we're not gonna let you do that.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Uh. So you had.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
The the pitching decisions of of of the Dodgers versus
the Yankees fielding, and it was like a back It's
like watching that video of like the two cats that
that that that fight and that they bare they barely,
like like put Paul at each other, like who was
gonna win that?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And and clearly early on Dave Roberts and the Dodger
are winning because the decision looked terrible. Looked absolutely awful
not bringing in your high leverage guys last night in
a close game, and the Dodgers had the lead early, and.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Then the Yankee said, oh no, no, hoh, my beer.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Uh, We're gonna give you the sixth inning where we
make a bunch of errors and mental mistakes, and the
Dodgers come back and tie the game at five apiece,
and you knew at some point somebody was gonna pay right.
The rubber was gonna hit the road for either the
Dodgers pitching. Hey, we've done this bullpen situation for a
long time. Eventually that was gonna come up empty, or
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the Yankees' horrendous fielding and base running was going to
be what came up empty. And that turned out to
be what it was. Because, as I've said many times,
it was so frustrating watching the Yankees continue to succeed
through these playoffs when they played bad baseball. I mean,
it tells you how good a team they really are
that they just played horrible baseball. They got bailed out
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by some big home runs against the Guardians. The Dodgers
beat them in five, even though they finally had a
night where they hit but it was frustrating watching a
team field the ball, Like again, they need Tom Amansky.
They need Fred McGriff and the big high hat, the
the guy throwing the ball into the trash can at
home plate, not the guy banging the trash can.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
A couple of times too, because they were nine for
forty five with runners in scoring position.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
They need Fred McGriff, pointing to the Yankees going Tom
Amanski gets my full endorsement. Like the Yankees played horrendous
fundamental baseball. They couldn't make the easy plays they had
to make, and it was all magnified. To Aaron Judge
dropping that fly ball is inexcusable. Volpi's throw to third,
I mean that was a really bad des I get
the plays in front of you, but what kind of
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throw is that? And Volpi is someone who really he
was the lamar Odom of this series. Every other play
he made. You can't do that at shortstop, but every
other play. I fet boy, that's a good play by Volpey. Oh,
that's a horrible play by Volpi. But it was so
frustrating watching the Yankees play that way and continue to succeed.
And you knew at some point, okay, but That's what
came home to roost for them. They couldn't get past
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their own miscues. So even though they lost in five
and it was a series where you could say, all right,
well the Dodgers were better, they were the best team. No,
you found you were trying to find your way into
the series and you made too many self inflicted mistakes.
And you know, for everybody wants to blame Aaron Boone
different reasons. You just watch the Yankees play and you go,
what are you thinking? Defensively? What are you thinking with
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these plays? What do you think in Rizzo and Edwa?
What's going on here? The Yankees? It was I feel
like I'm standing up. It was a good night for
baseball that the Dodgers one instead of the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Because if the.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yankees somehow won this World Series playing that badly in
the field, what.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Does that say?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
What does it say about defense? It's the brand that
your moneyball. Hey, his defense does not mapp you are
too big to fail. Defense does not matter?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
What about his defense?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
But Aaron Booth, they coach it up right, I mean,
what's he gonna do? Aaron Judge fly ball right at him,
didn't have to move, not a positioning thing at all.
Nor could you say he lost it in the list
see him take his eyes off and look at.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Him in the second.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Yeah, and so he drops the ball voltpe to some degree,
I'm like, all right, was he trying to see if
he could just fit it in afraid the pop up
of the slide that he didn't throw it into his back?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Maybe?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Either way, that's not the play, even if it's in
front plays a second. Slow guy going first to second
doesn't make that play. And then the rizinal play. Look,
this is a guy with four gold gloves and has
been a runner up like multiple times in his career,
so you expect him to make the right line and
none of that's on and Aaron Boone, nor can he
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tell these guys how to hit runners in scoring position.
They were one for ten today, right, A couple of
times they leave the bases loaded, all of it the
comedy of errors. But to your point, as we've watched
them throughout the season, they've been bailed out by the
long ball, been bailed out by big hits, and this
time it came back on them. It was you know
which side was going to have their philosophy fail in
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this case? Yet fifth inning. We'll go down in history.
I mean that we always talk about, Hey, there's the
tape that you show your team, right the softball. Would
you not take that tape and just say, all right,
here's three plays and guess what they happened in sequence?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You know, look, and and I know and just that
the Rizzo play is going to be what gets because
that play gets the Yankees out of the inning. Yeah,
if they make the play, it gets them out of
the inning. And every and I talked, I thought that
every time when when you teach a play, and I'd
like going down to the youth, lave I teach, Okay,
if the ball is hit to the sod the pitcher,
you have to go to first base.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
It's got to be an instinct. You can't be late.
You gotta know to go to first pace.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
And then got uncovering you're backing up the catcher like
there's two two fundamental days.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, when when the ball is hit to the right side,
no matter where it is, you have to go to
first base because you don't know where it's gonna go.
And and I get Garrett Cole on that, but it
looked like he had a pretty decent start. Should he
have kept going, obviously, But like I said, he wanted
to send the message to Rizzo that I'm not gonna
get you gotta take it yourself. But Rizzo has to
feel that with much more of a sense of urgency,
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because this was a hey, you got to know where
you are on the field going, Mookie Bets hit this,
I'm far away from the bag, so I'm gonna toss it.
But I also know what if Garrett Cole doesn't get
like you have to take into the beginning happen? And
if he if he feels that more aggressively and hey,
I'm taking I'm moving towards the bag. He beats Mookie
Betts to the bag and instead of a five to
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five game, it's five to nothing, and all right, good
luck because Cole comes back out the next inning pitch
as well. Now you're still chasing five runs. I mean that,
that's where That's why I look and go, that's such
a mental mistake by by Anthony Rizzo, because you have
to be able to know that, all right, I can't
just be lulled in that Okay, he's gonna be here.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
What if he's not here?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I mean that that that stuff that I get mad
about that on the youth of it going, you know,
we've gone over this, you have to get to first.
I know, I know, I can't imagine Aaron Boone in
the in a closeout game in the World Series, going
what the hell are we doing?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
What the hell is that? Well?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I mean, really, Aaron Boone, who I thought was gonna
get fired way before now I actually feel bad for
him tonight because they had to watch in those innings going,
how does I mean It's not his fault judging and
get that fly ball. It's not his fault that Volpie
makes that bad throw. It's not his fault that Garret
Cole and Anthony Rizzo are like, I don't know, I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Really, it's not None of that is his fault. Think
about it.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
To that point, Cole had been cruising right first ball,
swinging from the first a bat of the game with
shoey Otani. He's motoram down, his pitch count is ultra low,
and then all of a sudden you're getting extra outs
and we're sitting watching it waiting for the odd couple
to finish and come in. They get to a commercial
break and Rob Parker's like, how.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Many how's are you gonna give him?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
As we're saying the same thing in the back, it's like,
all right, you can get away with it to a degree,
but you know, you just have a comedy of errors.
And again, Rizzo's a guy that's won four goal gloves.
And that's the thing that's the most confusing about all
of it because a lot of times, and you know
this from coaching, there's times when you can hide maybe
a player at first base and look at Frank Thomas.
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You couldn't throw the ball and couldn't really move much,
but he was tall and he saved you in that way,
and he got pretty good at picking the ball out
of the dirt every now and again. But Rizzo's a
decorated guy, like when we talk about the last ten
plus years, he'd probably be the first in terms of
fielding percentage and all these awards and accolades of here's
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how you play the position. And in this pivotal moment,
he and Garrett Cole again a guy on the mound
who would be in that list of Wow, it's a
big game.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I want to this guy.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
They can't communicate because I think later in the broadcast,
right there was a play for the Dodgers where they
said there was audible Will Smith who struggled all over
the place, but in that he had the vocal range
to make sure they communicated exactly how they wanted.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
To hear him.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Now, I could hear Will Smith yelling at him go
to first right where we don't have the audio. Obviously
we're in studios. We're watching the fifth inning. Uh, truly
unfold Uh And like I don't I don't know what
the communication is other than the Garrett Cole point. But
clearly there's a lapse and with Mookie Betts there's no
split second even think about it, right, that's got to
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be rope now to get a different conversation here for
a few and we have we have so many things
to spotlight here in the next forty five minutes, Jason
Smith Mike Harmon live from the tirec dot Com studios
here at Fox Sports Radio. I'll tell you who the
happiest people are right now and the unhappiest people are
right now. And this is not as simple as Dodger
fans and Yankee fans. The happy people right now are
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free agent relief pitchers. The unhappiest people right now are
gonna be free agent starting pitchers because this was a
series and a referendum on what it's like when you
try to have both of those strategies and what works.
Because Dave Roberts and the Dodgers just showed you with
basically two and a half starting pitchers, we navigated the
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entire playoffs. We went with bullpen games.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Didn't always work out for us, but guess what, we
had enough great, high leverage relievers. We went to eight
nine relievers a game to use nine relievers tonight to
win this game over the Yankees starting pitching. Is that
really the kind of investment we need to make, or
do we need to have a bunch of get by
guys when we get to the playoffs? We have high
leverage relievers that are gonna give us all kinds of moments.
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If the Dodgers lost this World Series, it would be well,
look you look at all the bullpen games they had,
and still as talented as that Dodger team is, they
couldn't win the World Series. Why look at all the
bullpen guys. We got to make sure we have enough
starting pitchers. Let's go give Corbin Earns five hundred million dollars.
That's not gonna happen. Now, if you're a free agent
starting pitcher, you've just seen the Dodgers win the World
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Series in a different way. Do we have seen anybody
ever win it before? Because it was the reliance on
a bullpen that was going to be this is how
we're going to do it. It was never a case
of well, we're gonna get seven innings out of Flaherty
in this game and seven innings out of Yamamoto, then
we're gonna get by it.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
It was get us four.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Innings and then our bullpen's coming in and if we're losing,
we have low leverage.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
They kid they had three starters on the on the
roster for the World Series and nine relievers. This is
this is how. This is how it was done for
the Dodgers. If you are a relief pitcher, now you
are Teams are going, oh, we can overpay for a
bunch of good mental relievers. We're not giving the big contract,
but boy, how good we're gonna be. We don't need
to pay all kinds of money for one big starting pitcher.
That's what was at stake in this World Series. You're
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you're a relief pitcher, you are happy as Hellman, you
are popping champagne with the Dodge right now, going I'm
getting I'm getting like maybe ten million dollars a year.
And if you're a starting pitcher, you're like, oh man,
I got it. I gotta hit free. Now this stinks.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Well, you I already knew if you were a top
end starting pitcher, your number of potential destinations was already low,
right because of the mid market, and let's face it,
teams like the White Sox that don't spend or or
Pittsburgh or insert maybe your favorite team here, so that
that shrunk even more. Uh, just doing the quick math
because you know I like to go and do the
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math on the show. Yes, not including the closer of
this game, Bueler and the starter you know Flaherty will
count him as a starter. Fifteen million dollars the total
amount of salary for the pitchers used by the Dodgers
in this world series. That was the total of your bullpen,
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with the high man being Brazier at four point five
million gradol at two point seven. And then you had
several key contributors, Vesia, Trining and Kopik, all making one
million dollars each fifteen million for your bullpen. They even
need tigers and other squads can pay that money.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
They're all going in to the to the to the
front office as one going.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
We all want raises, all twelve of us. What are
they friends?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Or we're gonna just take this office apart, Exit out
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Speaker 3 (15:30):
Your way in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I know your dad too, up, my dad and Fabiana,
they all have to just Soriano's asleep.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
That's true. They doesn't even know the Yankees lost yet.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I will tell you this now yet if you if
you are a Yankee fan, what we're gonna say is
not gonna help you dealing with the pain of the
World Series loss. I'm just gonna say that. But winners First,
the Dodgers win the World Series, obviously, we watch an
absolute thriller. We talked about the Yankee defense and the
play that is going to be the Buckner play for
the Yankees, the non covering of first base with Cole
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and Rizzo that opened up for the five running for
the Dodgers, the Dodgers typical Dodger rally in the eighth
inning with singles and walks and sacrifice flies in the
bottom of the order, getting it done to win the game.
Freddie Freeman, of course winning the MVP because a home
run in each of the four games and then the
big two run single tonight after the Bets played to
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make it five to one that really gave the Dodgers life. Look,
Freddie Freeman, the guy's a Hall of Famer if he
retires tomorrow, he's a Hall of Famer after what he
did in this World Series. I don't think there's any question.
And he still has a long time ago guys an
outside shot at three thousand hits. I mean, but Freddie
is what he done. When you do something like this
in the World Series, you're a Hall of Famer. But
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there's another guy for a couple of minutes. Because what
I don't want to get lost in it, and this
is a guy it's tough for me to talk about
him because he kept me from the World Series.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Is that.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Mookie Betts drives in the eventual World Series winning run
on a sackfe fly to center field to bring in
Tommy Edmond from third base, who had walked earlier, or
it singled rather on a broken bat single earlier in
the eighth inning and it was lost in translation, and
maybe it's going to be more Aaron, judge, what are
you doing? But on the sacrifice fly that tied the game,
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Tommy Edmund tags up from second and gets to third.
Fly ball to center field that's deep enough to for
the key. Hernandez A scored to tie the Yeah, that's
not that. But on luck sacrifice fly, he's able to
get to third. And it wasn't even a really close play,
like judges throw us off line and here's Edmond at third.
Now Otani gets the catcher's interference, which I mean you
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had a Bengo card for Yankee screw ups.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I mean you win.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
But it is huge because Otani we talked about it
a lot earlier, and Frostburg is, you know, flipping us
off still for it.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
How much he struggled.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
So there's no guarantee that that at bat doesn't result
in an out. Now, maybe he flies flies out whatever,
So maybe that run yere now at.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Two outs, which changes everything. But instead you get another
Yankee error.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You do that helps helps me you still had instead
of at second. Yeah, so toany gets the Catcher's interference
and Matt And winds up putting for and who knows
how things would have unfolded differently in a situation. But
Edmund steals third, and he scores easily on the sacrifice
fly to center field. This is a guy again the Mets.
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I had to watch Tommy Edmond lead the Dodgers to
the World Series in the NLCS with eleven hits and
eleven RBI didn't quite have that World Series, but every rally,
every big inning the Dodgers seemed to have, he was
in the middle of. He seemed to be in the
middle with a walk or a single or or some
kind of play the glue play that kept things going.
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And for all the stars on the Dodgers, what did
I tell you was the big reason the Dodgers were
going to win the World Series? Why had him over
the Yankees? Because the supporting players of the Dodgers were
much better than the Yankee supporting players, And not that
Edmund suddenly needed to turn into a super duper star. Broll, Hey,
we need you to be the same guy here in
the World Series that you were in the NLCS. But
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Edmund's a guy that could hit cleanup he was hitting seventh.
He scored two runs tonight. He had a hit tonight.
You know, he had three point thirty in the World Series. Like,
it's guys like Edmund that gave the Dodgers the valued
lead and the advantage over the Yankees. And when you're
looking at guys who are males valuable players, yeah, obviously
Freddie Freeman. But for the entire playoff, I mean Tommy
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Edmund was the Dodgers' best player. Freddie Freeman, Freddy Freeman
coming off the ankle injury, he could barely walk. He
was out of the lineup a couple times in the NLCS.
He did all his damage in the World Series, but
he was really nobody. Nobody was better top to bottom.
Tommy Edmond was the Dodgers' best player in the playoffs.
I think about that, he was their best player, and
it kind of takes this thing out for me knowing that, Okay,
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he still had a really good world It's not like
he had a great NLCS. It disappeared the World Series
like Max Munzi. No, he had a rate NLCS and
he was really good in the World Series.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
He made plays when they mattered.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
To your point, right, five of seventeen overall, hitting two
for four, then two for four, and then he was
zero for two back to back games, and then a
one for five performers tonight. But two runs scored right,
always in the thick of it, because he had a
couple of it bats where you started to feel like,
where was this guy against the Mets? Where was this
guy against me? And you know, I was trying to
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console you his best you know best friends.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Try to do on the radio.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
But the reality is, you know, the law of average,
it says you're not gonna get hit every time. I mean,
he might have used them all up against the Mets,
you don't know, but you know, the advancement to third base,
like it's those little things, right, little fundamentals, all the
stuff that we've talked about and yelled at the Yankees about,
especially in the fifth inning. Never mind, the get him on,
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get him over, get him in didn't exist, and both
teams were pretty bad at that over the course of
the series. For the Dodgers, much of the early damage
in the World Series was all right, it's home runs
are nothing. A lot of guys left on base, I
mean they for the series. I had the stat earlier
was they were seven of like seven to thirty seven
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or something like that, and then the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Seven shut up in a row. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
So not exactly efficient baseball in terms of, you know,
trying to extend and create giant rally innings.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
But Edmund from top to bottom, yeah, you run through it.
He was amazing.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Think with Freeman, you know, for all the heroics at
the plate, the fact that he was able to score
yeah from first, Yeah, what the hell did he have?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
That? Unbelievable. It's faster than he is. What the hell's
going on? One to Freddy's.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Coming for you now with the.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Talk about a Halloween nightmare for New Yorkers right there,
we are.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Going to celebrate the World series story of World Series
stories coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
But I thought it was a Magic now no, no,
now we have to go Magic. He's just at the game. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
He was the first interview on Fox after the game
was over. I think, before they went to anybody on
the field, they interviewed Magic Johnson.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Who shows up at more sporting events. Now him or
Spike Lee?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Well, they were both there tonight. Yeah, but I mean, well,
and Spike's trying to branch out a little bit. Well,
you know the next he was there tonight. But Nick's liberty,
all those thing.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
One of the big subplots of the World Series clearly
was always what's going to happen to Wan Soto who
is now a free agent? Yes, you know, you think
he's gonna get a five hundred million dollar contract.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
What a year he had.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
He wins the Alcs for the Yankees with a home
run for the Ages, and you would think, okay, yeah,
I'm hitting free agency. The World Series is over. It's
an emotional time for the Yankees and for Juan Soda,
and you know, yeah, the guy's.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Going to free agency.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
But normally at this time you say things like, hey,
I love being here.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
We'll see what happened.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
Run.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
This is awesome.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
What what you know? What a great bunch of guys
in my hard is with them right now? He gets
asked about free agency, and you know, the Mets are
a team that it's been rumored they are gonna go
after right away.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
And if you thought you.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Were gonna get a one Soto, I love the Yankees
answer well, instead, you got this.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
The perception that you would rather stay in New York
than go elsewhere.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Is that perception be correct?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
H I don't.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
I don't think so.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
Man.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
I'm really happy well with the CD, with the team,
how these guys do. But at the end of the day,
we will see. We're gonna look out every situation, every
offer that we get in and take a decision from that.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Show me the money. Yeah, who's agent yak fans are
going please tell me that was Ai one? Sodo? Was
that aiy? That can't be one Soto? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah, agent, go ahead, definitely. I'll be open to this
and every single team. I don't have any doors closed.
I'm gonna be available for all thirty teams. Team Scott Boris,
everybody there you go. I mean, look, and it doesn't
look usually add that written stories, you at least get
some sort of hey my thoughts. I mean, look, remember
(24:05):
karat Cole after they lost with Houston. I don't play
here anymore.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
But you don't play here? Ayboy, My contracts is done.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Uh. Soda went on. He was asked about Aaron Judge.
What was it like playing with Judge this season?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Boy? This, this, this might even be worse than the end.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I mean, outside of the fifth, outside of him dropping
that fly ball at a Buck twenty in the series.
I'm really happy with what we did as a duo
this year. It's just incredible.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Okay, okay, good. I really learned a lot of things
from him. That's pretty good. Yeah, I'm gonna take that
to my next step.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
We had a wonderful relationship. I'd like to thank you
for the last three years. We've seen a lot of things,
some great trips, a lot of great dinners shared and conversations.
I'll use this in my next relationship.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Thank you very much, as Berman would announce the story
at ESPN.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Back back back, back, back back back.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Breck mon Soto, God, I mean, I mean, really, you
couldn't be more playing that. Yeah, this was this year.
I'm looking for something else. You get a photoshop, mister,
or I am loving for something else.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I mean, look, you get a photoshop real quick. How
about that? How about that text I said in you
earlier today?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Smith, Oh yeah, yeah, he's so uh. Frostbury sent me
a text early today. You know the picture of Mookie
Bets going in the stands and the fans try I
ripped the ball out of his gloves. So now people
are starting to do crazy stuff with that. And he
sent me one where it's it's Mookie Bets. You know,
he's got the glove up and the two guys have
their hands on it, and the Mookie BET's face is
is House Steinbrenner, and and the guy in the stands
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is uh Steve Cohen, and it's one Soto's head, which
is the ball. And so they're all they're all trying
to It's like, so you have the one guy is Steinbrenner,
the one guy is Cohen, with one Soto in the middle.
But you heard him there, like yeah, the Mets, yeaht
other teams thirty two now And that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Come at me, Bro.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
And that's the thing about this is that nobody would
ever say anything. Of course, you just lose the World Series.
My thoughts are here. Free agency. Everybody understands Baseball's a
business that when you get away from the celebration and
the hugs and the champagne and everything else. Yeah, I'm
gonna do what I want to do for the best
part of myself. Everybody would do that. Everybody understands. But wow,
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right after the game to go, yeah, no, all thirty teams,
I'm open. Everybody call my guy right now, call him right.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Now here to help me with this discussion. I've brought
out a band. It's Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet
Band here here to play.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Turn the page. How about Aaron Judge taking that to
my next step? Taking that to my next step.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
We had a good run.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
I'll cherish those moments together, those many highlights.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Again.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, here's Juan Soto talking about his future.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
I mean, I don't know it was the teams I
want to come after me, but definitely I'll be open
to this and every single team. I don't have every
single thing doors closed or anything like that, so I'm
a were gonna be.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Avails are closed.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
No doors.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
I do appreciate though the doors question does specifically mention
the mets h.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
He's bleeping Abraham, all ten doors are open?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Wow, Bible, let's Joe Wow.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
I mean it was a vicery and biblical proportion. Do
you think for these twenty twenty four d angels Dodge?
Do you think Steve Cohen paid that guy to ask
that questions? Who watched you do? If the Yankees lose,
you go to the press, Yeah, go about them? Actually Cohen,
he was there with a giant press badge on.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
He's pulling, He's pulling off the stuff on his face,
the mask, like he's a Eli Manning.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Dressed up his Chad powers. I'll show you who I am, everybody,
It's me Steve Cohen. Hey want sobt, here's a briefcase
full of waity.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
I got this giant Let me unfold this like I'm
a magician and it's a giant novelty size.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, I mean, that is amazing to hear that from
the guy right after the series is over, right after
it's over. Yeah, Hey, whoever, no, whoever? Man I mean?
And this is because one Soto has done an interviewer two.
He understands what he says and and and what people
are gonna take from it. The guy's been as for
twenty six years old. He's been around a long He
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understands and the fact that he's still right after the
World series just says, I'm out, Hey, if you give
me the most money, maybe, if somebody else gives me
the most money, maybe, Okay, that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
No, I'm sitting there, I'm like, I want to give
him a microphone. You want to talk it out?
Speaker 7 (28:32):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
What was this year?
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Like?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Please explain to me I mean, you would you.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Would think that that a guy like Soto enjoying the spotlight,
because look, he can go to a lot of places
and and I don't know, Look, you don't know what
players look at when they see the life of other superstars. Right,
I'm sure a lot of people thought Bryce Harper going
to Philadelphia, I was not gonna go. But it seems
to be going pretty well for Bryce Harper Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
So maybe.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
But you would think Juan Soto being this kind of
star going to New York, the guy a legend. They'll
give him whatever he wants, especially if it's the Mets,
because I guarantee, I'm not lying. I guarantee you the
Mets are not getting Won Soto. They're not getting him
because the one thing the Yankees will do, and this
is the new Yankees, it doesn't matter, well, we don't
spend a lot of money, we don't do this.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
There is no.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Way, Brian Cashman, the Yankees allow Juan Soto at twenty
six years old in the Superstar to go across town
to the Mets. That is just that is just absolutely
not going to happen. If the Mets want to give
him five hundred million the Yankees will give him six
hundred million. Yeah, and it just comes down to a
check book. Yeah, the Mets can drive the price up.
That's all the Mets are going to do. Because now,
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could the Yankees lose him to another team? Yeah, one
hundred percent. Right, If the Dodgers want to come after
him or somebody else, yeah, no, absolutely they can.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
They they can be outdid.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
But if it's the Mets, they're not because, as Brian
Casher would say, I gotta walk around this town. They're
not gonna have Juan Soto be a daily reminder of
the guy they let get away to watch him be
a superstar for the next decade. It's a absolutely not happen.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
The only way it happens is if dollars aren't the
only thing. And well, Scott Boris is his agent. So
what does that tell you.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Can I still live in the same apartment? Yeah, yeah,
it's a commute.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yeah, we'll send a helicopter to you to bring you
back and forth to Queens. Come on, well, you can
land right of Steve Cohen's landing pad. Fine, you go
right in.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
You could run through the tunnels under the city. Let's
like it's a post apocalyptic movie. We're gonna go to
the tunnel.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
To Chud and the rats.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Let's go time out to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports right now.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
From a guy who, well, let's face.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
It, he's enjoying watching on Fox Sports one the recap
of the MLB postseason and Manny Machado doing interviews with the.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Guys, how'd that make you feel?
Speaker 8 (30:46):
It has a season is recapped, humbling is the word
I would describe. Makes me full of feeling anger. But
I also have to give it to the Dodger fans.
They deserve it. They've gone through a lot and speak
of which, all of that noise around discrediting twenty twenty, well,
this is what Blake Trinon had to say the Dodgers reliever.
(31:06):
After the Dodgers breakthrough and win a full season World
Series with their Game five, seven to six win tonight
against the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
There's been a lot of people that want to discredit
twenty twenty and I don't want to harp on this
a lot, but it's so great to see the guys
that are still here, from them Doc.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
The players front office being.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Able to finally silence the critics on this because every
year has its challenges, everybody has the same playing field.
That's an amazing team we just played. This team has
zero quid on.
Speaker 8 (31:33):
It, zero quit and they win their full first full
season World Series since nineteen eighty eight, thirty six years
ago before I was born. Meanwhile, in the NBA, as
we go right over there now, it is a win
for the Cavs. They improved a five to zero on
the year, and they do it with a win against
the Lakers one thirty four to one ten Bronnie James
(31:53):
scoring his first field goal as an NBA player. Significant
in that one. Pacers won thirty five to one, thirty
two winners against the Celtics in overtime, Pistons overcome the
seventy six ers. Wizards win so to the Knicks one
sixteen to one oh seven. Against the Heat, Carl Anthony
Towns went offensively ballistic forty four points thirteen rebounds.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Bulls win, so do the Nets.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
The Thunder remain perfect one oh five to ninety three
as they take it to the Spurs. Warriors victorious one
oh four to eighty nine. And I can't even see
the Clippers win tonight. But it's a one oh six,
one oh five win, Jason and Mike as I work
it back, two Trailblazers over the Clippers, albeit Norman Powell
for me ucle Brewin did have thirty points. But it's
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just a It's one of those humiliating nights for me, humbling,
little jealous of the Dodger fans because I'll never experience
what they feel.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Thank you, Brian Fenley.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Just really quick to finish on the Yankee before you
get back into the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Coming up next. The headline in the New York Post, Yo,
let's here we are all.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Over all over sub headline. Yankee season ends in heartbreak
as they choke away Game five. A sweep would have
been less painful and perhaps less embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Nights. Yankees, you stick. Congratulations on a job none, but
we won a pennant.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Coming up next. We say this a lot. It's one
of the best lines you can say. How could you
not be romantic about baseball? And boy, do we have
a World Series story for you about one of the
big heroes for the Dodgers. Coming up next, right here,
Jason and Mike.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
This be sure to catch live editions of the Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
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Speaker 1 (33:38):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon Gideap. It is Blue Heaven Tonight, the Dodgers
are world champions of Baseball. They beat the Yankee seven
to six.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
The Dodgers must strike.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Away from a championship.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
From a Puffer celebration to us Your Doctors.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Series, Joe Davis on Big Fox with a call Walker
Buehller pitching the ninth inning, his first career save as
the Dodgers win their eighth championship, holding off the Yankee
seven to six. And look, we've we've covered this story
from a lot of different angles the Dodgers. When we
talked about the Yankees and their defense and the Dodgers
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and did Dave Roberts pitching plan, and Freddie Freeman and
Tommy Edmondham wants soda.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Wants to leave.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
But but just for a second, right, you know, one
of those how can you not be romantic about baseball things?
Is Walker Bueller was once upon a time the next
great Dodger pitcher, right just going back four or five years,
he was going to be the guy that took the
mantle from Kershaw. He was such a great post season pitcher.
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He had the right type of moxie, great stuff, and
then he got hurt and he was hurt for a
long time, and he came back this year, and the
Dodgers were just hoping, well, maybe he comes back and
he's sort of somewhat Walker Buehler, because we have a
lot of injuries right now and he wasn't. And Buehler
was awful when he came back. His era was over
(35:21):
six and I didn't even know if he was going
to be on the postseason roster because clearly he was
not the same guy. But because the Dodgers literally had
nobody else, they had no other starting pitchers, he had
to be on the rosters Flaherty, Yamamoto and Walker Buehler.
And his first game against the Padres not great, had
a really bad inning, and the Dodgers are saying, Okay,
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there is absolutely nobody else. We can't keep throwing bullpen
game two bullpen games back to back, so we gotta
go with Bueller and hope that he does something for us.
And the only reason Walker Buehler was there is because
literally the dug again the Dodgers had nobody else. Then
he gets the NLCS in the pivotal Game three against
the Mets where the Mets and seas momentum by winning
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Game two, and he throws great four innings. But he
throws great, and you can see his breaking pitches have
a lot of bite and snap to them. The Mets
are chasing him, and the Dodgers win Game three and
take control of the series. And then Walker Buehler comes
back in the World Series and he pitches terrific five
more shutout innings against the Yankees, and he looks kind
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of like the Walker Buehler revolt, and in nine innings
he has remade himself so quickly that not only is
he going to be the pitcher in Game seven if
it comes down to it, but the Dodgers turned to
him to close out the Yankees in a one run
game on the road in the ninth inning with the
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World Series and the balance, like, how could you not
be romantic about baseball? Well, that journey for him from
I don't even know if he's going to be on
the team to he's the guy we go to in
the ninth inning to close everything out.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
And Andy McCullough of The Athletic says on Twitter a
few minutes ago, I asked Walker Buehler whose idea it
was for him to pitch tonight. Quote, I'll give you
one guess unquote. So big moment, big opportunity. A guy
that we've talked about with his starts in the postseason,
(37:24):
there flashes of greatness. In the past World Series, he's
been phenomenal. Coming into tonight, he had a point five
ERA and his eighteen innings pitched, and he came in
and he had everything working because the off speed stuff
was just filthy.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
I really you would see that he's got the working back,
He's got what he needs back on his pitches. Now,
maybe he winds up being a closer.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
Now velocity was up, it's ninety seven ninety eight pretty
consistently in is uh what he pitched?
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Throw like twenty two pitches or something.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yeah, we've seen it before, pitchers who were great but
have an injury and they can't pitch what they can,
but they turn into incredible closers. And I wonder if
we just saw the birth tonight of Walker Buehler closer.
And one thing I know, he made a lot of
money in this offseason. Somebody's gonna look at those last
three games that he pitched, the last ten innings he pitched,
and said, yeah, here's twenty five million dollars for next year.
(38:14):
I know he's got a really bad last two three years,
but wow, four innings of shutout ball in the NLCS,
five innings of shutout ball in the World Series, and
you close it out in the ninth inning when everybody's
nerves are all jingle jangly. I mean, that's some kind
of comeback from him to see it, because there was
no reason why you would why it would happen, and
it still happened anyway.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Absolutely immense the moment, just this cast of characters and
how they had to push this together.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Master stroke.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Here he was following the game, talking to the haters.
Oh An Dodgs, those people win the World Series.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
It's everything, man.
Speaker 7 (38:50):
We played since I've been here, we played a lot
of really good baseball. And having gotten it done, having
gotten it done twenty twenty, everybody talked, can't really say
much about it now.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Sucking all for Padre fans.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
I get him credit for another extra six pitches, only sixteen,
but either way, finish the job fantastic.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
I mean, look, you could tell getting a little motional.
There are cursing on to which you become a thing.
But also Hernandez curses on TV. Now walkome Buli curses
on TV.
Speaker 6 (39:19):
I have injuries, self doubt, listening to the LA media
and you know, blowhards like us and coming back to
have these kind of moments including you know, the effort
against your Mets, unbelievable, second last team in baseball yard though,
oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
We're better than the Yankees if you're doing the past.
Who was best? Yet?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Dodger's number one, Mets number two, just like Otani will
be the m v P and then Lindor will be
the unanimous We're both kind, We whoop both yours. We
won more games against you than the Yankees did, so
we're a second.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
We're a second.
Speaker 6 (39:48):
Yeah, but Frostburg, how sweet Dere's Mets Yankees?
Speaker 3 (39:53):
What a path? I just said, I'll fight you for
number two. Ben Allen's coming up next. He wins
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Dave Roberts can hardly watch.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Here's the one two pitch from Bueler got him swinging.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
That's a World Series Flinn for LA.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
They've done it.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
They've finished the job. And give Los Angeles the parade
it's been waiting for. Oh swarm of Dodgers on the
right side of the infield, grown men but children again,
living out dear dream.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
What fuck?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Fox Sports Radio AM five to seventy, Dodgers flagship station
here in Los Angeles. On the call, Congratulations everybody at
AM five to seventy.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
General Manager Don Martin.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Don Martin, who actually was going to pitch in the
tenth inning if it went another inning, he was gonna
come in and go.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
He was gonna have the big belt buckle yep, sure, sure,
dress and everything else.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Ready to go, Preston, ready to go. The Dodgers are
your World Series champions. Seven to six. They come back
from down five to nothing. The Yankees blow the largest
lead in a elimination game in World Series thanks to
their leaky defense. Uh and the Dodgers win it by
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a score of seven to six. And look, you know,
the two biggest criticisms of both of these teams coming
into this, right, two biggest criticisms were Dave Roberts pitching
decisions or whoever was making the pitching decisions about the
bullpen games right.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Whatever, whatever that brain trust was, Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Are you giving away? You gave away Game four? The
baseball God just saying we're not gonna let you do that.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Uh. So you had.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
The the pitching decisions of of of the Dodgers versus
the Yankees fielding, and it was like a back It's
like watching that video of like the two cats that
that that that fight and that they bare they barely,
like like put Paul at each other, like who was
gonna win that?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And and clearly early on Dave Roberts and the Dodger
are winning because the decision looked terrible. Looked absolutely awful
not bringing in your high leverage guys last night in
a close game, and the Dodgers had the lead early, and.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Then the Yankee said, oh no, no, hoh, my beer.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Uh, We're gonna give you the sixth inning where we
make a bunch of errors and mental mistakes, and the
Dodgers come back and tie the game at five apiece,
and you knew at some point somebody was gonna pay right.
The rubber was gonna hit the road for either the
Dodgers pitching. Hey, we've done this bullpen situation for a
long time. Eventually that was gonna come up empty, or
(03:03):
the Yankees' horrendous fielding and base running was going to
be what came up empty. And that turned out to
be what it was. Because, as I've said many times,
it was so frustrating watching the Yankees continue to succeed
through these playoffs when they played bad baseball. I mean,
it tells you how good a team they really are
that they just played horrible baseball. They got bailed out
(03:24):
by some big home runs against the Guardians. The Dodgers
beat them in five, even though they finally had a
night where they hit but it was frustrating watching a
team field the ball, Like again, they need Tom Amansky.
They need Fred McGriff and the big high hat, the
the guy throwing the ball into the trash can at
home plate, not the guy banging the trash can.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
A couple of times too, because they were nine for
forty five with runners in scoring position.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
They need Fred McGriff, pointing to the Yankees going Tom
Amanski gets my full endorsement. Like the Yankees played horrendous
fundamental baseball. They couldn't make the easy plays they had
to make, and it was all magnified. To Aaron Judge
dropping that fly ball is inexcusable. Volpi's throw to third,
I mean that was a really bad des I get
the plays in front of you, but what kind of
(04:09):
throw is that? And Volpi is someone who really he
was the lamar Odom of this series. Every other play
he made. You can't do that at shortstop, but every
other play. I fet boy, that's a good play by Volpey. Oh,
that's a horrible play by Volpi. But it was so
frustrating watching the Yankees play that way and continue to succeed.
And you knew at some point, okay, but That's what
came home to roost for them. They couldn't get past
(04:31):
their own miscues. So even though they lost in five
and it was a series where you could say, all right,
well the Dodgers were better, they were the best team. No,
you found you were trying to find your way into
the series and you made too many self inflicted mistakes.
And you know, for everybody wants to blame Aaron Boone
different reasons. You just watch the Yankees play and you go,
what are you thinking? Defensively? What are you thinking with
(04:51):
these plays? What do you think in Rizzo and Edwa?
What's going on here? The Yankees? It was I feel
like I'm standing up. It was a good night for
baseball that the Dodgers one instead of the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Because if the.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yankees somehow won this World Series playing that badly in
the field, what.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Does that say?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
What does it say about defense? It's the brand that
your moneyball. Hey, his defense does not mapp you are
too big to fail. Defense does not matter?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
What about his defense?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
But Aaron Booth, they coach it up right, I mean,
what's he gonna do? Aaron Judge fly ball right at him,
didn't have to move, not a positioning thing at all.
Nor could you say he lost it in the list
see him take his eyes off and look at.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Him in the second.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Yeah, and so he drops the ball voltpe to some degree,
I'm like, all right, was he trying to see if
he could just fit it in afraid the pop up
of the slide that he didn't throw it into his back?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Maybe?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Either way, that's not the play, even if it's in
front plays a second. Slow guy going first to second
doesn't make that play. And then the rizinal play. Look,
this is a guy with four gold gloves and has
been a runner up like multiple times in his career,
so you expect him to make the right line and
none of that's on and Aaron Boone, nor can he
(06:05):
tell these guys how to hit runners in scoring position.
They were one for ten today, right, A couple of
times they leave the bases loaded, all of it the
comedy of errors. But to your point, as we've watched
them throughout the season, they've been bailed out by the
long ball, been bailed out by big hits, and this
time it came back on them. It was you know
which side was going to have their philosophy fail in
(06:28):
this case? Yet fifth inning. We'll go down in history.
I mean that we always talk about, Hey, there's the
tape that you show your team, right the softball. Would
you not take that tape and just say, all right,
here's three plays and guess what they happened in sequence?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You know, look, and and I know and just that
the Rizzo play is going to be what gets because
that play gets the Yankees out of the inning. Yeah,
if they make the play, it gets them out of
the inning. And every and I talked, I thought that
every time when when you teach a play, and I'd
like going down to the youth, lave I teach, Okay,
if the ball is hit to the sod the pitcher,
you have to go to first base.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
It's got to be an instinct. You can't be late.
You gotta know to go to first pace.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
And then got uncovering you're backing up the catcher like
there's two two fundamental days.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, when when the ball is hit to the right side,
no matter where it is, you have to go to
first base because you don't know where it's gonna go.
And and I get Garrett Cole on that, but it
looked like he had a pretty decent start. Should he
have kept going, obviously, But like I said, he wanted
to send the message to Rizzo that I'm not gonna
get you gotta take it yourself. But Rizzo has to
feel that with much more of a sense of urgency,
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because this was a hey, you got to know where
you are on the field going, Mookie Bets hit this,
I'm far away from the bag, so I'm gonna toss it.
But I also know what if Garrett Cole doesn't get
like you have to take into the beginning happen? And
if he if he feels that more aggressively and hey,
I'm taking I'm moving towards the bag. He beats Mookie
Betts to the bag and instead of a five to
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five game, it's five to nothing, and all right, good
luck because Cole comes back out the next inning pitch
as well. Now you're still chasing five runs. I mean that,
that's where That's why I look and go, that's such
a mental mistake by by Anthony Rizzo, because you have
to be able to know that, all right, I can't
just be lulled in that Okay, he's gonna be here.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
What if he's not here?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I mean that that that stuff that I get mad
about that on the youth of it going, you know,
we've gone over this, you have to get to first.
I know, I know, I can't imagine Aaron Boone in
the in a closeout game in the World Series, going
what the hell are we doing?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
What the hell is that? Well?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I mean, really, Aaron Boone, who I thought was gonna
get fired way before now I actually feel bad for
him tonight because they had to watch in those innings going,
how does I mean It's not his fault judging and
get that fly ball. It's not his fault that Volpie
makes that bad throw. It's not his fault that Garret
Cole and Anthony Rizzo are like, I don't know, I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Really, it's not None of that is his fault. Think
about it.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
To that point, Cole had been cruising right first ball,
swinging from the first a bat of the game with
shoey Otani. He's motoram down, his pitch count is ultra low,
and then all of a sudden you're getting extra outs
and we're sitting watching it waiting for the odd couple
to finish and come in. They get to a commercial
break and Rob Parker's like, how.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Many how's are you gonna give him?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
As we're saying the same thing in the back, it's like,
all right, you can get away with it to a degree,
but you know, you just have a comedy of errors.
And again, Rizzo's a guy that's won four goal gloves.
And that's the thing that's the most confusing about all
of it because a lot of times, and you know
this from coaching, there's times when you can hide maybe
a player at first base and look at Frank Thomas.
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You couldn't throw the ball and couldn't really move much,
but he was tall and he saved you in that way,
and he got pretty good at picking the ball out
of the dirt every now and again. But Rizzo's a
decorated guy, like when we talk about the last ten
plus years, he'd probably be the first in terms of
fielding percentage and all these awards and accolades of here's
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how you play the position. And in this pivotal moment,
he and Garrett Cole again a guy on the mound
who would be in that list of Wow, it's a
big game.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I want to this guy.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
They can't communicate because I think later in the broadcast,
right there was a play for the Dodgers where they
said there was audible Will Smith who struggled all over
the place, but in that he had the vocal range
to make sure they communicated exactly how they wanted.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
To hear him.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Now, I could hear Will Smith yelling at him go
to first right where we don't have the audio. Obviously
we're in studios. We're watching the fifth inning. Uh, truly
unfold Uh And like I don't I don't know what
the communication is other than the Garrett Cole point. But
clearly there's a lapse and with Mookie Betts there's no
split second even think about it, right, that's got to
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be rope now to get a different conversation here for
a few and we have we have so many things
to spotlight here in the next forty five minutes, Jason
Smith Mike Harmon live from the tirec dot Com studios
here at Fox Sports Radio. I'll tell you who the
happiest people are right now and the unhappiest people are
right now. And this is not as simple as Dodger
fans and Yankee fans. The happy people right now are
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free agent relief pitchers. The unhappiest people right now are
gonna be free agent starting pitchers because this was a
series and a referendum on what it's like when you
try to have both of those strategies and what works.
Because Dave Roberts and the Dodgers just showed you with
basically two and a half starting pitchers, we navigated the
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entire playoffs. We went with bullpen games.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Didn't always work out for us, but guess what, we
had enough great, high leverage relievers. We went to eight
nine relievers a game to use nine relievers tonight to
win this game over the Yankees starting pitching. Is that
really the kind of investment we need to make, or
do we need to have a bunch of get by
guys when we get to the playoffs? We have high
leverage relievers that are gonna give us all kinds of moments.
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If the Dodgers lost this World Series, it would be well,
look you look at all the bullpen games they had,
and still as talented as that Dodger team is, they
couldn't win the World Series. Why look at all the
bullpen guys. We got to make sure we have enough
starting pitchers. Let's go give Corbin Earns five hundred million dollars.
That's not gonna happen. Now, if you're a free agent
starting pitcher, you've just seen the Dodgers win the World
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Series in a different way. Do we have seen anybody
ever win it before? Because it was the reliance on
a bullpen that was going to be this is how
we're going to do it. It was never a case
of well, we're gonna get seven innings out of Flaherty
in this game and seven innings out of Yamamoto, then
we're gonna get by it.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
It was get us four.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Innings and then our bullpen's coming in and if we're losing,
we have low leverage.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
They kid they had three starters on the on the
roster for the World Series and nine relievers. This is
this is how. This is how it was done for
the Dodgers. If you are a relief pitcher, now you
are Teams are going, oh, we can overpay for a
bunch of good mental relievers. We're not giving the big contract,
but boy, how good we're gonna be. We don't need
to pay all kinds of money for one big starting pitcher.
That's what was at stake in this World Series. You're
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you're a relief pitcher, you are happy as Hellman, you
are popping champagne with the Dodge right now, going I'm
getting I'm getting like maybe ten million dollars a year.
And if you're a starting pitcher, you're like, oh man,
I got it. I gotta hit free. Now this stinks.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Well, you I already knew if you were a top
end starting pitcher, your number of potential destinations was already low,
right because of the mid market, and let's face it,
teams like the White Sox that don't spend or or
Pittsburgh or insert maybe your favorite team here, so that
that shrunk even more. Uh, just doing the quick math
because you know I like to go and do the
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math on the show. Yes, not including the closer of
this game, Bueler and the starter you know Flaherty will
count him as a starter. Fifteen million dollars the total
amount of salary for the pitchers used by the Dodgers
in this world series. That was the total of your bullpen,
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with the high man being Brazier at four point five
million gradol at two point seven. And then you had
several key contributors, Vesia, Trining and Kopik, all making one
million dollars each fifteen million for your bullpen. They even
need tigers and other squads can pay that money.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
They're all going in to the to the to the
front office as one going.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
We all want raises, all twelve of us. What are
they friends?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Or we're gonna just take this office apart, Exit out
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Speaker 2 (15:06):
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Speaker 3 (15:16):
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Speaker 1 (15:17):
The Jason Smith's Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the Tirack dot Com studios. And wow, do
we have something from Juan Soto coming.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Your way in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I know your dad too, up, my dad and Fabiana,
they all have to just Soriano's asleep.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
That's true. They doesn't even know the Yankees lost yet.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I will tell you this now yet if you if
you are a Yankee fan, what we're gonna say is
not gonna help you dealing with the pain of the
World Series loss. I'm just gonna say that. But winners First,
the Dodgers win the World Series, obviously, we watch an
absolute thriller. We talked about the Yankee defense and the
play that is going to be the Buckner play for
the Yankees, the non covering of first base with Cole
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and Rizzo that opened up for the five running for
the Dodgers, the Dodgers typical Dodger rally in the eighth
inning with singles and walks and sacrifice flies in the
bottom of the order, getting it done to win the game.
Freddie Freeman, of course winning the MVP because a home
run in each of the four games and then the
big two run single tonight after the Bets played to
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make it five to one that really gave the Dodgers life. Look,
Freddie Freeman, the guy's a Hall of Famer if he
retires tomorrow, he's a Hall of Famer after what he
did in this World Series. I don't think there's any question.
And he still has a long time ago guys an
outside shot at three thousand hits. I mean, but Freddie
is what he done. When you do something like this
in the World Series, you're a Hall of Famer. But
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there's another guy for a couple of minutes. Because what
I don't want to get lost in it, and this
is a guy it's tough for me to talk about
him because he kept me from the World Series.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Is that.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Mookie Betts drives in the eventual World Series winning run
on a sackfe fly to center field to bring in
Tommy Edmond from third base, who had walked earlier, or
it singled rather on a broken bat single earlier in
the eighth inning and it was lost in translation, and
maybe it's going to be more Aaron, judge, what are
you doing? But on the sacrifice fly that tied the game,
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Tommy Edmund tags up from second and gets to third.
Fly ball to center field that's deep enough to for
the key. Hernandez A scored to tie the Yeah, that's
not that. But on luck sacrifice fly, he's able to
get to third. And it wasn't even a really close play,
like judges throw us off line and here's Edmond at third.
Now Otani gets the catcher's interference, which I mean you
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had a Bengo card for Yankee screw ups.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I mean you win.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
But it is huge because Otani we talked about it
a lot earlier, and Frostburg is, you know, flipping us
off still for it.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
How much he struggled.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
So there's no guarantee that that at bat doesn't result
in an out. Now, maybe he flies flies out whatever,
So maybe that run yere now at.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Two outs, which changes everything. But instead you get another
Yankee error.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You do that helps helps me you still had instead
of at second. Yeah, so toany gets the Catcher's interference
and Matt And winds up putting for and who knows
how things would have unfolded differently in a situation. But
Edmund steals third, and he scores easily on the sacrifice
fly to center field. This is a guy again the Mets.
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I had to watch Tommy Edmond lead the Dodgers to
the World Series in the NLCS with eleven hits and
eleven RBI didn't quite have that World Series, but every rally,
every big inning the Dodgers seemed to have, he was
in the middle of. He seemed to be in the
middle with a walk or a single or or some
kind of play the glue play that kept things going.
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And for all the stars on the Dodgers, what did
I tell you was the big reason the Dodgers were
going to win the World Series? Why had him over
the Yankees? Because the supporting players of the Dodgers were
much better than the Yankee supporting players, And not that
Edmund suddenly needed to turn into a super duper star. Broll, Hey,
we need you to be the same guy here in
the World Series that you were in the NLCS. But
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Edmund's a guy that could hit cleanup he was hitting seventh.
He scored two runs tonight. He had a hit tonight.
You know, he had three point thirty in the World Series. Like,
it's guys like Edmund that gave the Dodgers the valued
lead and the advantage over the Yankees. And when you're
looking at guys who are males valuable players, yeah, obviously
Freddie Freeman. But for the entire playoff, I mean Tommy
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Edmund was the Dodgers' best player. Freddie Freeman, Freddy Freeman
coming off the ankle injury, he could barely walk. He
was out of the lineup a couple times in the NLCS.
He did all his damage in the World Series, but
he was really nobody. Nobody was better top to bottom.
Tommy Edmond was the Dodgers' best player in the playoffs.
I think about that, he was their best player, and
it kind of takes this thing out for me knowing that, Okay,
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he still had a really good world It's not like
he had a great NLCS. It disappeared the World Series
like Max Munzi. No, he had a rate NLCS and
he was really good in the World Series.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
He made plays when they mattered.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
To your point, right, five of seventeen overall, hitting two
for four, then two for four, and then he was
zero for two back to back games, and then a
one for five performers tonight. But two runs scored right,
always in the thick of it, because he had a
couple of it bats where you started to feel like,
where was this guy against the Mets? Where was this
guy against me? And you know, I was trying to
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console you his best you know best friends.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Try to do on the radio.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
But the reality is, you know, the law of average,
it says you're not gonna get hit every time. I mean,
he might have used them all up against the Mets,
you don't know, but you know, the advancement to third base,
like it's those little things, right, little fundamentals, all the
stuff that we've talked about and yelled at the Yankees about,
especially in the fifth inning. Never mind, the get him on,
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get him over, get him in didn't exist, and both
teams were pretty bad at that over the course of
the series. For the Dodgers, much of the early damage
in the World Series was all right, it's home runs
are nothing. A lot of guys left on base, I
mean they for the series. I had the stat earlier
was they were seven of like seven to thirty seven
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or something like that, and then the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Seven shut up in a row. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
So not exactly efficient baseball in terms of, you know,
trying to extend and create giant rally innings.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
But Edmund from top to bottom, yeah, you run through it.
He was amazing.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Think with Freeman, you know, for all the heroics at
the plate, the fact that he was able to score
yeah from first, Yeah, what the hell did he have?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
That? Unbelievable. It's faster than he is. What the hell's
going on? One to Freddy's.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Coming for you now with the.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Talk about a Halloween nightmare for New Yorkers right there,
we are.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Going to celebrate the World series story of World Series
stories coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
But I thought it was a Magic now no, no,
now we have to go Magic. He's just at the game. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
He was the first interview on Fox after the game
was over. I think, before they went to anybody on
the field, they interviewed Magic Johnson.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Who shows up at more sporting events. Now him or
Spike Lee?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Well, they were both there tonight. Yeah, but I mean, well,
and Spike's trying to branch out a little bit. Well,
you know the next he was there tonight. But Nick's liberty,
all those thing.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
One of the big subplots of the World Series clearly
was always what's going to happen to Wan Soto who
is now a free agent? Yes, you know, you think
he's gonna get a five hundred million dollar contract.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
What a year he had.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
He wins the Alcs for the Yankees with a home
run for the Ages, and you would think, okay, yeah,
I'm hitting free agency. The World Series is over. It's
an emotional time for the Yankees and for Juan Soda,
and you know, yeah, the guy's.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Going to free agency.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
But normally at this time you say things like, hey,
I love being here.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
We'll see what happened.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
Run.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
This is awesome.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
What what you know? What a great bunch of guys
in my hard is with them right now? He gets
asked about free agency, and you know, the Mets are
a team that it's been rumored they are gonna go
after right away.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
And if you thought you.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Were gonna get a one Soto, I love the Yankees
answer well, instead, you got this.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
The perception that you would rather stay in New York
than go elsewhere.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Is that perception be correct?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
H I don't.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
I don't think so.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
Man.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
I'm really happy well with the CD, with the team,
how these guys do. But at the end of the day,
we will see. We're gonna look out every situation, every
offer that we get in and take a decision from that.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Show me the money. Yeah, who's agent yak fans are
going please tell me that was Ai one? Sodo? Was
that aiy? That can't be one Soto? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah, agent, go ahead, definitely. I'll be open to this
and every single team. I don't have any doors closed.
I'm gonna be available for all thirty teams. Team Scott Boris,
everybody there you go. I mean, look, and it doesn't
look usually add that written stories, you at least get
some sort of hey my thoughts. I mean, look, remember
(24:05):
karat Cole after they lost with Houston. I don't play
here anymore.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
But you don't play here? Ayboy, My contracts is done.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Uh. Soda went on. He was asked about Aaron Judge.
What was it like playing with Judge this season?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Boy? This, this, this might even be worse than the end.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I mean, outside of the fifth, outside of him dropping
that fly ball at a Buck twenty in the series.
I'm really happy with what we did as a duo
this year. It's just incredible.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Okay, okay, good. I really learned a lot of things
from him. That's pretty good. Yeah, I'm gonna take that
to my next step.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
We had a wonderful relationship. I'd like to thank you
for the last three years. We've seen a lot of things,
some great trips, a lot of great dinners shared and conversations.
I'll use this in my next relationship.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Thank you very much, as Berman would announce the story
at ESPN.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Back back back, back, back back back.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Breck mon Soto, God, I mean, I mean, really, you
couldn't be more playing that. Yeah, this was this year.
I'm looking for something else. You get a photoshop, mister,
or I am loving for something else.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I mean, look, you get a photoshop real quick. How
about that? How about that text I said in you
earlier today?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Smith, Oh yeah, yeah, he's so uh. Frostbury sent me
a text early today. You know the picture of Mookie
Bets going in the stands and the fans try I
ripped the ball out of his gloves. So now people
are starting to do crazy stuff with that. And he
sent me one where it's it's Mookie Bets. You know,
he's got the glove up and the two guys have
their hands on it, and the Mookie BET's face is
is House Steinbrenner, and and the guy in the stands
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is uh Steve Cohen, and it's one Soto's head, which
is the ball. And so they're all they're all trying
to It's like, so you have the one guy is Steinbrenner,
the one guy is Cohen, with one Soto in the middle.
But you heard him there, like yeah, the Mets, yeaht
other teams thirty two now And that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Come at me, Bro.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
And that's the thing about this is that nobody would
ever say anything. Of course, you just lose the World Series.
My thoughts are here. Free agency. Everybody understands Baseball's a
business that when you get away from the celebration and
the hugs and the champagne and everything else. Yeah, I'm
gonna do what I want to do for the best
part of myself. Everybody would do that. Everybody understands. But wow,
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right after the game to go, yeah, no, all thirty teams,
I'm open. Everybody call my guy right now, call him right.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Now here to help me with this discussion. I've brought
out a band. It's Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet
Band here here to play.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Turn the page. How about Aaron Judge taking that to
my next step? Taking that to my next step.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
We had a good run.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
I'll cherish those moments together, those many highlights.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Again.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, here's Juan Soto talking about his future.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
I mean, I don't know it was the teams I
want to come after me, but definitely I'll be open
to this and every single team. I don't have every
single thing doors closed or anything like that, so I'm
a were gonna be.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Avails are closed.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
No doors.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
I do appreciate though the doors question does specifically mention
the mets h.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
He's bleeping Abraham, all ten doors are open?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Wow, Bible, let's Joe Wow.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
I mean it was a vicery and biblical proportion. Do
you think for these twenty twenty four d angels Dodge?
Do you think Steve Cohen paid that guy to ask
that questions? Who watched you do? If the Yankees lose,
you go to the press, Yeah, go about them? Actually Cohen,
he was there with a giant press badge on.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
He's pulling, He's pulling off the stuff on his face,
the mask, like he's a Eli Manning.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Dressed up his Chad powers. I'll show you who I am, everybody,
It's me Steve Cohen. Hey want sobt, here's a briefcase
full of waity.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
I got this giant Let me unfold this like I'm
a magician and it's a giant novelty size.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, I mean, that is amazing to hear that from
the guy right after the series is over, right after
it's over. Yeah, Hey, whoever, no, whoever? Man I mean?
And this is because one Soto has done an interviewer two.
He understands what he says and and and what people
are gonna take from it. The guy's been as for
twenty six years old. He's been around a long He
(28:16):
understands and the fact that he's still right after the
World series just says, I'm out, Hey, if you give
me the most money, maybe, if somebody else gives me
the most money, maybe, Okay, that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
No, I'm sitting there, I'm like, I want to give
him a microphone. You want to talk it out?
Speaker 7 (28:32):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
What was this year?
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Like?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Please explain to me I mean, you would you.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Would think that that a guy like Soto enjoying the spotlight,
because look, he can go to a lot of places
and and I don't know, Look, you don't know what
players look at when they see the life of other superstars. Right,
I'm sure a lot of people thought Bryce Harper going
to Philadelphia, I was not gonna go. But it seems
to be going pretty well for Bryce Harper Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
So maybe.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
But you would think Juan Soto being this kind of
star going to New York, the guy a legend. They'll
give him whatever he wants, especially if it's the Mets,
because I guarantee, I'm not lying. I guarantee you the
Mets are not getting Won Soto. They're not getting him
because the one thing the Yankees will do, and this
is the new Yankees, it doesn't matter, well, we don't
spend a lot of money, we don't do this.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
There is no.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Way, Brian Cashman, the Yankees allow Juan Soto at twenty
six years old in the Superstar to go across town
to the Mets. That is just that is just absolutely
not going to happen. If the Mets want to give
him five hundred million the Yankees will give him six
hundred million. Yeah, and it just comes down to a
check book. Yeah, the Mets can drive the price up.
That's all the Mets are going to do. Because now,
(29:39):
could the Yankees lose him to another team? Yeah, one
hundred percent. Right, If the Dodgers want to come after
him or somebody else, yeah, no, absolutely they can.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
They they can be outdid.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
But if it's the Mets, they're not because, as Brian
Casher would say, I gotta walk around this town. They're
not gonna have Juan Soto be a daily reminder of
the guy they let get away to watch him be
a superstar for the next decade. It's a absolutely not happen.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
The only way it happens is if dollars aren't the
only thing. And well, Scott Boris is his agent. So
what does that tell you.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Can I still live in the same apartment? Yeah, yeah,
it's a commute.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yeah, we'll send a helicopter to you to bring you
back and forth to Queens. Come on, well, you can
land right of Steve Cohen's landing pad. Fine, you go
right in.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
You could run through the tunnels under the city. Let's
like it's a post apocalyptic movie. We're gonna go to
the tunnel.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
To Chud and the rats.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Let's go time out to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports right now.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
From a guy who, well, let's face.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
It, he's enjoying watching on Fox Sports one the recap
of the MLB postseason and Manny Machado doing interviews with the.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Guys, how'd that make you feel?
Speaker 8 (30:46):
It has a season is recapped, humbling is the word
I would describe. Makes me full of feeling anger. But
I also have to give it to the Dodger fans.
They deserve it. They've gone through a lot and speak
of which, all of that noise around discrediting twenty twenty, well,
this is what Blake Trinon had to say the Dodgers reliever.
(31:06):
After the Dodgers breakthrough and win a full season World
Series with their Game five, seven to six win tonight
against the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
There's been a lot of people that want to discredit
twenty twenty and I don't want to harp on this
a lot, but it's so great to see the guys
that are still here, from them Doc.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
The players front office being.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Able to finally silence the critics on this because every
year has its challenges, everybody has the same playing field.
That's an amazing team we just played. This team has
zero quid on.
Speaker 8 (31:33):
It, zero quit and they win their full first full
season World Series since nineteen eighty eight, thirty six years
ago before I was born. Meanwhile, in the NBA, as
we go right over there now, it is a win
for the Cavs. They improved a five to zero on
the year, and they do it with a win against
the Lakers one thirty four to one ten Bronnie James
(31:53):
scoring his first field goal as an NBA player. Significant
in that one. Pacers won thirty five to one, thirty
two winners against the Celtics in overtime, Pistons overcome the
seventy six ers. Wizards win so to the Knicks one
sixteen to one oh seven. Against the Heat, Carl Anthony
Towns went offensively ballistic forty four points thirteen rebounds.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Bulls win, so do the Nets.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
The Thunder remain perfect one oh five to ninety three
as they take it to the Spurs. Warriors victorious one
oh four to eighty nine. And I can't even see
the Clippers win tonight. But it's a one oh six,
one oh five win, Jason and Mike as I work
it back, two Trailblazers over the Clippers, albeit Norman Powell
for me ucle Brewin did have thirty points. But it's
(32:36):
just a It's one of those humiliating nights for me, humbling,
little jealous of the Dodger fans because I'll never experience
what they feel.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Thank you, Brian Fenley.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Just really quick to finish on the Yankee before you
get back into the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Coming up next. The headline in the New York Post, Yo,
let's here we are all.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Over all over sub headline. Yankee season ends in heartbreak
as they choke away Game five. A sweep would have
been less painful and perhaps less embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Nights. Yankees, you stick. Congratulations on a job none, but
we won a pennant.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Coming up next. We say this a lot. It's one
of the best lines you can say. How could you
not be romantic about baseball? And boy, do we have
a World Series story for you about one of the
big heroes for the Dodgers. Coming up next, right here,
Jason and Mike.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
This be sure to catch live editions of the Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific, Fox.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon Gideap. It is Blue Heaven Tonight, the Dodgers
are world champions of Baseball. They beat the Yankee seven
to six.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
The Dodgers must strike.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Away from a championship.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
From a Puffer celebration to us Your Doctors.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Series, Joe Davis on Big Fox with a call Walker
Buehller pitching the ninth inning, his first career save as
the Dodgers win their eighth championship, holding off the Yankee
seven to six. And look, we've we've covered this story
from a lot of different angles the Dodgers. When we
talked about the Yankees and their defense and the Dodgers
(34:34):
and did Dave Roberts pitching plan, and Freddie Freeman and
Tommy Edmondham wants soda.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Wants to leave.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
But but just for a second, right, you know, one
of those how can you not be romantic about baseball things?
Is Walker Bueller was once upon a time the next
great Dodger pitcher, right just going back four or five years,
he was going to be the guy that took the
mantle from Kershaw. He was such a great post season pitcher.
(35:01):
He had the right type of moxie, great stuff, and
then he got hurt and he was hurt for a
long time, and he came back this year, and the
Dodgers were just hoping, well, maybe he comes back and
he's sort of somewhat Walker Buehler, because we have a
lot of injuries right now and he wasn't. And Buehler
was awful when he came back. His era was over
(35:21):
six and I didn't even know if he was going
to be on the postseason roster because clearly he was
not the same guy. But because the Dodgers literally had
nobody else, they had no other starting pitchers, he had
to be on the rosters Flaherty, Yamamoto and Walker Buehler.
And his first game against the Padres not great, had
a really bad inning, and the Dodgers are saying, Okay,
(35:46):
there is absolutely nobody else. We can't keep throwing bullpen
game two bullpen games back to back, so we gotta
go with Bueller and hope that he does something for us.
And the only reason Walker Buehler was there is because
literally the dug again the Dodgers had nobody else. Then
he gets the NLCS in the pivotal Game three against
the Mets where the Mets and seas momentum by winning
(36:06):
Game two, and he throws great four innings. But he
throws great, and you can see his breaking pitches have
a lot of bite and snap to them. The Mets
are chasing him, and the Dodgers win Game three and
take control of the series. And then Walker Buehler comes
back in the World Series and he pitches terrific five
more shutout innings against the Yankees, and he looks kind
(36:28):
of like the Walker Buehler revolt, and in nine innings
he has remade himself so quickly that not only is
he going to be the pitcher in Game seven if
it comes down to it, but the Dodgers turned to
him to close out the Yankees in a one run
game on the road in the ninth inning with the
(36:49):
World Series and the balance, like, how could you not
be romantic about baseball? Well, that journey for him from
I don't even know if he's going to be on
the team to he's the guy we go to in
the ninth inning to close everything out.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
And Andy McCullough of The Athletic says on Twitter a
few minutes ago, I asked Walker Buehler whose idea it
was for him to pitch tonight. Quote, I'll give you
one guess unquote. So big moment, big opportunity. A guy
that we've talked about with his starts in the postseason,
(37:24):
there flashes of greatness. In the past World Series, he's
been phenomenal. Coming into tonight, he had a point five
ERA and his eighteen innings pitched, and he came in
and he had everything working because the off speed stuff
was just filthy.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
I really you would see that he's got the working back,
He's got what he needs back on his pitches. Now,
maybe he winds up being a closer.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
Now velocity was up, it's ninety seven ninety eight pretty
consistently in is uh what he pitched?
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Throw like twenty two pitches or something.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yeah, we've seen it before, pitchers who were great but
have an injury and they can't pitch what they can,
but they turn into incredible closers. And I wonder if
we just saw the birth tonight of Walker Buehler closer.
And one thing I know, he made a lot of
money in this offseason. Somebody's gonna look at those last
three games that he pitched, the last ten innings he pitched,
and said, yeah, here's twenty five million dollars for next year.
(38:14):
I know he's got a really bad last two three years,
but wow, four innings of shutout ball in the NLCS,
five innings of shutout ball in the World Series, and
you close it out in the ninth inning when everybody's
nerves are all jingle jangly. I mean, that's some kind
of comeback from him to see it, because there was
no reason why you would why it would happen, and
it still happened anyway.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Absolutely immense the moment, just this cast of characters and
how they had to push this together.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Master stroke.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Here he was following the game, talking to the haters.
Oh An Dodgs, those people win the World Series.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
It's everything, man.
Speaker 7 (38:50):
We played since I've been here, we played a lot
of really good baseball. And having gotten it done, having
gotten it done twenty twenty, everybody talked, can't really say
much about it now.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Sucking all for Padre fans.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
I get him credit for another extra six pitches, only sixteen,
but either way, finish the job fantastic.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
I mean, look, you could tell getting a little motional.
There are cursing on to which you become a thing.
But also Hernandez curses on TV. Now walkome Buli curses
on TV.
Speaker 6 (39:19):
I have injuries, self doubt, listening to the LA media
and you know, blowhards like us and coming back to
have these kind of moments including you know, the effort
against your Mets, unbelievable, second last team in baseball yard though,
oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
We're better than the Yankees if you're doing the past.
Who was best? Yet?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Dodger's number one, Mets number two, just like Otani will
be the m v P and then Lindor will be
the unanimous We're both kind, We whoop both yours. We
won more games against you than the Yankees did, so
we're a second.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
We're a second.
Speaker 6 (39:48):
Yeah, but Frostburg, how sweet Dere's Mets Yankees?
Speaker 3 (39:53):
What a path? I just said, I'll fight you for
number two. Ben Allen's coming up next. He wins
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