October 12, 2023 • 38 mins
In Hour 4 of tonight’s edition of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, the guys continue to dissect the Dodgers playoff woes, and react to Dave Roberts’ comments regarding the format changes that have been made in the postseason. The guys also talk about the alleged Big Foot spotting in Colorado, pitch some new ideas for the MLB playoff format, the play of the day and so much more!
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shocking sweep, eliminate the Dodgers in three games. Dodgers never
had a lead. Starting pitchers at an era of twenty.
Mookie Betts didn't get a hit, Freddie Freeman had one hit,
(01:00):
leaving anything out Mike.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
The middle relievers pitched well, yeah, no that the middle
relievers did a good job. Ryan Pepia will be ready
for opening Day, I'll tell you then I hit a
nerve there.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Well kind of did.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Because the Diamondbacks x account now you know, formerly twitter
on x having some fun with the Dodgers Twitter now
x account. So on October fourth, the Diamondbacks advanced to
the nld S, you know, winning their their first round series,
and they put out a tweet that said we're moving
(01:38):
on hashtag embraced the chaos, which is what the Diamondbacks
are using, is their their slogan, embraced it.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Say listen to the show. I've been saying that forever,
embraced the chaos. That's been a mantra of the show
going on a decade.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
How many households do you think say, yeah, we're like that,
we embraced the chaos. Yeah, the chaos. So they put
embrace the chaos. The Dodgers execunt quote tweeted that and
that said we'll see you soon at d Backs.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Okay, all right, no, fine, nice.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Well, the Diamondbacks Twitter account just quote tweeted the Dodgers
saying we'll see you soon. D Backs by saying we'll
see you next season Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Oh, there's really no comeback if you're the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
What else to do?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
No, just get that little guy. I remember the the
Derek Jeter, the little kid tipping his cap. Just send
that gift and be done with it. No season's over.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It is it is.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
It's stunning.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
But really, at this point, can you say it's unexpected
because we've seen this from the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
How many times now? How many times have we seen them.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Find a way to get into the playoffs and they
look like they're the overwhelming favorite, they're this or or
this year that at least they looked like they were
number two, to the to the Braves, but they were close,
and they find a way. That why they really disappoint.
They didn't hit here, they didn't pitch here, they didn't
do that. They find a way. I mean, we shouldn't
be surprised at this. I think I think every year
you should pick the Dodgers to not win, and then
you all right, hey, I'm picking the dog. Wait, you're
(03:04):
not picking the dog? Yes, why would you do that?
Look at the last twelve years outside of the COVID year,
they've not one.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I'm not picking the Dodgers found the overwhelming favorites.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
They're the best roster no, I'm not picking them because
they just can't win well.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
But coming into the playoffs, you know, one of the
grand concerns was, and we talked about it at length,
we can go have them pull the audio and have
it read back, uh, you know, the transcripts and all.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
If I'm not to have it read back to me.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Starting pitching was going to be a massive question for
this squad, right, I mean that that was obvious. You know.
The other concern was that you would find, you know,
the bad penny, bad apple whatever you want to go
out and you know, one bad apple spoils the whole
damn bunch kind of thing as you go through into
the number of relievers that you would need to get
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to by the fact that you've built things and you
now have the expectation that your starters ain't given you
but four to five innings most if you're lucky. I said, ain't.
I don't normally yet ain't in on the show. That's
how I said, Fine, you could do that, But I mean,
that's how salty anytime you say ain't.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I'm gonna say, that's a degree from Northwestern That's what
I'm gonna say.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
You know what, But it's become u common usage anymore. Right,
It's like all these things that people use so inappropriately
that they just finally acquiescence it. Yeah, added to the dictionary,
have ad it. It means the exact opposite of what
they're trying to say. But yeah, go ahead, you know
the uh yeah, I'm not even gonna go into it
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any deeper. But for the for the Dodgers, it's it's
the same thing, right, betting odds, and the answer is
always going to be someone else, someone else, someone else,
because they find a way to for the warts to
show at the worst time. And again the starters. You know,
we heard the in the update, the Mookie Bets quote.
(04:55):
You know they pay the other guys too. That's such
a cop out and such cowardice. That's not paying tribute,
that's trying to just dance and around the fact that
you didn't get your job done in this series.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
So let's hear from Dave Roberts, Dodger manager who is
always gonna get all the blame no matter what the
Dodgers do. Dave robertson Dave Roberts could not show up
and he would get the blame. Although then you're talking
about a manager not showing up. But no matter what,
he's gonna be the guy that gets the blame. And
I will say this, he has always carried himself with class.
He's always answered the questions. And every time the Dodgers
fall short, it's his fault. It's never Kershaw's fault. It's
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Dave Roberts faults. Never the bullpen's fault, it's Dave Roberts fault.
It's always Dave Roberts. Well, I think now what people
are seeing is that, oh boy, maybe it's not Dave
Roberts fault, because what did you expect him to do? Right?
He put out the lineup that even put out every
day over the year. He pitched the guys who have
been pitching all year. You can only play the guys
on your team, right, And every single bullpen move he
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made was a good one. Right. I don't see how
you can sit back and say, oh, it's Dave Roberts fault.
Every time the Rodgers fall short in the playoffs before this,
I get it. He makes really weird play moves with
the bullpen. He does, he makes it all the time.
But in this series, it was a starting pitching right,
and he went to the bullpen, and maybe some guys
(06:13):
weren't happy being taken out of the game, but the
bullpen pitched great.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
The bullpen.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Dave Robertson is up and go, hey, all you guys
that think guys suck, what go I do with a bullpen?
I brought it all the right guys. Now, don't ask
me about the hitting and the starting pitching. But I
brought it all the right guys. I mean, sometimes you
have to look and say, all right, it's just the
fact that we didn't we didn't perform on the field.
You know, managers aren't gonna win a lot of games
in Major League Baseball. They're just not. They're gonna get guy,
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They're gonna get players in the position to win games.
That's what a manager does. Yes, he makes big decisions.
He decided, but if the pitchers that he can bring
in a pitcher from the bullpen, But if that pitcher
doesn't make a pitch, manage it didn't throw it right.
So it's it's difficult for Dave roberts But he's gonna
say something here in his postgame press conference. It's gonna
(06:58):
make you stop and go, wait, what did he just say?
So Let's listen to Dave Roberts. Here. He is from
just a couple of minutes ago meeting the media talking
about the Dodgers getting knocked out of the playoffs at
the hands of the Diamondbacks. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I just want to say, I just want to congratulate Tory, Mike,
the entire Diamondbacks organization. You know, they had those guys,
Tory had those guys ready to play.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
You know, you look at the game, the series, they
outplayed us, and there's no other spin to it. And
I tipped my head to those guys and wish them
well as far as our clubhouse. It's just a lot
of you know, disappointment, and I believe in every one
of those guys. And you know, with baseball, that team
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over there outplayed us, and so, you know, I just
really don't know what to say. You know, I can
answer questions about the game itself, but the bottom line
is that you know, they outplayed us in every facet
of the game.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Jack and then Barry Dave, what do you think happened
to Lance in that inning? And did you was there
consideration to come out to get him after one of
the earlier home runs or just kind of how did
that play out?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
No, you know, I thought, you know, you throw two scoreless.
I thought he was mixing well. And then he gives
up the homer to Perdomo, and then then he gets
a grounder and then the Markete homer, So you know,
you're still in the third inning, two zero. Then he
gets a fam I think on a six to three,
four to three something like that. So you know you've
got two outs and you know, a low pitch count,
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and figure that this run of right hand hitters, you know,
you've got to be able to navigate it somewhat with
two outs, nobody on base, and then then two homers later,
you're down for zero. So you know, I had some
guys ready obviously, but I'm just you know, I can't
predict the future. So it's like I try to not
(08:52):
be reaction reactionary and get ahead of things, but I
just can't predict the future. And so, you know, the
way he was on the baseball, I don't I didn't
expect that.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
I think back to back years, you have really good
regular seasons, an early exit. I know playoff baseball can
be a crapshoot, but does it feel like there's something
that's been missing in these postseasons, some sort of something
about this format, this environment that you guys have struggled
with the last couple of years.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
You know, honestly, I can't even you know, there's some
things with the format that you know, people can dissect
or whatever, but the bottom line is that, you know,
the last two years, we've got out played in the postseason.
And you know, it doesn't matter if it was a
seven game series. You know, we lost the first three games.
And so for me, I've got to do a better
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job of, you know, figuring out a way to get
our guys prepared for the postseason. And so I'll own that.
You know, I think we've got great players. You know,
I've got to figure out a way to you know,
get these guys prepared for whatever format, whatever series. So yeah,
the regular season, I think we do a great job,
but uh, you know, the last couple of postseasons, it
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just hasn't gone well for us, and so you know,
I got to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Okay, stop right there.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Okay, hang on, He's saying great things all the way through.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Look, I gotta do a better job of figuring out
how to get our guys prepared for the postseason. Okay,
I get that that that's a very damning statement to make,
to say, I gotta figure out a better way to
get us prepared for the postseason. Because you've been the
manager for the last decade. You've been in the postseason
every year. I would think with having ten twelve shots
at it, you would have figured it out by now.
But no. But okay, so I get that. I'd also like.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
To think that they're damn professionals and should understand what
the playoffs are all about. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Look, still seaball hits.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah no, And I get that. But but you know,
could that be Dave Roberts falling on the sword a
little bit? Sure? And I think that's why the players
like him, because that that's something that really Dave robert
I mean, I.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Gotta get bad he to coach him up. And so
I get that.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
And the format the way he answers it, Jason is
isn't nearly as bad and as cold as it reads.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, but the thing is, I got it.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
But that but see, but that's what what I what
I come down to us is I gotta get these
guys prepared for whatever format.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
And I wait, the format gives you problems?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Well, no, I think he was just but I think
he responded to the way the guy asked the question, right,
because he used the word format in the question. So
I think he included it in the answer just to
specifically address, you know, without getting mad, right, because Dave
Roberts isn't fiery angry guy because you know, you know,
(11:33):
whatever format whatever. Like, if he takes a different tone there, like,
he could have really just kind of squashed it. But
because he answered it that way, I think he was
just pushing the word back into right. It's the old
active listening thing is whatever that format is, whatever they
we got to play better.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, but he said it a couple of times because
in the beginning he's he heard him with his with
with him with his same when he said, you know,
and there's a lot of talk about the format, so
we kind of opened the door to that himself. The wait,
there's talk about the format? How is there talk about
the format? And then he goes back to it at
the end. I gotta get the guys ready for whatever
format there is. And I'm saying, okay, so this is
twice now in the span of like a minute where
(12:13):
he talks about the format maybe being an issue. I mean,
come on, man, nobody else has problem with the format.
No one's ever blamed the format of going forward of
how this I mean no, I mean that's that really
shocked me, because I think it's more than just I'm
using the question back. He made sure to go back
to that twice, and he opened the door in the
beginning by saying, I know there's questions about the format.
(12:34):
Well there are. I didn't know there was questions about it.
I know that that fans talk about do I like
the three game series or do I like being off
a week versus having to play? Did the Dodgers really
want to play three games that they didn't have to?
Did they really want to have to try to win
three games with Kershaw and Miller and Lance Linn, Or
did they want to, Hey, let's get to the NLDS
and then we only have to win one series here
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before we get to the NLCS with Kershaw and Miller
and Lint. So no, I think.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
You're interpretation spicier.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I look at it differently.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I mean, he made sure to say that talk about
the format a couple of times and basically say when
you say got to get these guys prepared for whatever format,
what do you mean? I don't understand. What do you
mean whatever form? There's a difference in your preparation from
three games to five games. There's a difference your preparaight
from five games to seven games.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I mean, well, you didn't have enough starting pitchers where
whether you played two, three, seven, you could.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Have played game series and would pitched in game one.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Right, we would have gone back to uh, you know,
the Chicago Black Socks best of nine, going all the
way back to baseball. Then, uh, you didn't have enough
starting pitching, so you know you had plenty of time
to set your rotation. All of those things come into
play in this one. We'll agree to disagree. I see
your interpretation, and certainly, circling back to it, I think
(13:54):
he gave himself a little bit of an out by
the way, the whatever that reporters of his article or
video clipper what was gonna be. I think he played
right into all Right, I know what yangle you're taking.
So here you're you're gonna complain about the format. So
I give you what you want and then you guys
(14:15):
take what you will over here, yeah. In in the end,
he can't pitch or hit, right. I mean, guys have
to do their jobs as a manager of a major
league baseball team.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Really what.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Day to day. I mean, let's let's go down to
brass tacks other than keeping guys heads, you know, get
your head, get your head in the game, high school
musical wise, I mean, what are you doing tactically Differently,
You're playing a blackjack card most of the time, with
a lot of the decisions. Some of it's been taken
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out because there's no double switches and stuff anymore. So
it's it's for for Dave Roberts. He's the guy that's
gonna take all the Anna miss He and and the
front office, and I think the players themselves for one
hundred win team are going to kind of get left
off the hook here.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Now, look the format, the format, his performat formats the
new performance before the format.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You want to blame the You know how you get
ready for the format. You get better starting pitchers. That's
what you do. And you do that.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
In July and the Dodgers tried, right, they tried to
get Rodriguez from the Tigers. He didn't want to come,
and that was the.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Bet was lance Lynn show you what the marketplace was.
And because you didn't buy in earlier, now you had
the Trevor Bauer situation, which is a whole other story.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You where you thought you were gonna have him and
you didn't. You thought that Walker Bueller was coming back
and you didn't.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Plans right, We talked.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
We talked about this Mike in the in the the
early part of the season for the Dodgers, where you know,
hope is not a great pitching strategy. No, you can't
say hope. I hope at the deadline we get Walker
Bueller back. I hope Hurius turns it around. I hope
Kershaw's health. Hope is not a strategy, and that seemed
to be the Dodgers pitching strategy. They tried to fix
it the deadline. It didn't work, and thus this is
(16:12):
where they are. But you can't see her telling me
that's the only way, because all the format gave us
difficult to well, we need we need. If Boogie Bets
had more time off, I mean he beat it. That's
the only way you say the format the form is
by getting better starting pitchers. John Paulmerrosi mentioned it last
hour you're seeing the teams that are going out and
going out easily don't have the starting pitching that is needed.
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And that's the Dodgers. But for the for the format,
the format? Is it? The format? You're asking me about
the format? Really?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
The formats?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I I really. I look at that and I shake
my head and go, wow, this is hey. Let's try
to misdirect here and talk.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
He gave him an out man. Look, if it's the
old reporter gives you an out right, if he gives
you a yes, no question, you just smile and say
thank you, all right, I don't have to expound. Yes, no, okay,
what do you.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Think of the format?
Speaker 8 (17:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
The format screwed us?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Let's talk about the format.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
I gotta get guys ready for get this the format
and once we know.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
The format, like he's in a room with them and
they're all watching a big PowerPoint presence. Okay, So this
series is best of five? What does that mean? Ching,
Look right here, this means the team needs to win
three out of five games. It doesn't matter what three
games they win, any three games win. Yes in the
back Clayton. Yeah, so we could win one, three and
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five and move on. Yes, we can win two, three,
and four, Yes, what about three, four and five? Yes, wait,
it doesn't matter, Yes, any of those games we can win.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
What But here's the big thing that if some reporter
in that room really wanted to be the smart ass,
you know, like maybe you or I would have been,
would have been, Hey, Dave, regardless of format, you gotta
get that first win, right, I'll hang up and listen
for your answer.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
That's what screwed them.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
The format that had that required them to win again
required Oh wait, there's no format that just gives us
a win.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
And we walk in and there's no format okay.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Hey, And then you know what, great job in the
regular season, they did a lot of good work. The
guys in the bullpen did a hell of a job.
They cobbled together. Clayton Kershaw had a great regular season.
You know what, once you flipped October and we get
into playoff baseball, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Now. I will tell you there is one format thing
that after.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Seeing the way the playoffs have gone the last couple
of years, specially watching the Dodgers go out the way
they did it, there is one format change that I
would absolutely be for the big change it needs to
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Live from the tiraq dot Com Studio. Now, I gotta
say this before I get some idea. You want to
make sure you want to reward the big division winner
teams over the eighty four win teams like the Diamondbacks
who squeak into the playoffs. I got it. But did
you see, Mike, that we near speaking of on the
West coast? Uh? Potentially Bigfoot was spotted. Saw that people
(20:20):
took video from a train at the go in Colorado
and far away in the distance, people taking video and
there was some kind of animals that were walking around,
like gazelle's or so. I don't know what they are,
prong horned sheep, I don't know. And then there's a
there's a figure standing up that looks very hairy walking
around and it's still trending on Twitter now that hey,
(20:41):
there's video of big This could be Bigfoot and bigfoots
in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I just liked that you came back with hey, since
we do have Brian Fendley here. But yeah, I saw
that video. I think this is something we need to explore.
It's been a while since we talked Bigfoot on the show.
That was one of the staples in the early going
here of our show on Fox Sport Radio.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Uh, you know, and look, And I gotta say, I
I am some things I'm just a sucker for and
I will always look.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
At even though I nausea.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I will always click on stories and stuff where it
looks like Bigfoot could be spotted. I I just always,
I just always had this fascination with Bigfoot from when
I was a little kid, probably because I was a
big fan of the six million Dollar Man and Sasquatch
was like, you know, his villain.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Slash friend, and I love Sasquatch.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
He was so scary. I've always had this fascination with Bigfoot,
and anytime, hey, there's video of Bigfoot, all let me see.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Oh I got it, ties back to the six million
Dollar Man.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I will always look at Bigfoot, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
But the one thing I want to know is, Okay,
here here's the video that gets out from people on
a train. Hey, look it's bigfoot. Okay if if and
I'm just saying because you know, I don't want to
be the the you know Debbie Downer about you maybe
bigfoots out there. But if you think that's bigfoot, don't
you zoom in on your phone to see if it's
big foot? Why why do you why do you keep
(22:02):
it really far away? Like why do you get looked?
This could be bigfoot? Can you zoom in? No, can't
do it.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
And of course if you're zoom in on the internet,
you can't see anything. Wouldn't you just zoom it? Phones
are really.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Really high tech now you could hit that zoom while
you're recording. You just put your thumb and four finger
on your screen and just hey, let's let's let's zoom
that out of it. Look, and there's a really clear
picture of bigfoot. If you think it's bigfoot, if it's
really bigfoot, don't you do that? Don't you zoom in
and go, hey, look it's bigfoot, right, don't you show?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Here he is walking and you're on the train. You're
on a train. It's moving, but it's not moving so
unbelievably fast that oh there goes Bigfoot. No, it looks
like you had plenty of time. Hey, we could have
zoomed right in and see Bigfoot. But no, no, we
just have the far away look.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Maybe you're working on an old phone.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I was playing snake and then I tried to get
on and it was just very difficult.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I really it was really really hard.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Well, I have just I have always I like, if
I see Bigfoot trending, I'm like, oh, I need five minutes.
I need five minutes. I gotta see what's going on. Yeah,
I mean, and there was supposedly a video of NeSSI
about a week all. This is Nessie. That looks like
a tire. No, no, no, it's a lot that's munster.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Oh okay, great, great, great, But Bigfoot, Man, I'm.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Telling you, we almost had Bigfoot in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Next level stuff. We do have a winner of the lottery, evidently, though. Yeah,
we've sixty miles from where we're located right now here
in the Fox Sports Radio studios. What Northwest?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
What if Bigfoot won the lottery? Like, how cool would
that be? If we find one we find out it's Bigfoot,
and two he's the winner of the one point seventy
five billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
What what if you were able to zoom in on
that Bigfoot video and he was wearing a watch, just
like when the Simpsons had Bigfoot, and the Simpsons predicted
that Bigfoot be wearing a watch, and he's and.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
He's holding up and he's holding up the the the
car and he's got look the winning numbers. He's playing
the winning numbers on it.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
And then you you interview the store clerk. Hey, do
you sell a ticket to Bigfoot?
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah, he comes in all the time. Yeah, he's made
a regular customer.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Usually comes in guzzles a big you know, monster energy drink,
maybe like sometimes five or six of them. Leaves, always
tips me. Always really nice guy, you know, helped me
when the bathroom door was stuck a couple of weeks. Yeah,
Bigfoot comes in all the time. He got great dude,
love Bigfoot. Yeah all the other He brought in his
kids once and oh my god, they're adorable little bigfoots.
They were all right here, but they cause a lot
of damage and they kind of knock stuff over, so
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he doesn't bring him in as offen.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
But boy, they're adorable, man. They run around, they look
like little Ewoks. It's just so awesome.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
It's and look at this cute little song the performed
for us Bigot, and all of a sudden they're running
around and singing Young Number.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
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Speaker 1 (24:58):
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Speaker 3 (25:01):
All right, so now from Bigfoot to the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So you've seen some talk and it's really interesting because
Jason Stewart, who produced the Doug Gottlieb Show, has talked
about this a lot the last few days. Where you
look into the playoff field in Major League Baseball and
teams get in that get one hundred wins, and teams
get in that have eighty four wins like the Diamondbacks.
And I told you last hour, hey, this should be
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every team strategy. Build a five hundred team going into
every regular season. Then at the deadline, if you're five hundred,
you make the trades to shore up your weaknesses, and
that's how you go into the playoffs. Because you're looking
at teams now in the NLCS with the Diamondbacks who
won eighty four games, Padres and Phillies won eighty seven
and eighty nine last year, you just got.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
To be five hundred.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
But I do understand that, is it really fair that
a team that wins one hundred games and you're playing
against team with eighty four games, it's really no more
advantage than you have one more home game than they do, right,
And then that that's what it is. And I understand
that because there should be something, because baseball's got to
do something to make the regular season worth something or
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it's gonna turn out like the NBA. The NBA is
finding that out now that people don't care about the
regular season. We're just gonna try to get in the playoffs,
even if we're in a playing round and we're gonna play.
It's why players are sitting out. It's why going for
it in the regular season to get that number one seed.
It doesn't mean what it used to. There's no more,
there's less emphasis on the regular season.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
We heard that earlier.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
We'll have that coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
That great story out of the NBA, But in Major
League Baseball it's kind of the same thing. Hey, all right,
you want the regular season to mean something. You don't
want everybody to strive to have, you know, eighty five
eighty seven wins.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
So how about this?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Now, this is really radical, and I don't know that
I don't know that every team would agree to this,
but this is probably the only fair way to do it,
to really give a team with a hunt with more wins,
the higher seeded team the advantage. And you want to
argue math, well, what if the higher seeded team has
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ninety two wins the other one has ninety one wins? Sorry,
ninety two is more than ninety one, right, you want
to reward that. And now you're in a situation where
because you're letting more teams in the playoffs with the
extra wild card. Yeah, you're giving a team with it
has an eighty five win regular season just as good
of a chance to make it into the LDS and LCS.
It's not that they can't be as good, they can't
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win games. It's well, you need to do something in
the regular season that portends to your reward in the playoffs.
So I would say this is that you get to
the LDS, and you could do it for all three rounds,
but you get to the Divisional Series and you get
to the League Championship Series and the higher seed gets
every game at home best of seven, every game in
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the higher seeded park. Because that rewards a team. You
can go for that in the regular season. Man, we
want all the games to be at home. We want
to go for that number one seed, or a team, hey,
we want to go for that two seed because if
the one seed loses, we get all the games at
our park. It makes it a little bit more difficult
when you have to win every game on the road.
But it's not so fearg into Major League Baseball teams
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because you play three and four game series all the time.
This is just a little bit more than that. It's
the playoffs, so you'll go four or five, and you
know in the LCS go seven. But if you make
that the case, you solve the issue of having teams
that win in the regular season, that win big. You
give them as big an advantage as you can without
making it unfair. Everybody still makes in the playoffs, you
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gotta win. We gotta win on the road, yeah, but
win more games. You want games at home. You gotta
you gotta win. You gotta win on the road. Yeah,
you gotta win in the regular season. That's probably the
fairest way, because you can't control the chaos of winning
and starting pitchers. And look at what happened here to
the Dodgers, and what yes is. It doesn't look great
the one hundred win Dodgers and the eighty four win Diamondbacks.
It's it's one more game the Dodgers got at home now.
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But that's you can do. You can do that with
the with the home games and give them all to
the higher seeded team. And that's probably the best thing
you can do that can balance the scale a little
bit and give that advantage of the team that wins
bigger in the regular season.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I mean, if you're gonna do it in the wildcard round, right,
you get a three game home series, right, if you
need to use all three, that the number one, number
two seed should get some extra benefit. I got no
issue with it. How about we just say this, screw it,
make it, take it.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You win, you get the next game at your place.
That's right, you lose, it goes back to the other person.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Right. Wow, that's a lot of travel, man, that's back.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And forth, bing bing.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
In other words, you're never gonna get this right and fairer.
That is really where I was getting to with this.
We could keep tickering with this till the cows go or.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You make it, you lose it. Hey, we won game one,
Now we got to go over there park for Game
two because they lost.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Well, you know, I was just taking it to the streets,
you know, and doing my best Doobie Brothers and also
just basketball right and make it. Take it. You got
to stop me and get a steal or I to
miss a shot. Look, we can keep tankering it. Certainly
the higher seeds are excited because there'll be more ticket revenue,
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more concession sales, more opportunity to sell you their wares.
I got no problem with it. You know that's fine.
There should be some reward to it, and there's really
nothing else you can compensate them with. Here's another draft pick.
It's not the NFL, right, as some would argue with
the draft, shouldn't the teams that actually get deep into
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the playoffs and towards the Super Bowl shouldn't they be
rewarded with better draft choices. No, they like parody, like chaos.
You get a whole lot of nothing. You get one
fewer month off on a summer, like vacation in another hemisphere.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
No.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
So for baseball, if you want to go to this format,
I got no problem with it. Smith that you can
have at it. I don't think it's gonna help if
you still can't pitch. Your hint, No, it's not. But
what it's going to do is at least it's gonna
get Hey, you won more games in the regular season.
This is your reward, because you know, because you could say, okay,
you're rewards.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
You don't play in the first round.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Okay, But as we've seen now with the sample size,
there's just as much to glean, is just as much.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
To get advantage from sitting as there is to play.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
But there's there's there's no two years.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
You know, it's two years.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
And and look the Dodgers, you put a giant asterisk
on it because they came in with a flawed roster.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
But you know, but you know, letting all these teams,
letting the number of teams in that you are you know,
you're gonna have a bunch of eighties something win teams.
Teams aren't You're not gonna have a bunch of teams. Well,
the number one seed one hundred and eight and the
bottom seed one ninety seven. Like, that's not gonna happen.
You know that teams with eighty some odd wins are
gonna get in, and the hottest teams always win. You're
never gonna stop hot teams from winning. You're just saying, okay,
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in the playoffs, how do you reward the team the
better them all?
Speaker 5 (31:52):
To?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Right? I mean you're talking about planet April, May, June, July, August, September.
I'm just got you know, because you're talking about seven
months of baseball to say one more home game?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Really and really, how worth it is that? It's not?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
It's not you can't look in the NFL, I get you. Look,
home field advantage is a big deal. You play one game. No,
that's a big deal. Look, you need to do something
a little bit, a little bit for those teams to chance.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Hadn't we done that for to the Seven's been that forever?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Right?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
But now that you're letting more teams in the play
you're allowing more mediocre ish teams in the mediocre team right, No,
I get it, but you're giving them It's just like
the NCAA tournament where you let all these mid major
teams in and it doesn't mean the mid major teams
can't beat the big you can't. But you let these
teams in from the smaller conferences. And what did they
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do during the regular season to get in? They won
a conference that's not as good as the Power five conferences.
So did they really deserve that chance to get in
over over a team that finished sixth in the ACC
that was twenty and ten.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Well they played.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
If you took this team from the Horizon League and
put them in the ACC, they're lucky if they win
ten or eleven games, But yet you're putting them into
the into the postseason. You need to do something in
the regular season to deserve that chance.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
You're the guy that wants to take away the home
game for the seven to ten division winner.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Two sure, sure, Sure, I want to. I want to
reward excellence. That's what I want to do. Mike Carmon.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
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Live from the ti iraq dot Com Studios. Congratulations of
the Arizona Diamondbacks onto the NLCS after they beat the
Dodgers four to two, hitting four home runs in the
third inning.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Off of Lance Lynn.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
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the game now that the Dodgers are out. But first
let's celebrate the play of the day, and it's home
run King lance Lynn.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
A high drive deep right field, back at the warning track,
back at the wall to tomorrow hurrold Up Perdomo.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
One nothing Diamondbacks.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Here on the third you see a one oh get,
a high flight ball deep right field. No doubt about
this two nothing Diamondbacks home run Marte third of the postseason,
two nothing Diamondbacks. As he came sent it drive the left,
that ball, my go.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
That bolls gone hop out.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
This sitate home run, out of the home run out
of the home run three nothing Diamondbacks walkers first to
the postseason couch two and two on Marino. On the
pitch from Lynn can a shot to let centerfield? Bet,
she goes, Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Can't be?
Speaker 6 (35:12):
Marino gets it out anyway, and it's four Navy diamond bets.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
It's a home run party.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Who could last for more?
Speaker 3 (35:21):
It's a home run party.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Wow, get some oingo boingo into end the night as well.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Good for you, my goodness, oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Four home runs in the second and then given up
by Lance Lynn and the Dodgers go out swept by
the Diamondbacks. Now this gets to the Otani question. Does
this failure by the Dodgers make them more or less
likely to sign show?
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Hey Otani?
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Well this is where I say everybody's gonna love this,
because hey, Dodger fans are gonna go more likely.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
We need to go out and get a star.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
We watch Mookie bets, not get a bleeping hitting Freddy
Freeman got I don't want to see him dancing at
second basymore because nobody got on base. We need a
guy that we know is gonna hit home runs and eventually,
hopefully someday maybe pitch for us. And then there's the
other side of it, which is a side I'm on
that says, no, you didn't hit. But you need at
least four new starting pitchers next year if you're the Dodgers,
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not one, not two, not three, four, four, because you're
gonna count on Clayton Kershaw coming back at thirty six
and hey, eventually Clayton's gonna run out of magic. Maybe
he ran out of magic here in Game one against
the Diamondbacks. Arius is not gonna be on the team again.
Neither is lance Lynn Walker. Buehler may be able to
come back, but you can't count on him. He's a
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guy that whatever you get from him, you get from him.
So you need four new starting pitcher if you're gonna
do anything. If you saw anything in the series so far,
you've seen the teams have tried to trot out less
than stellar starting pitchers and bullpen games. They are going home.
The Dodgers' money, honestly, is better spent four new start
Take that money you're gonna give to Otani five hundred
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seven hundred million dollars and go get.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Four new starting pitches. Wait a minute, that's what the Dodgers.
Should you were just saying you didn't want to go
get starting pitchers till the All Star break and the
Troy deadline.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Oh no, I'm not saying you got to go get
four superstar pitchers, but you gotta get four guys can
get You have to get four more.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
No no, no, no, no no no, you don't go get.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
You gotta go.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
You got a little bit higher than go for for
lance Linn. You go, lance Linn, you go.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
And then they laid down or four starting pitchers you
know what look like Look they wanted Rodriguez a the
deadline from the Tigers. Guys like that, right, not an
incredibly great starting pitcher, but someone who's gonna be pretty
good and give you a lot of innings that you
can rely on. Right, that's you gotta do because those
guys are gonna be expensive, but you can you can
get four of those guys.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Wouldn't have given a.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Toy and giving the offensive ineptitude in these series, maybe
you actually have to be willing to get rid of
one of those prospects to go get one of those
big arms along the way as well. So, yeah, the
long offseason has begun. Wow, just sorrow in Los Angeles.
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way tire buying should be well. The Diamondbacks, in a
shocking sweep, eliminate the Dodgers in three games. Dodgers never
had a lead. Starting pitchers at an era of twenty.
Mookie Betts didn't get a hit, Freddie Freeman had one hit,
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leaving anything out Mike.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
The middle relievers pitched well, yeah, no that the middle
relievers did a good job. Ryan Pepia will be ready
for opening Day, I'll tell you then I hit a
nerve there.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Well kind of did.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Because the Diamondbacks x account now you know, formerly twitter
on x having some fun with the Dodgers Twitter now
x account. So on October fourth, the Diamondbacks advanced to
the nld S, you know, winning their their first round series,
and they put out a tweet that said we're moving
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on hashtag embraced the chaos, which is what the Diamondbacks
are using, is their their slogan, embraced it.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Say listen to the show. I've been saying that forever,
embraced the chaos. That's been a mantra of the show
going on a decade.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
How many households do you think say, yeah, we're like that,
we embraced the chaos. Yeah, the chaos. So they put
embrace the chaos. The Dodgers execunt quote tweeted that and
that said we'll see you soon at d Backs.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Okay, all right, no, fine, nice.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Well, the Diamondbacks Twitter account just quote tweeted the Dodgers
saying we'll see you soon. D Backs by saying we'll
see you next season Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Oh, there's really no comeback if you're the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
What else to do?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
No, just get that little guy. I remember the the
Derek Jeter, the little kid tipping his cap. Just send
that gift and be done with it. No season's over.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It is it is.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
It's stunning.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
But really, at this point, can you say it's unexpected
because we've seen this from the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
How many times now? How many times have we seen them.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Find a way to get into the playoffs and they
look like they're the overwhelming favorite, they're this or or
this year that at least they looked like they were
number two, to the to the Braves, but they were close,
and they find a way. That why they really disappoint.
They didn't hit here, they didn't pitch here, they didn't
do that. They find a way. I mean, we shouldn't
be surprised at this. I think I think every year
you should pick the Dodgers to not win, and then
you all right, hey, I'm picking the dog. Wait, you're
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not picking the dog? Yes, why would you do that?
Look at the last twelve years outside of the COVID year,
they've not one.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I'm not picking the Dodgers found the overwhelming favorites.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
They're the best roster no, I'm not picking them because
they just can't win well.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
But coming into the playoffs, you know, one of the
grand concerns was, and we talked about it at length,
we can go have them pull the audio and have
it read back, uh, you know, the transcripts and all.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
If I'm not to have it read back to me.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Starting pitching was going to be a massive question for
this squad, right, I mean that that was obvious. You know.
The other concern was that you would find, you know,
the bad penny, bad apple whatever you want to go
out and you know, one bad apple spoils the whole
damn bunch kind of thing as you go through into
the number of relievers that you would need to get
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to by the fact that you've built things and you
now have the expectation that your starters ain't given you
but four to five innings most if you're lucky. I said, ain't.
I don't normally yet ain't in on the show. That's
how I said, Fine, you could do that, But I mean,
that's how salty anytime you say ain't.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I'm gonna say, that's a degree from Northwestern That's what
I'm gonna say.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
You know what, But it's become u common usage anymore. Right,
It's like all these things that people use so inappropriately
that they just finally acquiescence it. Yeah, added to the dictionary,
have ad it. It means the exact opposite of what
they're trying to say. But yeah, go ahead, you know
the uh yeah, I'm not even gonna go into it
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any deeper. But for the for the Dodgers, it's it's
the same thing, right, betting odds, and the answer is
always going to be someone else, someone else, someone else,
because they find a way to for the warts to
show at the worst time. And again the starters. You know,
we heard the in the update, the Mookie Bets quote.
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You know they pay the other guys too. That's such
a cop out and such cowardice. That's not paying tribute,
that's trying to just dance and around the fact that
you didn't get your job done in this series.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
So let's hear from Dave Roberts, Dodger manager who is
always gonna get all the blame no matter what the
Dodgers do. Dave robertson Dave Roberts could not show up
and he would get the blame. Although then you're talking
about a manager not showing up. But no matter what,
he's gonna be the guy that gets the blame. And
I will say this, he has always carried himself with class.
He's always answered the questions. And every time the Dodgers
fall short, it's his fault. It's never Kershaw's fault. It's
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Dave Roberts faults. Never the bullpen's fault, it's Dave Roberts fault.
It's always Dave Roberts. Well, I think now what people
are seeing is that, oh boy, maybe it's not Dave
Roberts fault, because what did you expect him to do? Right?
He put out the lineup that even put out every
day over the year. He pitched the guys who have
been pitching all year. You can only play the guys
on your team, right, And every single bullpen move he
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made was a good one. Right. I don't see how
you can sit back and say, oh, it's Dave Roberts fault.
Every time the Rodgers fall short in the playoffs before this,
I get it. He makes really weird play moves with
the bullpen. He does, he makes it all the time.
But in this series, it was a starting pitching right,
and he went to the bullpen, and maybe some guys
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weren't happy being taken out of the game, but the
bullpen pitched great.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
The bullpen.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Dave Robertson is up and go, hey, all you guys
that think guys suck, what go I do with a bullpen?
I brought it all the right guys. Now, don't ask
me about the hitting and the starting pitching. But I
brought it all the right guys. I mean, sometimes you
have to look and say, all right, it's just the
fact that we didn't we didn't perform on the field.
You know, managers aren't gonna win a lot of games
in Major League Baseball. They're just not. They're gonna get guy,
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They're gonna get players in the position to win games.
That's what a manager does. Yes, he makes big decisions.
He decided, but if the pitchers that he can bring
in a pitcher from the bullpen, But if that pitcher
doesn't make a pitch, manage it didn't throw it right.
So it's it's difficult for Dave roberts But he's gonna
say something here in his postgame press conference. It's gonna
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make you stop and go, wait, what did he just say?
So Let's listen to Dave Roberts. Here. He is from
just a couple of minutes ago meeting the media talking
about the Dodgers getting knocked out of the playoffs at
the hands of the Diamondbacks. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I just want to say, I just want to congratulate Tory, Mike,
the entire Diamondbacks organization. You know, they had those guys,
Tory had those guys ready to play.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
You know, you look at the game, the series, they
outplayed us, and there's no other spin to it. And
I tipped my head to those guys and wish them
well as far as our clubhouse. It's just a lot
of you know, disappointment, and I believe in every one
of those guys. And you know, with baseball, that team
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over there outplayed us, and so, you know, I just
really don't know what to say. You know, I can
answer questions about the game itself, but the bottom line
is that you know, they outplayed us in every facet
of the game.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Jack and then Barry Dave, what do you think happened
to Lance in that inning? And did you was there
consideration to come out to get him after one of
the earlier home runs or just kind of how did
that play out?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
No, you know, I thought, you know, you throw two scoreless.
I thought he was mixing well. And then he gives
up the homer to Perdomo, and then then he gets
a grounder and then the Markete homer, So you know,
you're still in the third inning, two zero. Then he
gets a fam I think on a six to three,
four to three something like that. So you know you've
got two outs and you know, a low pitch count,
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and figure that this run of right hand hitters, you know,
you've got to be able to navigate it somewhat with
two outs, nobody on base, and then then two homers later,
you're down for zero. So you know, I had some
guys ready obviously, but I'm just you know, I can't
predict the future. So it's like I try to not
(08:52):
be reaction reactionary and get ahead of things, but I
just can't predict the future. And so, you know, the
way he was on the baseball, I don't I didn't
expect that.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
I think back to back years, you have really good
regular seasons, an early exit. I know playoff baseball can
be a crapshoot, but does it feel like there's something
that's been missing in these postseasons, some sort of something
about this format, this environment that you guys have struggled
with the last couple of years.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
You know, honestly, I can't even you know, there's some
things with the format that you know, people can dissect
or whatever, but the bottom line is that, you know,
the last two years, we've got out played in the postseason.
And you know, it doesn't matter if it was a
seven game series. You know, we lost the first three games.
And so for me, I've got to do a better
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job of, you know, figuring out a way to get
our guys prepared for the postseason. And so I'll own that.
You know, I think we've got great players. You know,
I've got to figure out a way to you know,
get these guys prepared for whatever format, whatever series. So yeah,
the regular season, I think we do a great job,
but uh, you know, the last couple of postseasons, it
(10:03):
just hasn't gone well for us, and so you know,
I got to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Okay, stop right there.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Okay, hang on, He's saying great things all the way through.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Look, I gotta do a better job of figuring out
how to get our guys prepared for the postseason. Okay,
I get that that that's a very damning statement to make,
to say, I gotta figure out a better way to
get us prepared for the postseason. Because you've been the
manager for the last decade. You've been in the postseason
every year. I would think with having ten twelve shots
at it, you would have figured it out by now.
But no. But okay, so I get that. I'd also like.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
To think that they're damn professionals and should understand what
the playoffs are all about. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Look, still seaball hits.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah no, And I get that. But but you know,
could that be Dave Roberts falling on the sword a
little bit? Sure? And I think that's why the players
like him, because that that's something that really Dave robert
I mean, I.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Gotta get bad he to coach him up. And so
I get that.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
And the format the way he answers it, Jason is
isn't nearly as bad and as cold as it reads.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, but the thing is, I got it.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
But that but see, but that's what what I what
I come down to us is I gotta get these
guys prepared for whatever format.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
And I wait, the format gives you problems?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Well, no, I think he was just but I think
he responded to the way the guy asked the question, right,
because he used the word format in the question. So
I think he included it in the answer just to
specifically address, you know, without getting mad, right, because Dave
Roberts isn't fiery angry guy because you know, you know,
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whatever format whatever. Like, if he takes a different tone there, like,
he could have really just kind of squashed it. But
because he answered it that way, I think he was
just pushing the word back into right. It's the old
active listening thing is whatever that format is, whatever they
we got to play better.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, but he said it a couple of times because
in the beginning he's he heard him with his with
with him with his same when he said, you know,
and there's a lot of talk about the format, so
we kind of opened the door to that himself. The wait,
there's talk about the format? How is there talk about
the format? And then he goes back to it at
the end. I gotta get the guys ready for whatever
format there is. And I'm saying, okay, so this is
twice now in the span of like a minute where
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he talks about the format maybe being an issue. I mean,
come on, man, nobody else has problem with the format.
No one's ever blamed the format of going forward of
how this I mean no, I mean that's that really
shocked me, because I think it's more than just I'm
using the question back. He made sure to go back
to that twice, and he opened the door in the
beginning by saying, I know there's questions about the format.
(12:34):
Well there are. I didn't know there was questions about it.
I know that that fans talk about do I like
the three game series or do I like being off
a week versus having to play? Did the Dodgers really
want to play three games that they didn't have to?
Did they really want to have to try to win
three games with Kershaw and Miller and Lance Linn, Or
did they want to, Hey, let's get to the NLDS
and then we only have to win one series here
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before we get to the NLCS with Kershaw and Miller
and Lint. So no, I think.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
You're interpretation spicier.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I look at it differently.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I mean, he made sure to say that talk about
the format a couple of times and basically say when
you say got to get these guys prepared for whatever format,
what do you mean? I don't understand. What do you
mean whatever form? There's a difference in your preparation from
three games to five games. There's a difference your preparaight
from five games to seven games.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I mean, well, you didn't have enough starting pitchers where
whether you played two, three, seven, you could.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Have played game series and would pitched in game one.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Right, we would have gone back to uh, you know,
the Chicago Black Socks best of nine, going all the
way back to baseball. Then, uh, you didn't have enough
starting pitching, so you know you had plenty of time
to set your rotation. All of those things come into
play in this one. We'll agree to disagree. I see
your interpretation, and certainly, circling back to it, I think
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he gave himself a little bit of an out by
the way, the whatever that reporters of his article or
video clipper what was gonna be. I think he played
right into all Right, I know what yangle you're taking.
So here you're you're gonna complain about the format. So
I give you what you want and then you guys
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take what you will over here, yeah. In in the end,
he can't pitch or hit, right. I mean, guys have
to do their jobs as a manager of a major
league baseball team.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Really what.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Day to day. I mean, let's let's go down to
brass tacks other than keeping guys heads, you know, get
your head, get your head in the game, high school
musical wise, I mean, what are you doing tactically Differently,
You're playing a blackjack card most of the time, with
a lot of the decisions. Some of it's been taken
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out because there's no double switches and stuff anymore. So
it's it's for for Dave Roberts. He's the guy that's
gonna take all the Anna miss He and and the
front office, and I think the players themselves for one
hundred win team are going to kind of get left
off the hook here.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Now, look the format, the format, his performat formats the
new performance before the format.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You want to blame the You know how you get
ready for the format. You get better starting pitchers. That's
what you do. And you do that.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
In July and the Dodgers tried, right, they tried to
get Rodriguez from the Tigers. He didn't want to come,
and that was the.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Bet was lance Lynn show you what the marketplace was.
And because you didn't buy in earlier, now you had
the Trevor Bauer situation, which is a whole other story.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You where you thought you were gonna have him and
you didn't. You thought that Walker Bueller was coming back
and you didn't.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Plans right, We talked.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
We talked about this Mike in the in the the
early part of the season for the Dodgers, where you know,
hope is not a great pitching strategy. No, you can't
say hope. I hope at the deadline we get Walker
Bueller back. I hope Hurius turns it around. I hope
Kershaw's health. Hope is not a strategy, and that seemed
to be the Dodgers pitching strategy. They tried to fix
it the deadline. It didn't work, and thus this is
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where they are. But you can't see her telling me
that's the only way, because all the format gave us
difficult to well, we need we need. If Boogie Bets
had more time off, I mean he beat it. That's
the only way you say the format the form is
by getting better starting pitchers. John Paulmerrosi mentioned it last
hour you're seeing the teams that are going out and
going out easily don't have the starting pitching that is needed.
(16:33):
And that's the Dodgers. But for the for the format,
the format? Is it? The format? You're asking me about
the format? Really?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
The formats?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I I really. I look at that and I shake
my head and go, wow, this is hey. Let's try
to misdirect here and talk.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
He gave him an out man. Look, if it's the
old reporter gives you an out right, if he gives
you a yes, no question, you just smile and say
thank you, all right, I don't have to expound. Yes, no, okay,
what do you.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Think of the format?
Speaker 8 (17:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
The format screwed us?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Let's talk about the format.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
I gotta get guys ready for get this the format
and once we know.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
The format, like he's in a room with them and
they're all watching a big PowerPoint presence. Okay, So this
series is best of five? What does that mean? Ching,
Look right here, this means the team needs to win
three out of five games. It doesn't matter what three
games they win, any three games win. Yes in the
back Clayton. Yeah, so we could win one, three and
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five and move on. Yes, we can win two, three,
and four, Yes, what about three, four and five? Yes, wait,
it doesn't matter, Yes, any of those games we can win.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
What But here's the big thing that if some reporter
in that room really wanted to be the smart ass,
you know, like maybe you or I would have been,
would have been, Hey, Dave, regardless of format, you gotta
get that first win, right, I'll hang up and listen
for your answer.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
That's what screwed them.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
The format that had that required them to win again
required Oh wait, there's no format that just gives us
a win.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
And we walk in and there's no format okay.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Hey, And then you know what, great job in the
regular season, they did a lot of good work. The
guys in the bullpen did a hell of a job.
They cobbled together. Clayton Kershaw had a great regular season.
You know what, once you flipped October and we get
into playoff baseball, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Now. I will tell you there is one format thing
that after.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Seeing the way the playoffs have gone the last couple
of years, specially watching the Dodgers go out the way
they did it, there is one format change that I
would absolutely be for the big change it needs to
happen to the MLB playoffs. We got a cop come
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Speaker 3 (19:18):
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Speaker 1 (19:55):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the tiraq dot Com Studio. Now, I gotta
say this before I get some idea. You want to
make sure you want to reward the big division winner
teams over the eighty four win teams like the Diamondbacks
who squeak into the playoffs. I got it. But did
you see, Mike, that we near speaking of on the
West coast? Uh? Potentially Bigfoot was spotted. Saw that people
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took video from a train at the go in Colorado
and far away in the distance, people taking video and
there was some kind of animals that were walking around,
like gazelle's or so. I don't know what they are,
prong horned sheep, I don't know. And then there's a
there's a figure standing up that looks very hairy walking
around and it's still trending on Twitter now that hey,
(20:41):
there's video of big This could be Bigfoot and bigfoots
in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I just liked that you came back with hey, since
we do have Brian Fendley here. But yeah, I saw
that video. I think this is something we need to explore.
It's been a while since we talked Bigfoot on the show.
That was one of the staples in the early going
here of our show on Fox Sport Radio.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Uh, you know, and look, And I gotta say, I
I am some things I'm just a sucker for and
I will always look.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
At even though I nausea.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I will always click on stories and stuff where it
looks like Bigfoot could be spotted. I I just always,
I just always had this fascination with Bigfoot from when
I was a little kid, probably because I was a
big fan of the six million Dollar Man and Sasquatch
was like, you know, his villain.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Slash friend, and I love Sasquatch.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
He was so scary. I've always had this fascination with Bigfoot,
and anytime, hey, there's video of Bigfoot, all let me see.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Oh I got it, ties back to the six million
Dollar Man.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I will always look at Bigfoot, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
But the one thing I want to know is, Okay,
here here's the video that gets out from people on
a train. Hey, look it's bigfoot. Okay if if and
I'm just saying because you know, I don't want to
be the the you know Debbie Downer about you maybe
bigfoots out there. But if you think that's bigfoot, don't
you zoom in on your phone to see if it's
big foot? Why why do you why do you keep
(22:02):
it really far away? Like why do you get looked?
This could be bigfoot? Can you zoom in? No, can't
do it.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
And of course if you're zoom in on the internet,
you can't see anything. Wouldn't you just zoom it? Phones
are really.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Really high tech now you could hit that zoom while
you're recording. You just put your thumb and four finger
on your screen and just hey, let's let's let's zoom
that out of it. Look, and there's a really clear
picture of bigfoot. If you think it's bigfoot, if it's
really bigfoot, don't you do that? Don't you zoom in
and go, hey, look it's bigfoot, right, don't you show?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Here he is walking and you're on the train. You're
on a train. It's moving, but it's not moving so
unbelievably fast that oh there goes Bigfoot. No, it looks
like you had plenty of time. Hey, we could have
zoomed right in and see Bigfoot. But no, no, we
just have the far away look.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Maybe you're working on an old phone.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I was playing snake and then I tried to get
on and it was just very difficult.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I really it was really really hard.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Well, I have just I have always I like, if
I see Bigfoot trending, I'm like, oh, I need five minutes.
I need five minutes. I gotta see what's going on. Yeah,
I mean, and there was supposedly a video of NeSSI
about a week all. This is Nessie. That looks like
a tire. No, no, no, it's a lot that's munster.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Oh okay, great, great, great, But Bigfoot, Man, I'm.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Telling you, we almost had Bigfoot in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Next level stuff. We do have a winner of the lottery, evidently, though. Yeah,
we've sixty miles from where we're located right now here
in the Fox Sports Radio studios. What Northwest?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
What if Bigfoot won the lottery? Like, how cool would
that be? If we find one we find out it's Bigfoot,
and two he's the winner of the one point seventy
five billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
What what if you were able to zoom in on
that Bigfoot video and he was wearing a watch, just
like when the Simpsons had Bigfoot, and the Simpsons predicted
that Bigfoot be wearing a watch, and he's and.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
He's holding up and he's holding up the the the
car and he's got look the winning numbers. He's playing
the winning numbers on it.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
And then you you interview the store clerk. Hey, do
you sell a ticket to Bigfoot?
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah, he comes in all the time. Yeah, he's made
a regular customer.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Usually comes in guzzles a big you know, monster energy drink,
maybe like sometimes five or six of them. Leaves, always
tips me. Always really nice guy, you know, helped me
when the bathroom door was stuck a couple of weeks. Yeah,
Bigfoot comes in all the time. He got great dude,
love Bigfoot. Yeah all the other He brought in his
kids once and oh my god, they're adorable little bigfoots.
They were all right here, but they cause a lot
of damage and they kind of knock stuff over, so
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he doesn't bring him in as offen.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
But boy, they're adorable, man. They run around, they look
like little Ewoks. It's just so awesome.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
It's and look at this cute little song the performed
for us Bigot, and all of a sudden they're running
around and singing Young Number.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Exit Out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike carbt lie the TIREC
dot Com Studio.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
All right, so now from Bigfoot to the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So you've seen some talk and it's really interesting because
Jason Stewart, who produced the Doug Gottlieb Show, has talked
about this a lot the last few days. Where you
look into the playoff field in Major League Baseball and
teams get in that get one hundred wins, and teams
get in that have eighty four wins like the Diamondbacks.
And I told you last hour, hey, this should be
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every team strategy. Build a five hundred team going into
every regular season. Then at the deadline, if you're five hundred,
you make the trades to shore up your weaknesses, and
that's how you go into the playoffs. Because you're looking
at teams now in the NLCS with the Diamondbacks who
won eighty four games, Padres and Phillies won eighty seven
and eighty nine last year, you just got.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
To be five hundred.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
But I do understand that, is it really fair that
a team that wins one hundred games and you're playing
against team with eighty four games, it's really no more
advantage than you have one more home game than they do, right,
And then that that's what it is. And I understand
that because there should be something, because baseball's got to
do something to make the regular season worth something or
(26:09):
it's gonna turn out like the NBA. The NBA is
finding that out now that people don't care about the
regular season. We're just gonna try to get in the playoffs,
even if we're in a playing round and we're gonna play.
It's why players are sitting out. It's why going for
it in the regular season to get that number one seed.
It doesn't mean what it used to. There's no more,
there's less emphasis on the regular season.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
We heard that earlier.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
We'll have that coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
That great story out of the NBA, But in Major
League Baseball it's kind of the same thing. Hey, all right,
you want the regular season to mean something. You don't
want everybody to strive to have, you know, eighty five
eighty seven wins.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
So how about this?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Now, this is really radical, and I don't know that
I don't know that every team would agree to this,
but this is probably the only fair way to do it,
to really give a team with a hunt with more wins,
the higher seeded team the advantage. And you want to
argue math, well, what if the higher seeded team has
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ninety two wins the other one has ninety one wins? Sorry,
ninety two is more than ninety one, right, you want
to reward that. And now you're in a situation where
because you're letting more teams in the playoffs with the
extra wild card. Yeah, you're giving a team with it
has an eighty five win regular season just as good
of a chance to make it into the LDS and LCS.
It's not that they can't be as good, they can't
(27:26):
win games. It's well, you need to do something in
the regular season that portends to your reward in the playoffs.
So I would say this is that you get to
the LDS, and you could do it for all three rounds,
but you get to the Divisional Series and you get
to the League Championship Series and the higher seed gets
every game at home best of seven, every game in
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the higher seeded park. Because that rewards a team. You
can go for that in the regular season. Man, we
want all the games to be at home. We want
to go for that number one seed, or a team, hey,
we want to go for that two seed because if
the one seed loses, we get all the games at
our park. It makes it a little bit more difficult
when you have to win every game on the road.
But it's not so fearg into Major League Baseball teams
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because you play three and four game series all the time.
This is just a little bit more than that. It's
the playoffs, so you'll go four or five, and you
know in the LCS go seven. But if you make
that the case, you solve the issue of having teams
that win in the regular season, that win big. You
give them as big an advantage as you can without
making it unfair. Everybody still makes in the playoffs, you
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gotta win. We gotta win on the road, yeah, but
win more games. You want games at home. You gotta
you gotta win. You gotta win on the road. Yeah,
you gotta win in the regular season. That's probably the
fairest way, because you can't control the chaos of winning
and starting pitchers. And look at what happened here to
the Dodgers, and what yes is. It doesn't look great
the one hundred win Dodgers and the eighty four win Diamondbacks.
It's it's one more game the Dodgers got at home now.
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But that's you can do. You can do that with
the with the home games and give them all to
the higher seeded team. And that's probably the best thing
you can do that can balance the scale a little
bit and give that advantage of the team that wins
bigger in the regular season.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I mean, if you're gonna do it in the wildcard round, right,
you get a three game home series, right, if you
need to use all three, that the number one, number
two seed should get some extra benefit. I got no
issue with it. How about we just say this, screw it,
make it, take it.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You win, you get the next game at your place.
That's right, you lose, it goes back to the other person.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Right. Wow, that's a lot of travel, man, that's back.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And forth, bing bing.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
In other words, you're never gonna get this right and fairer.
That is really where I was getting to with this.
We could keep tickering with this till the cows go or.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You make it, you lose it. Hey, we won game one,
Now we got to go over there park for Game
two because they lost.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Well, you know, I was just taking it to the streets,
you know, and doing my best Doobie Brothers and also
just basketball right and make it. Take it. You got
to stop me and get a steal or I to
miss a shot. Look, we can keep tankering it. Certainly
the higher seeds are excited because there'll be more ticket revenue,
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more concession sales, more opportunity to sell you their wares.
I got no problem with it. You know that's fine.
There should be some reward to it, and there's really
nothing else you can compensate them with. Here's another draft pick.
It's not the NFL, right, as some would argue with
the draft, shouldn't the teams that actually get deep into
(30:31):
the playoffs and towards the Super Bowl shouldn't they be
rewarded with better draft choices. No, they like parody, like chaos.
You get a whole lot of nothing. You get one
fewer month off on a summer, like vacation in another hemisphere.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
No.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
So for baseball, if you want to go to this format,
I got no problem with it. Smith that you can
have at it. I don't think it's gonna help if
you still can't pitch. Your hint, No, it's not. But
what it's going to do is at least it's gonna
get Hey, you won more games in the regular season.
This is your reward, because you know, because you could say, okay,
you're rewards.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
You don't play in the first round.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Okay, But as we've seen now with the sample size,
there's just as much to glean, is just as much.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
To get advantage from sitting as there is to play.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
But there's there's there's no two years.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
You know, it's two years.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
And and look the Dodgers, you put a giant asterisk
on it because they came in with a flawed roster.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
But you know, but you know, letting all these teams,
letting the number of teams in that you are you know,
you're gonna have a bunch of eighties something win teams.
Teams aren't You're not gonna have a bunch of teams. Well,
the number one seed one hundred and eight and the
bottom seed one ninety seven. Like, that's not gonna happen.
You know that teams with eighty some odd wins are
gonna get in, and the hottest teams always win. You're
never gonna stop hot teams from winning. You're just saying, okay,
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in the playoffs, how do you reward the team the
better them all?
Speaker 5 (31:52):
To?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Right? I mean you're talking about planet April, May, June, July, August, September.
I'm just got you know, because you're talking about seven
months of baseball to say one more home game?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Really and really, how worth it is that? It's not?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
It's not you can't look in the NFL, I get you. Look,
home field advantage is a big deal. You play one game. No,
that's a big deal. Look, you need to do something
a little bit, a little bit for those teams to chance.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Hadn't we done that for to the Seven's been that forever?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Right?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
But now that you're letting more teams in the play
you're allowing more mediocre ish teams in the mediocre team right, No,
I get it, but you're giving them It's just like
the NCAA tournament where you let all these mid major
teams in and it doesn't mean the mid major teams
can't beat the big you can't. But you let these
teams in from the smaller conferences. And what did they
(32:44):
do during the regular season to get in? They won
a conference that's not as good as the Power five conferences.
So did they really deserve that chance to get in
over over a team that finished sixth in the ACC
that was twenty and ten.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Well they played.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
If you took this team from the Horizon League and
put them in the ACC, they're lucky if they win
ten or eleven games, But yet you're putting them into
the into the postseason. You need to do something in
the regular season to deserve that chance.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
You're the guy that wants to take away the home
game for the seven to ten division winner.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Two sure, sure, Sure, I want to. I want to
reward excellence. That's what I want to do. Mike Carmon.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
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Speaker 1 (33:34):
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Live from the ti iraq dot Com Studios. Congratulations of
the Arizona Diamondbacks onto the NLCS after they beat the
Dodgers four to two, hitting four home runs in the
third inning.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Off of Lance Lynn.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
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(34:16):
the game now that the Dodgers are out. But first
let's celebrate the play of the day, and it's home
run King lance Lynn.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
A high drive deep right field, back at the warning track,
back at the wall to tomorrow hurrold Up Perdomo.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
One nothing Diamondbacks.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Here on the third you see a one oh get,
a high flight ball deep right field. No doubt about
this two nothing Diamondbacks home run Marte third of the postseason,
two nothing Diamondbacks. As he came sent it drive the left,
that ball, my go.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
That bolls gone hop out.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
This sitate home run, out of the home run out
of the home run three nothing Diamondbacks walkers first to
the postseason couch two and two on Marino. On the
pitch from Lynn can a shot to let centerfield? Bet,
she goes, Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Can't be?
Speaker 6 (35:12):
Marino gets it out anyway, and it's four Navy diamond bets.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
It's a home run party.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Who could last for more?
Speaker 3 (35:21):
It's a home run party.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Wow, get some oingo boingo into end the night as well.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Good for you, my goodness, oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Four home runs in the second and then given up
by Lance Lynn and the Dodgers go out swept by
the Diamondbacks. Now this gets to the Otani question. Does
this failure by the Dodgers make them more or less
likely to sign show?
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Hey Otani?
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Well this is where I say everybody's gonna love this,
because hey, Dodger fans are gonna go more likely.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
We need to go out and get a star.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
We watch Mookie bets, not get a bleeping hitting Freddy
Freeman got I don't want to see him dancing at
second basymore because nobody got on base. We need a
guy that we know is gonna hit home runs and eventually,
hopefully someday maybe pitch for us. And then there's the
other side of it, which is a side I'm on
that says, no, you didn't hit. But you need at
least four new starting pitchers next year if you're the Dodgers,
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not one, not two, not three, four, four, because you're
gonna count on Clayton Kershaw coming back at thirty six
and hey, eventually Clayton's gonna run out of magic. Maybe
he ran out of magic here in Game one against
the Diamondbacks. Arius is not gonna be on the team again.
Neither is lance Lynn Walker. Buehler may be able to
come back, but you can't count on him. He's a
(36:40):
guy that whatever you get from him, you get from him.
So you need four new starting pitcher if you're gonna
do anything. If you saw anything in the series so far,
you've seen the teams have tried to trot out less
than stellar starting pitchers and bullpen games. They are going home.
The Dodgers' money, honestly, is better spent four new start
Take that money you're gonna give to Otani five hundred
(37:00):
seven hundred million dollars and go get.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Four new starting pitches. Wait a minute, that's what the Dodgers.
Should you were just saying you didn't want to go
get starting pitchers till the All Star break and the
Troy deadline.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Oh no, I'm not saying you got to go get
four superstar pitchers, but you gotta get four guys can
get You have to get four more.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
No no, no, no, no no no, you don't go get.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
You gotta go.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
You got a little bit higher than go for for
lance Linn. You go, lance Linn, you go.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
And then they laid down or four starting pitchers you
know what look like Look they wanted Rodriguez a the
deadline from the Tigers. Guys like that, right, not an
incredibly great starting pitcher, but someone who's gonna be pretty
good and give you a lot of innings that you
can rely on. Right, that's you gotta do because those
guys are gonna be expensive, but you can you can
get four of those guys.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Wouldn't have given a.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Toy and giving the offensive ineptitude in these series, maybe
you actually have to be willing to get rid of
one of those prospects to go get one of those
big arms along the way as well. So, yeah, the
long offseason has begun. Wow, just sorrow in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
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