October 10, 2024 • 39 mins
Jason and Mike Jason tell you the moment Woody Johnson decided to finally fire Robert Saleh. Plus, all the BIG stories and headlines from the MLB Playoffs!
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
So as today a bigger day for you than the
Rizzler AJ and Big Justice being on the Knicks bench
a little bit bigger, a little bit, a little bit
yeah yeah, yeah, like because they brought.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
The boom you know, I know DJ, I know, I
know the Wrizzler. Yeah yeah, the Wrizzler. Yeah. That was
the most likes the Knicks have gotten on Twitter in years.
A lot of attention paid down.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, no, no, what it was, And I did like
to mean that he had more points than Ronny to I.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Know, I know, I know he made the one. Yet
feeling buddy, kidding, buddy, I feel today was incredible. I get,
I get, Okay, here's the last few days, right, I don't,
like I said, I don't know that I have anything
left because you're going for the last nine days, like
you could do a thirty you could you need three
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thirty for thirty starting with Lindor's home run against the
Braves to put them in the playoffs. Then the next
day you start the series against the Brewers. You play
again the next three days, and you need a Lonzo's
three run over the ninth in that I watch every
day at least ten times.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
It's like a motivational speech. I mean, that's Stuart Smally
on steroids. You know what I found.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I found how he rose his entire ninth inning call,
and I really I listened to the entire top of
the ninth I'm like, oh, yeah, that's all I need
right now.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You know, I do dig how quickly they're getting those
calls out that don't fit great from the local radio,
just reminder of the power of the broadcasters and just saying, hey,
you got the national call. That's cool, whether it's Fox, TBS, whatever,
but here here's the emotion of the guys that have
been right. Look, the national guy's doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
They do a great job, right, But like Ladore's home
run today, they did the exact right thing. Right watching
on FS one, he hits the home run, it's gone,
and you lay out and you listen to the fans
and you let the pictures tell the story and it's awesome, right,
but you know, I want to hear how he rose
say in a in a fairy tale season and it's
the most fairy tale home run of his career, which
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is like, oh my god. And yeah, I know how
he doesn't practice it because there's still plays where I
used to listen his calls. He can't tell when the
ball's going out, like he doesn't doesn't call like it's good.
He goes it's a deep to left, back to the track,
to the wall. It's like, I know the ball is gone.
I know it's a home run. But describing the game
that way, so you know it's not it's not something
that you think of ahead of time. I mean, getting
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those out are just fantastic. And I mean when when
Lindor hit the home run today, it was it was
a huge relief, just just just shot out of me
because I said, Okay, we're gonna win this game. And
Peterson if Carlos Mendoza is smart and doesn't want anybody
to have heart attacks, Peterson pitches the rest of the game.
He's been our best starter. But he's been coming out
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of the bullpen this series because of the way the
series had gone, right, they needed to pitch the end
of the game against the Brewers. So he comes in
in the first game. Now he comes out here and
now they can figure out there starting pitching, you know,
for Sunday have three days off, and it was just
I knew they were gonna win. And even when DS
put two one in the ninth and I'm seeing all
these disaster scenarios, of course just go I'm like, oh,
(04:05):
come on, just just stop, just stop. And I was
celebrating like Henry Hill when he found out the money
they got from Luftanzo. Oh, Jimmy Frank Gay Frank Frankay, Oh,
it's awesome. But I'll tell you what you want something
a little bit, a little bit deeper from the from
the playoffs, that that doesn't get it gets talked around,
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but it doesn't get talked about with the with the
gravity that it should take a little deeper. It wanted
to is that you hear a lot of talk about
bullpens and how big the bullpen is, and and and
this team has a great bullpen and they're ready for
the playoffs, and this team doesn't have as great a bullpen,
and they try to figure things out and just take
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some of the teams go go down the row with
some of the teams. We watched the Dodgers tonight go
eight for eight out of the pen in a bullpen game.
To be pads so good, amazing, right and incredible, incredible night.
We saw the same thing a couple of times in
the National League where bullpens come in shut teams down.
We've also seen times where teams with great bullpens come
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in and they can't get it done. And the thing
that's not talked about the most of the players, because
what we talk about with bullpens is oh make the
right move bringing the right guy in. You brought the
wrong guy in. Look at what happened now. I mean, look,
the Phillies brought their closer in the sixth inning and
Lindor still hit a home run, right, still hit a
Grand Slam. But of all the things in the playoffs, Okay,
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you can overcome and win a series. If you're starting
pitching is not great, you can still win. You can
hit the ball still win that series. You can win
a series if your hitting is not that great. Look
at the Tigers right now. Up they could barely score,
but it doesn't matter. The Guardians can't score them eight scoreless. Yeah,
they're they're They're hitting is not great, right, they're not.
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I mean, I think for the Detroit Tigers fan, you know,
two to zero in the leadoff batter is a rally, right.
They they bleed every single run. But you can overcome
if your starting pitching is not great, you can overcome.
If you don't hit the ball great, you cannot overcome
your bullpen not being at its best. You can you
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can still because look because to take the Mets in
the Philly series, for instance, was the Mets bullpen great, No,
it wasn't great, but it was good enough. The Phillies
bullpen was terrible. It was absolutely abominable, and this is
one of the best bullpens in the game. They had
four all star pitchers, they trotted out two out of
the bullpen, and guess what the Mets racked them up for,
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like thirteen runs in nine innings, whatever it was they packed.
The Phillies bullpen was absolutely terrible, and so they're going
home right. The Mets beat the Brewers. Brewers had one
of the best bullpens in baseball, lights out closing down
what happened. The bullpen was terrible and the Mets wound
up going on. Not the Mets bullpen is great because,
as I told you, there's nobody I can really trust.
(06:56):
I can't trust ds. My goodness I want coming in
with Pearson in the game isn't gonna kill you. But yeah,
the Mets bullpen rides a light like philm Aton coming
in and walking. We'll take him out, We'll put somebody
else in. The Mets bullpen's not great, but they've been
holding it together. It's been a bend, but don't break bullpen.
And when you see you look at every series from
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that perspective, it's easy to go, oh, yeah, this team,
but what happened? Why they look their bullpen was bad
because you cannot overcome that. The bullpens are so important
and they give so much that they come in they
come into play so much earlier in games. Now in
the third inning, fourth inning. Teams now normally have bullpen games. Well,
our planers have a bullpen game in game three. Do
you really want that? Yeah, that's our plan. Oh, all right,
(07:41):
go get it then. But and if you're so, if
your bullpen pitch is okay, right, But if your bullpen
is bad, that's the one thing you can overcome. You
can overcome a lot of other things, starting pitching, hitting,
bad defense, you can overcome. But if your bullpen is bad,
I guarantee you lose a series. Show me a bad bullpen,
I'll show you a team that's going home.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, I mean just watched it. Oh, the evolution of
the game. I mean, I just remember back Fantasy Baseball.
You'd have it's all starters and then the closers, and
then there'd be Ramiro Mendoza. Why because he would pitched
ninety games and it was the bridge guy for the
Yankees for all those years and got a number of
big outs, big appearances, and then would hand the ball
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to Rivera and they'd finish the job. So when we're
watching games here in twenty twenty four, I mean it's
completely changed, you know, from the minor leagues all the
way through as to your expectations of what a starter gets. Well,
we got a guy go into the seventh thing. I
don't care if he's got a no hit or not.
It's applause worthy at this point that they have convinced
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their manager, whether it be their pitch count or just
what the velocity was on their secondary pitch that convinced
them to let them go an extra inning.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I applaud that more than anything.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Like we chuckle all the time of the stats from
twenty years ago, twenty five years ago, it's like, yeah,
this guy I had fifteen complete games. Like I don't
think half the league had fifteenth complete game. So you
know you're going to the pen. And it's not even
a hey, we're gonna have a guy for the seventh,
for the eighth, for the ninth. No, we've got to
have contingency plans for the fourth fifty six Now in
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a lot of these games, and I'm not just talking
playoffs where you're really trying to squeeze every out, even
going back to the regular season, how many teams while
it wasn't officially an opener, I don't know if it
was to.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Save the guy's ego. Yeah, yeah, you're really a starting pitcher,
Yeah you are.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
How many outs am I getting? Hopefully ten? Yeah, hopefully ten?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
But then we'll go from there. But we're gonna reevaluate
you after like fifteen pitches. Okay, just so you.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Know, legitimately, right, it's like, all right, already somebody up
in the pen. Maybe we saw that in the Dodgers
guard I'm the Tigers Guardians game today. It's like there
was one at bat and it's like, yeah, there's already
someone up in starting to get loose. All right, then,
you know, And we haven't talked about that game really,
just obliquely because the Guardians have been terrible.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, and credit to the Tigers. They're getting big.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
He hits Marino Rodgers, who's a folk hero there, and
he looks every bit the foal hero their catcher. He
said all the right things after he goes no different
when I'm catching all these different relieves, because right they
had to go to the bullpen repeatedly because we have
a game plan. The job of the pitcher and with
me calling the game is to execute that plan no
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matter who's at the plate or who's on the mound.
That we've done the due diligence, We've done the work.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
And watching teams go in and be able to play
that out and we got to watch the Dodgers and
all their glory tonight.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
It's a beautiful things.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Not often that it goes straight line, no, right, because
you're gonna have some hiccups along the way. Yeah, but yeah,
the bullpen is so paramount. I mean, look at what
the salaries are doing. Look at what you know to
the off season acquisitions. We're not talking about, oh they
made a big splash with a thirty million dollar starter anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
It's no.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I mean, look at the padres at the deadline, right,
what did they do? They had already gotten seized before
the season. The White Sox game them away, and then
you get to the trade deadline, it's like, what did
you do?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
All right?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
We added a bunch of bullpen arms because we know
we're gonna need them. Yeah, and look it look to
talk about to the Mets, they completely revent their bullpen
from the beginning of the season, they went through.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
About twelve guys. Okay, it's not working for you. Come on,
guys who are high leveraged?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Adam Otavino was the eight had the eighth inning coming
in the season. Guess what he has been getting games
and the only pitches if it's if it's out of
hand one way, Oh, this guy's not working somebody else.
It's it's the Simpsons when they want Flanders, what do
they nominate Flanders for? I think we should nominate Ned
Flander with for mayor or something. He goes well, fellas,
I don't know if I can a Homer goes someone else,
someone else, like that's what That's what it is. Board
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keep rolling through and sometimes it's not. You need to
find a guy who's great. You just need to find
a guy who's great for a little while. It's almost
like in the playoffs. I don't need you to be
a great goalie for the rest of your career, but
for boy, the next three weeks. If you can be
a great goalie, that's all I care about. That's what
we want, right. I don't need you to be a
great picture out of the bullpen for the next three
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years and we signed you to a bit. I need
you to be a great pitcher for the next time. Yeah,
here's a guy like you know you know that honestly,
you know who the Mets best picture is right now?
The guy if that's okay, who do I need to
come in to get one out out of Peterson? But
he's he's actually a starting pitcher. He's said to be.
Who's the reliever that I want in the game. It's
Ryan Stannick. You know why because he's hot right now.
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He saw his bats. He throws ninety eight to ninety nine.
And this is a guy that's been in the league
for a decade, right, He's been an opener, he's been
a close but everything. He's the guy I want to
found your spot. Right. Nobody even knows who he is.
He's the guy I trust the most.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
And he's a guy that if he finishes the job right,
Mets advance now to the league championship series. He shows
out there, he's gonna have a fat ass bank account.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
What you know what, who was warming up to come
in if he has put another guy on base? Ryan Stannick,
Like that was the guy. So it's it's it's really
if your bullpen can just hold it enough, you can.
But if your bullpen is bad, like you can't overcome that.
There's no you're not gonna overcome a bullpen because the
way you get deflated when a guy comes in and
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gives up three runs or gives up a home run.
When when Lindor hit that home run, the Phillies were
just we're done, We're done. The Mets seventh eighth inning
was like bang bang, and of course he has comes in. No,
I'm gonna make things interesting, but they were done. They
were absolutely done. It was we're cooked. We just watched
our bullpen give games away where we can't overcome.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
All those teams make the playoffs from that division.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah yeah, staying who knew? Not right now?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Now?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Thinking, boy, Dodgers are going to be really tough men,
probably the Yankees. This is gonna be tough, but again,
it's a found money season. It's found money supposed to compete.
You guys, want to hear the next segment the worst
call ever? Oh yes, I thought, are you gonna say, hey,
speaking of the Yankees, Jason, want me to call your dad?
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I know he's asleep. Yeah, yeah, he is. I actually
text he was very excited. I text him, he was
really really excited. Yeah, I said, Hey, Stanton hit a
home run. He goes, Yeah, that helped. So how do
you think Fabiano is gonna find out that they won
the game because he's been asleep for hours? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You gonna text him in the morning. No, I texted him, hey, congratulations.
Hopefully in another game you can make the NLCS, so
he'll know when he wakes up in the morning from
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your text at the Yankees one. Yeah, yeah, No, he'll
not go in the morning yet. Exit out, bout of Fresca,
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(15:12):
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Speaker 4 (15:16):
Frank A, what a special moment.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Hey, yeah, a lot of times we play That fake
Tbow home run is insane, but it's a master class
from ty shirt Boy. It's a long, long time ago
the Mets are looking for relevancy by signing Tim Tebow.
Not as long ago as you think, because I keep
going back to, you know, last year, Meg Sures are saying,
(15:50):
I'm okay being traded because they told me we weren't
gonna compete this year. The Mets told me We're just
gonna kind of hanging tread this year. Well they kind
of did well. Yeah, and then grimace throughout the first pitch,
and then we never looked back. But even then it
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still took a little bit extra to get in. The
Mets are undefeated at City Field in the playoffs, and
the Grimace era it's kind of a big deal. I mean,
the Grimace era is here. Now, this is what it is.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Do they have a full slate of giveaways with Grimace?
Have they done that licensing with McDonald's shit?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Come on now?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I think you know he's got his own seat. That
city got a statue. Yet he's got a seat at
City Field. They painted purple and fans walk to it
to take pictures before the game, like me going a Stonehenge, Like, oh,
I want to go go see Stonehenge. I want to go.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
See Well, I mean there's seats that are commemorated in
another ballpoch landed and.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Stuff, So why not? But the Express pros Pro of
the Week. Nobody's surprised at this. When you hit the
biggest home run in your franchise's history, after hitting the
biggest time running your franchise this nine days before, you
are the Express pros Pro of the Week.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Now the pitch swinging a drive towards the capit Light Center,
it's pretty deep, It's back there the wall.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
It's gone.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
It's gone. Francisco Lindor, he may have just outdone himself.
He has hit a grand slam. The Mets hurt, leading
by a score of four to one. Howie Rose on
the call, Francisco Lindora's grand slam, and and look, there's
ways you see guys rounding the bases in the era
of the bat flip. What what did Max months? He
(17:30):
said yesterday? Why the Padres pissed him off? Because there
are guys at bat flip after a single, right, like
you know, they bud flip thirty feet in the air
after it. Hey, find your wins. Bet you know you
watch Lindor and and and the the ISO camera around
him around the bases, It's like I hit it, I'm
rounding the bases. It could be the preseason, it could
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be Opening Day, it could be the World Series. It
could be it doesn't matter. He just can't. He carries
himself in that way where even the no matter how
much you hate the team you're playing, and you know
there's no love lost between the Phillies and the Mets,
none at all, But the Phillies to a man would say,
oh no, no, I respect the hell out of Francisco Lindor. Oh,
Chipper Jones takes to Twitter, Chipper Jones, Yeah, I mean,
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oh boy, remember when the praise are in the playoffs?
Those are the days. Huh look what you did.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
There, but said shout out to Francisco Lindor. Not only
an MVP type season series clinching Grand Slam, but grace
and class upon doing so was refreshing. Been a big
fan from Afar for a long time, big time player
and that's at real CJ ten.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So a little bit of Chipper Jones. The Hall of
Famers are involved. Yeah, they might kid after Shay because
I hit there so well, you know what should have
been traded there? He could have hit their eighty one
games a year. Imagine the Hall of Fame credentials you
would have. You were too busy falling in love with
Captain America. Somebody could have moved across the diamond. So, guys,
Lindor was the Express Pro Player of the week, Yes
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he was, Yes he was the non Express Pro Player
of the week. Play caller of the week.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Oh boy, okay, I thought you were going to throw
give Aaron Rodgers interception.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
No, I know, I know we're gonna get no, no, no,
We'll get Aaron Rodgers in a minute. I know exactly
what this is going to be.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Here.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Here is your non pro play by play non pro
pro of the week.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Lind base hit the center field. It was smothered out there.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I don't know if it was caught. It was caught.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Oh my gosh, what a play John Bob Costas really
missing the call in.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
The Yankee Royals game and Ron Darling having to jump
in and say it was caught. It was caught, Bob,
Bob not that wasn't great, Bob, not great, Bob, not great.
Tbs on the call. Not a great call there, Bob.
It wasn't a hit. I caught it.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Having flashbacks of running home from school as a kid
to watch Chicago.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Comes to the ball is some other No, it was caught.
It was caught.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
It's a there's a high fly ball, deep field, dunst
it at the edge of the infield, hauls it in. No,
wasn't this thing always there's a drive and then it
would be like, you know, here comes dr near and
a diving catch just behind short stop on the edge
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of the might be it could be here's a drive
it's caught well in front of the warning track.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I always tell people the same thing, like like, whenever
they're in a game and you see a ball hit,
you go, how can you tell as a homer, I said, well,
there's two ways. When you're watching the game at home,
look at the batter. They will react in a way
that will tell you. Now, certainly, if you know more
about the batter, you'll know how they react. Like I knew,
Like I said, I didn't see Alonzo's home run land
the first time because as soon as he yelled, I
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knew he got and knew was a home run. And
I'm screaming. But lindor'sa said, same way he hits it
and the way he just ran it, he got it.
He got it. You can just tell. But at a game,
just watch the outfielders. Don't don't try to find the
ball and go, oh my good. Look at the outfields
and you see when you if you see them sprinting
back to the fence, you know what's gonna be. Jason
Ray Charles knew this was it?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Out uh Ron Darling deadpan was really good.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
That was That wasn't out, Bob, Bob, that was yet.
That was a nice What the hell are you watching, dude?
That was that wasn't out? Okay, Wow, what a play?
Really it was nice. Okay, that's great. Let's okay, here's
here's what's going on. Now what do we have here?
So there you go, express pros pro of the weekend.
Then that call bye, Bob costas Uh. The world had
(21:35):
been waiting for the last twenty four hours to hear
Aaron Rodgers talk about the role he had or didn't
have in the firing of Robert Slam all day yesterday. Oh,
Rogers had to be the guy behind it. He talked
to what he had Johnson. I'm sure it's not happening
without Woody Johnson's knowledge, all of these different things. Here,
(21:55):
Aaron Rodgers was today pushing his appearance on Pat McAfee
by a day. Hey man, bad optic. If I come
on today, how about if I come on tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
You know, I really needed to get my sensibility and
my statement ready.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
So here's Aaron Rodgers today talking about the accusations and
the insinuations that he had something to do with Robert
Sala getting let go by the Jets.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
As far as any of the ridiculous allegations out there.
I'm not going to spend more than one sentence in
response to it, and that is that I resent any
of those accusations because they're patently false. And it's interesting
the amount of power that people think that I have,
which I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
All right, I did not have gom it's a full
Clinton Kno, you kind of sounded like I don't walk
your life. There's two big takeaways from this, right, not
only why I'll tell you what. The big thing is
with Aaron Rodgers saying this, I'll tell you the moment
that I believe Woody Johnson knew he was firing Robert slap.
(22:56):
It doesn't matter what Aaron Rodgers says. Like Moneyball Billy
Bean says, his defense does not matter. Haddiberg's defense does
not matter. What Aaron Rodgers says does not matter. Because
if you could say, oh, Aaron Rodgers, he's coach killing
here's another coach. Yeah. The guy has had a Hall
(23:16):
of Fame career. He has killed coaches before. If he
was younger, he would do it again. He's found the
Halloween season. He's found a way to get to Super Bowls.
He's found a way to win Super Bowls. He's found
a way to win ACP to win well, get to Okay,
well he got to he got to Super Bowls. He
lost what he won. One that was doing the grammar
(23:36):
was correct. Uh, he's found a way to win MVPs
when he couldn't get along with anybody on his coaching staff.
So what he says, whether it's his fault or not, whatever,
Woody Johnson Sarry didn't say, it doesn't matter because the
Jets weren't getting better with the situation they had. Robert Sala,
I told you is a bad coach, and it doesn't
matter what Aaron Rodgers said or didn't say. Oh, Sla
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only had five games there. We had three plus seasons
of Robert Sola. I had a lot of time to
look and go. This guy's not a good coach. I
told your from beginning. He's not a good coach. And
it doesn't matter if Aaron Rodgers got him out because oh,
but he wanted to give him more of a chance. No,
I've seen him coach. I know the team's not good.
I know that they're still having the same problems they
had before Aaron Rodgers got there. They're still undisciplined, they
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come had too many bad penalties. There's no accountability and
the players had had it right when I saw Quincy
Williams and the players talking about accountability and Aaron Rodgers saying, well,
I don't think it's about pre snap calls and cadence.
I knew that that Robert Sala was going to be
done at some point. I thought it would be after
Monday with the Bills game. The Jets just did it earlier.
It just because Aaron Rodgers may or may not have
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been the Domino doesn't mean that they let go of coach.
Oh you man him a goodness, you let go Bill Belichick,
you let go Vince Lombardi. No, he wasn't good, and
that's why they made the decision. However, they got to it.
They understood that we need this season to mean something
and are we willing to roll the dice on a
guy that we have a lot of that There's been
a big sample size on Robert Sala. Not as much
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on Aaron Rodgers, but a big sample size on Robert Sala.
Are we gonna get to a point where we're gonna
have the sample size on Rogers and say, well, Rogers
is good enough or not. Absolutely, we don't have that
right now, but we know the sample size on Robert
Sala didn't work. That's why they let him go. And
whatever Rogers said or not, that's irrelevant because the Jets
needed to make a change.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Well, I mean, no matter what he says, perception is reality,
and Aaron Rodgers has a pr problem. So he was
already at a at a loss before he opened his mouth, right,
and then he gets on on a platform where everybody's
just gonna not go yeah, yeah, all right, like they're
gonna snap like he's doing uh poetry at the at
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the local coffeehouse when he's finished slam.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Poetry night, slam slam poetry, like it's nineteen ninety four.
I'm gonna I'm gonna wear I'm gonna wear in the background,
Hey God, I'm gonna wear my I'm gonna wear my
Doc Martin's slam poetry.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
But the reality is, we watched Robert Salah, and I
think everybody can stimulate to the fact the man's a
good defensive coach. The metrics are good, the analytics, I mean,
the dumb penalties time it again, which again comes from coaching.
No matter what you want to say, and the special
teams has done really well. Great, there's two thirds of
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your team. The offense needs to be figured out. And
to just say, all right, it's all Aaron's responsibility. No,
the head coach is still in charge of all of it.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
We talked about it earlier in the week.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
The idea of hey, he finally started attending quarterback meetings.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, Jeem's like something that's part of your job, part
of your schedule. You're twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I'm sorry you don't get to run stares for a
half hour or something. Get your ass in the conference
room and figure out what's going on, especially with the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
You add, yeah, the other two pacee commercial I can do.
I can still come to that. But all of that
to say, just because.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Rogers right now is not playing well right, if we're honest,
And the accountability thing I think was for everybody, which
might have been a little bit of a hey, Aaron,
some of this is on YouTube because you're you're committing
some pretty bad turnovers in this process. Now he's been
betrayed by his receivers a number of times, and the
run games ineffective. Why because the play calling is terrible.
(27:18):
The getting the signals in from the sideline has been
an absolute joke. You see him getting ready to run
to the sideline and take the play sheet and club
Nathaniel Hackett time and time again based on how slowly
things are being communicated. But all of that to say, no,
no matter what they turn on it, it's.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Gonna suddenly make Robert Salah a great head coach. Look
and I'll tell you this. I'll go a step further.
I'll tell you the moment that I believe Woody Johnson
knew he was firing Sala. All right, They've been debated
all the last twenty four hours. We find out he
was really mad after the Broncos game, Hey join the club.
But I guarantee you this was the moment. On Monday
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Sala gave his press and he was probably thinking about it.
I'm gonna do it. And Sala gave his press conference
and they asked about the two and three start and
how they're gonna go from here, and Robert Salaz said, look, guys,
no one in this building is panicked, right, No one
in this building is panicked. And I guarantee you that
was the last straw that's what put it over the
top and what he Johnson knew. I have to let
him go because how could you not at least at
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least intimate that there's the sense of urgency. You just
lost two bad games. You lost one game to a
team you should have never lost to. You go to
London and lose a game to your old quarterback, and
your offense is terrible, and I'm still watching the same
mistakes that your team is making. And when you're making
the same mistakes and you say, no one in this
building is panicked, Now, dude, that's not the right answer.
(28:45):
I get that you don't want to have the public
image of hey, everything is crazy and alarm bells are sounding.
But when you give that, hey, no one in this
building is panicked, you have not given me a reason
to think that you're in control of this. And I
want to see a sense of urgency from you, and
I have not seen that sense of urgency. So with
all that going in now, I'm gonna cut Tomorrow's a
day he's done. I'm firing tomorrow. I guarantee you that
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was the final final straw of Woody Johnson. Word's okay,
I'm gonna let him go. And then that happened. It
was okay, now I'm gonna do it tomorrow. And now
he's all I know is this Joe Douglas clipped that off. Everything.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Woody Johnson had to say, like, this is my resume.
If he decides suddenly to cut me loose, tell me
what a great roster I assembled.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
We've ever had great roster. All of this.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
He was blowing smoke up like something was like wow
with Joe Douglas, is he no?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
He was blowing kisses his way about what the roster?
Oh yeah, well look he's drafted well and he look,
Joe Douglas, Now his job is safe because he's done.
He's He's given you the groceries, right, it's if you
can't make a good meal, it's not his fault, right,
I've given you the groceries. Everything you want. I brought him.
Son chokes, goju jang. You had everything you need. You
got the same Jason. If he lands Davante.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Well but that's it. You got Davante. And Reddick needs
to come back in that door because you need him.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, Reddick might be a lost cause at this point,
because is the guy really going to be ready to
play devant Adams.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I need him to rush ten times a game, that's
all I need.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I have more confidence they'll swing a trade for Adams
and they will getting us on Reddick. I have more
confidence ready for the Adams administration. Johan Adams. That's that
little guy who spoke to me. Uh, what's trending in
the wide world of sports? From Hercules Mulligan Monte, she
(30:38):
has what's trending.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
I just can't get over you saying that Grimace was
like Stonehenge.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
That people are making pilgrimage. That's what it is.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
I heard that and I just couldn't you know, I.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Really just are you? Are you a Breaking Bad? Fans?
You watch Breaking Bad? I did not like it. Okay,
maybe I need to try it again.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
I like, I tried like the first two three episodes,
and I don't know if the hype was too big
and I tried it, but.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Maybe I need to go back.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Everyone just loves it.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
But yeah, but to be more I mean, obviously people
still go see stones, but to get more current, remember
the scene when the brothers were crawled to the to
the icon they were going to go to and they
decided they were worse bring this religious icon and they
got on the ground and they crawled to it or whatever.
That's like what people are doing for grim up there. Yeah, yeah, no,
(31:28):
I I believe it.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I believe it.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
I really do, because I mean, he is the reason
you guys are are where you are.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
MVP first, Tayn Lindor.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
All Right, the Mets are the first team to punch
their ticket to the next round. They're headed to the
NLCS after defeating the Phillies four to one behind a
grand slam from Francisco Lindor. Here is right fielder for
the Phillies, Nick Castellanos, give them their credit.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I beat us. Is there a lot of things that
we could have done better? Yes?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Is there are things that we could have done different? Yes?
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Do I think that they are a better team than us? No,
what this series they were.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
They are not the better team, Jason. That's what Nick
costallanis said, may.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Be the only interview himself. He was asking to answer
his own questions. And I do want to say, Nick
Costeano said going into Game four, all the Mets don't
want to come back to Philadelphia for Game five, So
he was right. I want to say thank you for
the invitation but we have the NLCS. The other is
we'll see you in CB Park next year.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
The probably response was dull, we'll see next year, yes.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Right, yes, yes, it's on.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
The Tigers blank the Guardians for a second game in
a row. So if you're keeping track, Cleveland has gone
twenty innings without scoring a run. Tigers now lead the
series two to one after beating them three zero.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Really only twenty innings that they haven't scored in a
consecutive since there we go twenty innings.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Since team one.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
The Yankees edge of the Royals three to two. Gian
Carlos stand with the go ahead home in the eighth inning.
They now lead the series two to one, and the
the Years have forced a Game five against the Padres,
which will be on Friday here in LA, after shutting
them out eight and zero in San Diego. Three Dodger homers,
first Mookie Bets, then Will Smith, then Gavin Lux. Thursday
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night football between the forty nine Ers and the Seahawks.
Forty nine Ers tight end George Kittle off the injury report,
so he's gonna play. Eagles wide receivers AJ Brown and
Davonte Smith were full participants in practice today Colts wide
receiver Michael Pittman Junior is expected to miss several weeks
with a back injury that could land him on injured reserve.
This is according to ESPN. With Derek Carr's recent oblique injury,
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the Saints are going to be starting rooky quarterback Spencer
Rattler on Sunday against the Buccaneers, and the Raiders announced
that they're going to be starting eight In O'Connell at
quarterback against the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Wide receiver Davonte Adams not.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Expected to play, and the Texans have officially placed wide
receiver Nico Collins on injured reserve. Guys, it's been fun
back to you.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Thank you very much much. Yes. Coming up next, appreciation
moments for two people who absolutely deserved them after what
they did today. None of them are Mets. One's a
players in the job she always I always appreciate Monty
in the job she does. But we will have the
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one player and the one manager. We'll have that coming
up next. This is Fox Sports Radio. You're ready, hang
on many years since Grimace was here, lind Or homerd
we got to the playoffs, then Alonzo hit a three
run jack we knocked the Brewers out of the playoffs.
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The Paul was out of sight, but then tonight, alright,
shut up, here's Lindor with the bases loaded in the
bottom of the sixth inning and a grand slam. You
better believe the Mets are back back in the LCS.
They're back back in the LCS, and the Phillies had
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to go back back for the off season, dropping the mic.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
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Speaker 1 (35:13):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon live from the tire rack dot Com studios.
Uh time for an appreciation moment for two people from tonight.
Neither of them are Met s don'orry, Alex Tye Shirt
and Justin Frost. Always always appreciate them. The first one
is this, uh.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Gen.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Carlos Stanton has not had the smoothest time as a Yankee, No, no,
but tonight the stolen base, the home run to give
the Yankees a three to win over the Royals. It's
his best day as a Yankee. Now. I'm sure the
Yankees would have wanted this to happen you know years ago, well, uh,
you know when Peter decided I'm going to give you
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this guy.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Everybody wants their kid to be a star right away
and get that job and be on their merry way.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Sometimes it takes time. But this is the biggest day
he has had as a Yankee, the most clutch home run.
He has never been a Yankee more than he is today.
And you know, when you put a team one game
away from moving on to the league championship series, I
just appreciate. Look, this is a really talented guy who's
always been incredibly talented, has not been able to stay healthy,
(36:21):
not been able to stay in the lineup. But when
he is healthy, he's the biggest, most powerful home run
here we've seen in baseball the last ten to twelve years.
And to see him get that big hit tonight and
finally get one night where hey, everybody loves me, the
Yankee fans finally love me, that's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Yeah, Big Mike gets it done. I mean, come on,
he also hey, he was Mike wants a boon of time.
I have trading cards that prove it. Okay, But for Stan,
I mean, he's been the butt of how many jokes right,
not in the lineup, the amount of games he's missed
due to injury. You always get the graphic of salary
paid out and all that stuff, because that that's what
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you do with a high priced guy that can't stand
a lot. Look at what they did in Anaheim when
they do pay attention in Anaheim with Anthony Rendon, wasn't
about anything he actually got to do on the field,
you know those few times he was on it. It
was this is how much we're paying for a guy
and a contract that went beat for Stanton.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
For the most part, it's been viewed.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
As a terrible contract, particularly when you go in contrast
to Aaron Judge, who he's been compared to Bill to
put you're looking at some of the best years we've
seen in baseball in the last twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
What Iron Judge is doing, right, But I mean, you
look at Charls.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Stanton is a guy that for his career, despite I mean,
he had twenty seven home runs this year, first career,
he's at for twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
All right, man, that's that's pretty healthy a lot.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
That's a lot of home runs, and that means you've
had a really good run Unfortunately he's not been available
in stretches where they truly needed him, and for the
postseason oftentimes invisible.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Today's a big game. Where's the respect meter from your dad?
On on Mike? You know he is he's he's not.
Oh yeah, yeah, an. He always wants the right guys
to He wanted about time, about time. Let's see what
he does in the next game like that, my dad,
Yeah yeah, but what judge is his guy judges? My
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dad's guys can't come through every game. No, but it
doesn't matter. I'm telling you how it goes. That's my dad.
Has he embraced jazz Chisholm. He loves jazz. He goes
just what we needed, just what we needed love. But Carlos,
So what he does tomorrow, let's see that. Okay, thanks Dad,
look the other guy to give you appreciation moment for
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Dave Roberts managed the best game of his Dodgers career tonight,
hands down. The pressure on the team, the pressure on
him knowing that a loss probably means he was going
to be fired, having to go to a bullpen game.
Despite the fact the Dodgers paid a billion dollars in
salary to players last year, and here you are in
a bullpen game, and not only does he take the
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pressure off the team, he goes eight for bleeping eight
in bullpen guys tonight, everybody pitches it. He was like
an All Star game. You pitched it and you're out.
He goes eight for eight, bringing the right guys in
to shut out the Padres. Not just win. Hey we
won eight seven, we escape, We're going back to La.
This was a dominant victory by the bullpen, and to
go eight for eight, this is the game. He should
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hang this in his own personal loove. This is that
kind of game for Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
They got after c surly, you get eight for eight,
and the fact that you held them to zero for nine,
runners in scoring position, making big pitches when they needed to,
and pulled the strings really well. I mean, Dave Roberts
the epitome of calm. As we get ready for Game
five on Friday, let's go first. We got Thursday Night
football tomorrow. Yeah, the forty nine ers. Everybody's nervous, My buddy,
(39:51):
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
So as today a bigger day for you than the
Rizzler AJ and Big Justice being on the Knicks bench
a little bit bigger, a little bit, a little bit
yeah yeah, yeah, like because they brought.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
The boom you know, I know DJ, I know, I
know the Wrizzler. Yeah yeah, the Wrizzler. Yeah. That was
the most likes the Knicks have gotten on Twitter in years.
A lot of attention paid down.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, no, no, what it was, And I did like
to mean that he had more points than Ronny to I.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Know, I know, I know he made the one. Yet
feeling buddy, kidding, buddy, I feel today was incredible. I get,
I get, Okay, here's the last few days, right, I don't,
like I said, I don't know that I have anything
left because you're going for the last nine days, like
you could do a thirty you could you need three
(01:45):
thirty for thirty starting with Lindor's home run against the
Braves to put them in the playoffs. Then the next
day you start the series against the Brewers. You play
again the next three days, and you need a Lonzo's
three run over the ninth in that I watch every
day at least ten times.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
It's like a motivational speech. I mean, that's Stuart Smally
on steroids. You know what I found.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I found how he rose his entire ninth inning call,
and I really I listened to the entire top of
the ninth I'm like, oh, yeah, that's all I need
right now.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You know, I do dig how quickly they're getting those
calls out that don't fit great from the local radio,
just reminder of the power of the broadcasters and just saying, hey,
you got the national call. That's cool, whether it's Fox, TBS, whatever,
but here here's the emotion of the guys that have
been right. Look, the national guy's doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
They do a great job, right, But like Ladore's home
run today, they did the exact right thing. Right watching
on FS one, he hits the home run, it's gone,
and you lay out and you listen to the fans
and you let the pictures tell the story and it's awesome, right,
but you know, I want to hear how he rose
say in a in a fairy tale season and it's
the most fairy tale home run of his career, which
(03:02):
is like, oh my god. And yeah, I know how
he doesn't practice it because there's still plays where I
used to listen his calls. He can't tell when the
ball's going out, like he doesn't doesn't call like it's good.
He goes it's a deep to left, back to the track,
to the wall. It's like, I know the ball is gone.
I know it's a home run. But describing the game
that way, so you know it's not it's not something
that you think of ahead of time. I mean, getting
(03:22):
those out are just fantastic. And I mean when when
Lindor hit the home run today, it was it was
a huge relief, just just just shot out of me
because I said, Okay, we're gonna win this game. And
Peterson if Carlos Mendoza is smart and doesn't want anybody
to have heart attacks, Peterson pitches the rest of the game.
He's been our best starter. But he's been coming out
(03:44):
of the bullpen this series because of the way the
series had gone, right, they needed to pitch the end
of the game against the Brewers. So he comes in
in the first game. Now he comes out here and
now they can figure out there starting pitching, you know,
for Sunday have three days off, and it was just
I knew they were gonna win. And even when DS
put two one in the ninth and I'm seeing all
these disaster scenarios, of course just go I'm like, oh,
(04:05):
come on, just just stop, just stop. And I was
celebrating like Henry Hill when he found out the money
they got from Luftanzo. Oh, Jimmy Frank Gay Frank Frankay, Oh,
it's awesome. But I'll tell you what you want something
a little bit, a little bit deeper from the from
the playoffs, that that doesn't get it gets talked around,
(04:28):
but it doesn't get talked about with the with the
gravity that it should take a little deeper. It wanted
to is that you hear a lot of talk about
bullpens and how big the bullpen is, and and and
this team has a great bullpen and they're ready for
the playoffs, and this team doesn't have as great a bullpen,
and they try to figure things out and just take
(04:49):
some of the teams go go down the row with
some of the teams. We watched the Dodgers tonight go
eight for eight out of the pen in a bullpen game.
To be pads so good, amazing, right and incredible, incredible night.
We saw the same thing a couple of times in
the National League where bullpens come in shut teams down.
We've also seen times where teams with great bullpens come
(05:11):
in and they can't get it done. And the thing
that's not talked about the most of the players, because
what we talk about with bullpens is oh make the
right move bringing the right guy in. You brought the
wrong guy in. Look at what happened now. I mean, look,
the Phillies brought their closer in the sixth inning and
Lindor still hit a home run, right, still hit a
Grand Slam. But of all the things in the playoffs, Okay,
(05:33):
you can overcome and win a series. If you're starting
pitching is not great, you can still win. You can
hit the ball still win that series. You can win
a series if your hitting is not that great. Look
at the Tigers right now. Up they could barely score,
but it doesn't matter. The Guardians can't score them eight scoreless. Yeah,
they're they're They're hitting is not great, right, they're not.
(05:54):
I mean, I think for the Detroit Tigers fan, you know,
two to zero in the leadoff batter is a rally, right.
They they bleed every single run. But you can overcome
if your starting pitching is not great, you can overcome.
If you don't hit the ball great, you cannot overcome
your bullpen not being at its best. You can you
(06:16):
can still because look because to take the Mets in
the Philly series, for instance, was the Mets bullpen great, No,
it wasn't great, but it was good enough. The Phillies
bullpen was terrible. It was absolutely abominable, and this is
one of the best bullpens in the game. They had
four all star pitchers, they trotted out two out of
the bullpen, and guess what the Mets racked them up for,
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like thirteen runs in nine innings, whatever it was they packed.
The Phillies bullpen was absolutely terrible, and so they're going
home right. The Mets beat the Brewers. Brewers had one
of the best bullpens in baseball, lights out closing down
what happened. The bullpen was terrible and the Mets wound
up going on. Not the Mets bullpen is great because,
as I told you, there's nobody I can really trust.
(06:56):
I can't trust ds. My goodness I want coming in
with Pearson in the game isn't gonna kill you. But yeah,
the Mets bullpen rides a light like philm Aton coming
in and walking. We'll take him out, We'll put somebody
else in. The Mets bullpen's not great, but they've been
holding it together. It's been a bend, but don't break bullpen.
And when you see you look at every series from
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that perspective, it's easy to go, oh, yeah, this team,
but what happened? Why they look their bullpen was bad
because you cannot overcome that. The bullpens are so important
and they give so much that they come in they
come into play so much earlier in games. Now in
the third inning, fourth inning. Teams now normally have bullpen games. Well,
our planers have a bullpen game in game three. Do
you really want that? Yeah, that's our plan. Oh, all right,
(07:41):
go get it then. But and if you're so, if
your bullpen pitch is okay, right, But if your bullpen
is bad, that's the one thing you can overcome. You
can overcome a lot of other things, starting pitching, hitting,
bad defense, you can overcome. But if your bullpen is bad,
I guarantee you lose a series. Show me a bad bullpen,
I'll show you a team that's going home.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, I mean just watched it. Oh, the evolution of
the game. I mean, I just remember back Fantasy Baseball.
You'd have it's all starters and then the closers, and
then there'd be Ramiro Mendoza. Why because he would pitched
ninety games and it was the bridge guy for the
Yankees for all those years and got a number of
big outs, big appearances, and then would hand the ball
(08:20):
to Rivera and they'd finish the job. So when we're
watching games here in twenty twenty four, I mean it's
completely changed, you know, from the minor leagues all the
way through as to your expectations of what a starter gets. Well,
we got a guy go into the seventh thing. I
don't care if he's got a no hit or not.
It's applause worthy at this point that they have convinced
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their manager, whether it be their pitch count or just
what the velocity was on their secondary pitch that convinced
them to let them go an extra inning.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I applaud that more than anything.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Like we chuckle all the time of the stats from
twenty years ago, twenty five years ago, it's like, yeah,
this guy I had fifteen complete games. Like I don't
think half the league had fifteenth complete game. So you
know you're going to the pen. And it's not even
a hey, we're gonna have a guy for the seventh,
for the eighth, for the ninth. No, we've got to
have contingency plans for the fourth fifty six Now in
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a lot of these games, and I'm not just talking
playoffs where you're really trying to squeeze every out, even
going back to the regular season, how many teams while
it wasn't officially an opener, I don't know if it
was to.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Save the guy's ego. Yeah, yeah, you're really a starting pitcher,
Yeah you are.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
How many outs am I getting? Hopefully ten? Yeah, hopefully ten?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
But then we'll go from there. But we're gonna reevaluate
you after like fifteen pitches. Okay, just so you.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Know, legitimately, right, it's like, all right, already somebody up
in the pen. Maybe we saw that in the Dodgers
guard I'm the Tigers Guardians game today. It's like there
was one at bat and it's like, yeah, there's already
someone up in starting to get loose. All right, then,
you know, And we haven't talked about that game really,
just obliquely because the Guardians have been terrible.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, and credit to the Tigers. They're getting big.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
He hits Marino Rodgers, who's a folk hero there, and
he looks every bit the foal hero their catcher. He
said all the right things after he goes no different
when I'm catching all these different relieves, because right they
had to go to the bullpen repeatedly because we have
a game plan. The job of the pitcher and with
me calling the game is to execute that plan no
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matter who's at the plate or who's on the mound.
That we've done the due diligence, We've done the work.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
And watching teams go in and be able to play
that out and we got to watch the Dodgers and
all their glory tonight.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
It's a beautiful things.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Not often that it goes straight line, no, right, because
you're gonna have some hiccups along the way. Yeah, but yeah,
the bullpen is so paramount. I mean, look at what
the salaries are doing. Look at what you know to
the off season acquisitions. We're not talking about, oh they
made a big splash with a thirty million dollar starter anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
It's no.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I mean, look at the padres at the deadline, right,
what did they do? They had already gotten seized before
the season. The White Sox game them away, and then
you get to the trade deadline, it's like, what did
you do?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
All right?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
We added a bunch of bullpen arms because we know
we're gonna need them. Yeah, and look it look to
talk about to the Mets, they completely revent their bullpen
from the beginning of the season, they went through.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
About twelve guys. Okay, it's not working for you. Come on,
guys who are high leveraged?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Adam Otavino was the eight had the eighth inning coming
in the season. Guess what he has been getting games
and the only pitches if it's if it's out of
hand one way, Oh, this guy's not working somebody else.
It's it's the Simpsons when they want Flanders, what do
they nominate Flanders for? I think we should nominate Ned
Flander with for mayor or something. He goes well, fellas,
I don't know if I can a Homer goes someone else,
someone else, like that's what That's what it is. Board
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keep rolling through and sometimes it's not. You need to
find a guy who's great. You just need to find
a guy who's great for a little while. It's almost
like in the playoffs. I don't need you to be
a great goalie for the rest of your career, but
for boy, the next three weeks. If you can be
a great goalie, that's all I care about. That's what
we want, right. I don't need you to be a
great picture out of the bullpen for the next three
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years and we signed you to a bit. I need
you to be a great pitcher for the next time. Yeah,
here's a guy like you know you know that honestly,
you know who the Mets best picture is right now?
The guy if that's okay, who do I need to
come in to get one out out of Peterson? But
he's he's actually a starting pitcher. He's said to be.
Who's the reliever that I want in the game. It's
Ryan Stannick. You know why because he's hot right now.
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He saw his bats. He throws ninety eight to ninety nine.
And this is a guy that's been in the league
for a decade, right, He's been an opener, he's been
a close but everything. He's the guy I want to
found your spot. Right. Nobody even knows who he is.
He's the guy I trust the most.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
And he's a guy that if he finishes the job right,
Mets advance now to the league championship series. He shows
out there, he's gonna have a fat ass bank account.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
What you know what, who was warming up to come
in if he has put another guy on base? Ryan Stannick,
Like that was the guy. So it's it's it's really
if your bullpen can just hold it enough, you can.
But if your bullpen is bad, like you can't overcome that.
There's no you're not gonna overcome a bullpen because the
way you get deflated when a guy comes in and
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gives up three runs or gives up a home run.
When when Lindor hit that home run, the Phillies were
just we're done, We're done. The Mets seventh eighth inning
was like bang bang, and of course he has comes in. No,
I'm gonna make things interesting, but they were done. They
were absolutely done. It was we're cooked. We just watched
our bullpen give games away where we can't overcome.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
All those teams make the playoffs from that division.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah yeah, staying who knew? Not right now?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Now?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Thinking, boy, Dodgers are going to be really tough men,
probably the Yankees. This is gonna be tough, but again,
it's a found money season. It's found money supposed to compete.
You guys, want to hear the next segment the worst
call ever? Oh yes, I thought, are you gonna say, hey,
speaking of the Yankees, Jason, want me to call your dad?
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I know he's asleep. Yeah, yeah, he is. I actually
text he was very excited. I text him, he was
really really excited. Yeah, I said, Hey, Stanton hit a
home run. He goes, Yeah, that helped. So how do
you think Fabiano is gonna find out that they won
the game because he's been asleep for hours? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You gonna text him in the morning. No, I texted him, hey, congratulations.
Hopefully in another game you can make the NLCS, so
he'll know when he wakes up in the morning from
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your text at the Yankees one. Yeah, yeah, No, he'll
not go in the morning yet. Exit out, bout of Fresca,
Exit swollen down The Jason Smith Show with my best
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And well, come on, man, the Express pros Pro of
the Week.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Frank A, what a special moment.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Hey, yeah, a lot of times we play That fake
Tbow home run is insane, but it's a master class
from ty shirt Boy. It's a long, long time ago
the Mets are looking for relevancy by signing Tim Tebow.
Not as long ago as you think, because I keep
going back to, you know, last year, Meg Sures are saying,
(15:50):
I'm okay being traded because they told me we weren't
gonna compete this year. The Mets told me We're just
gonna kind of hanging tread this year. Well they kind
of did well. Yeah, and then grimace throughout the first pitch,
and then we never looked back. But even then it
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still took a little bit extra to get in. The
Mets are undefeated at City Field in the playoffs, and
the Grimace era it's kind of a big deal. I mean,
the Grimace era is here. Now, this is what it is.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Do they have a full slate of giveaways with Grimace?
Have they done that licensing with McDonald's shit?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Come on now?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I think you know he's got his own seat. That
city got a statue. Yet he's got a seat at
City Field. They painted purple and fans walk to it
to take pictures before the game, like me going a Stonehenge, Like, oh,
I want to go go see Stonehenge. I want to go.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
See Well, I mean there's seats that are commemorated in
another ballpoch landed and.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Stuff, So why not? But the Express pros Pro of
the Week. Nobody's surprised at this. When you hit the
biggest home run in your franchise's history, after hitting the
biggest time running your franchise this nine days before, you
are the Express pros Pro of the Week.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Now the pitch swinging a drive towards the capit Light Center,
it's pretty deep, It's back there the wall.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
It's gone.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
It's gone. Francisco Lindor, he may have just outdone himself.
He has hit a grand slam. The Mets hurt, leading
by a score of four to one. Howie Rose on
the call, Francisco Lindora's grand slam, and and look, there's
ways you see guys rounding the bases in the era
of the bat flip. What what did Max months? He
(17:30):
said yesterday? Why the Padres pissed him off? Because there
are guys at bat flip after a single, right, like
you know, they bud flip thirty feet in the air
after it. Hey, find your wins. Bet you know you
watch Lindor and and and the the ISO camera around
him around the bases, It's like I hit it, I'm
rounding the bases. It could be the preseason, it could
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be Opening Day, it could be the World Series. It
could be it doesn't matter. He just can't. He carries
himself in that way where even the no matter how
much you hate the team you're playing, and you know
there's no love lost between the Phillies and the Mets,
none at all, But the Phillies to a man would say,
oh no, no, I respect the hell out of Francisco Lindor. Oh,
Chipper Jones takes to Twitter, Chipper Jones, Yeah, I mean,
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oh boy, remember when the praise are in the playoffs?
Those are the days. Huh look what you did.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
There, but said shout out to Francisco Lindor. Not only
an MVP type season series clinching Grand Slam, but grace
and class upon doing so was refreshing. Been a big
fan from Afar for a long time, big time player
and that's at real CJ ten.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So a little bit of Chipper Jones. The Hall of
Famers are involved. Yeah, they might kid after Shay because
I hit there so well, you know what should have
been traded there? He could have hit their eighty one
games a year. Imagine the Hall of Fame credentials you
would have. You were too busy falling in love with
Captain America. Somebody could have moved across the diamond. So, guys,
Lindor was the Express Pro Player of the week, Yes
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he was, Yes he was the non Express Pro Player
of the week. Play caller of the week.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Oh boy, okay, I thought you were going to throw
give Aaron Rodgers interception.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
No, I know, I know we're gonna get no, no, no,
We'll get Aaron Rodgers in a minute. I know exactly
what this is going to be.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Here.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Here is your non pro play by play non pro
pro of the week.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Lind base hit the center field. It was smothered out there.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I don't know if it was caught. It was caught.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Oh my gosh, what a play John Bob Costas really
missing the call in.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
The Yankee Royals game and Ron Darling having to jump
in and say it was caught. It was caught, Bob,
Bob not that wasn't great, Bob, not great, Bob, not great.
Tbs on the call. Not a great call there, Bob.
It wasn't a hit. I caught it.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Having flashbacks of running home from school as a kid
to watch Chicago.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Comes to the ball is some other No, it was caught.
It was caught.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
It's a there's a high fly ball, deep field, dunst
it at the edge of the infield, hauls it in. No,
wasn't this thing always there's a drive and then it
would be like, you know, here comes dr near and
a diving catch just behind short stop on the edge
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of the might be it could be here's a drive
it's caught well in front of the warning track.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I always tell people the same thing, like like, whenever
they're in a game and you see a ball hit,
you go, how can you tell as a homer, I said, well,
there's two ways. When you're watching the game at home,
look at the batter. They will react in a way
that will tell you. Now, certainly, if you know more
about the batter, you'll know how they react. Like I knew,
Like I said, I didn't see Alonzo's home run land
the first time because as soon as he yelled, I
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knew he got and knew was a home run. And
I'm screaming. But lindor'sa said, same way he hits it
and the way he just ran it, he got it.
He got it. You can just tell. But at a game,
just watch the outfielders. Don't don't try to find the
ball and go, oh my good. Look at the outfields
and you see when you if you see them sprinting
back to the fence, you know what's gonna be. Jason
Ray Charles knew this was it?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Out uh Ron Darling deadpan was really good.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
That was That wasn't out, Bob, Bob, that was yet.
That was a nice What the hell are you watching, dude?
That was that wasn't out? Okay, Wow, what a play?
Really it was nice. Okay, that's great. Let's okay, here's
here's what's going on. Now what do we have here?
So there you go, express pros pro of the weekend.
Then that call bye, Bob costas Uh. The world had
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been waiting for the last twenty four hours to hear
Aaron Rodgers talk about the role he had or didn't
have in the firing of Robert Slam all day yesterday. Oh,
Rogers had to be the guy behind it. He talked
to what he had Johnson. I'm sure it's not happening
without Woody Johnson's knowledge, all of these different things. Here,
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Aaron Rodgers was today pushing his appearance on Pat McAfee
by a day. Hey man, bad optic. If I come
on today, how about if I come on tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
You know, I really needed to get my sensibility and
my statement ready.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
So here's Aaron Rodgers today talking about the accusations and
the insinuations that he had something to do with Robert
Sala getting let go by the Jets.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
As far as any of the ridiculous allegations out there.
I'm not going to spend more than one sentence in
response to it, and that is that I resent any
of those accusations because they're patently false. And it's interesting
the amount of power that people think that I have,
which I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
All right, I did not have gom it's a full
Clinton Kno, you kind of sounded like I don't walk
your life. There's two big takeaways from this, right, not
only why I'll tell you what. The big thing is
with Aaron Rodgers saying this, I'll tell you the moment
that I believe Woody Johnson knew he was firing Robert slap.
(22:56):
It doesn't matter what Aaron Rodgers says. Like Moneyball Billy
Bean says, his defense does not matter. Haddiberg's defense does
not matter. What Aaron Rodgers says does not matter. Because
if you could say, oh, Aaron Rodgers, he's coach killing
here's another coach. Yeah. The guy has had a Hall
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of Fame career. He has killed coaches before. If he
was younger, he would do it again. He's found the
Halloween season. He's found a way to get to Super Bowls.
He's found a way to win Super Bowls. He's found
a way to win ACP to win well, get to Okay,
well he got to he got to Super Bowls. He
lost what he won. One that was doing the grammar
(23:36):
was correct. Uh, he's found a way to win MVPs
when he couldn't get along with anybody on his coaching staff.
So what he says, whether it's his fault or not, whatever,
Woody Johnson Sarry didn't say, it doesn't matter because the
Jets weren't getting better with the situation they had. Robert Sala,
I told you is a bad coach, and it doesn't
matter what Aaron Rodgers said or didn't say. Oh, Sla
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only had five games there. We had three plus seasons
of Robert Sola. I had a lot of time to
look and go. This guy's not a good coach. I
told your from beginning. He's not a good coach. And
it doesn't matter if Aaron Rodgers got him out because oh,
but he wanted to give him more of a chance. No,
I've seen him coach. I know the team's not good.
I know that they're still having the same problems they
had before Aaron Rodgers got there. They're still undisciplined, they
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come had too many bad penalties. There's no accountability and
the players had had it right when I saw Quincy
Williams and the players talking about accountability and Aaron Rodgers saying, well,
I don't think it's about pre snap calls and cadence.
I knew that that Robert Sala was going to be
done at some point. I thought it would be after
Monday with the Bills game. The Jets just did it earlier.
It just because Aaron Rodgers may or may not have
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been the Domino doesn't mean that they let go of coach.
Oh you man him a goodness, you let go Bill Belichick,
you let go Vince Lombardi. No, he wasn't good, and
that's why they made the decision. However, they got to it.
They understood that we need this season to mean something
and are we willing to roll the dice on a
guy that we have a lot of that There's been
a big sample size on Robert Sala. Not as much
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on Aaron Rodgers, but a big sample size on Robert Sala.
Are we gonna get to a point where we're gonna
have the sample size on Rogers and say, well, Rogers
is good enough or not. Absolutely, we don't have that
right now, but we know the sample size on Robert
Sala didn't work. That's why they let him go. And
whatever Rogers said or not, that's irrelevant because the Jets
needed to make a change.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Well, I mean, no matter what he says, perception is reality,
and Aaron Rodgers has a pr problem. So he was
already at a at a loss before he opened his mouth, right,
and then he gets on on a platform where everybody's
just gonna not go yeah, yeah, all right, like they're
gonna snap like he's doing uh poetry at the at
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the local coffeehouse when he's finished slam.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Poetry night, slam slam poetry, like it's nineteen ninety four.
I'm gonna I'm gonna wear I'm gonna wear in the background,
Hey God, I'm gonna wear my I'm gonna wear my
Doc Martin's slam poetry.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
But the reality is, we watched Robert Salah, and I
think everybody can stimulate to the fact the man's a
good defensive coach. The metrics are good, the analytics, I mean,
the dumb penalties time it again, which again comes from coaching.
No matter what you want to say, and the special
teams has done really well. Great, there's two thirds of
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your team. The offense needs to be figured out. And
to just say, all right, it's all Aaron's responsibility. No,
the head coach is still in charge of all of it.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
We talked about it earlier in the week.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
The idea of hey, he finally started attending quarterback meetings.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, Jeem's like something that's part of your job, part
of your schedule. You're twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I'm sorry you don't get to run stares for a
half hour or something. Get your ass in the conference
room and figure out what's going on, especially with the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
You add, yeah, the other two pacee commercial I can do.
I can still come to that. But all of that
to say, just because.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Rogers right now is not playing well right, if we're honest,
And the accountability thing I think was for everybody, which
might have been a little bit of a hey, Aaron,
some of this is on YouTube because you're you're committing
some pretty bad turnovers in this process. Now he's been
betrayed by his receivers a number of times, and the
run games ineffective. Why because the play calling is terrible.
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The getting the signals in from the sideline has been
an absolute joke. You see him getting ready to run
to the sideline and take the play sheet and club
Nathaniel Hackett time and time again based on how slowly
things are being communicated. But all of that to say, no,
no matter what they turn on it, it's.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Gonna suddenly make Robert Salah a great head coach. Look
and I'll tell you this. I'll go a step further.
I'll tell you the moment that I believe Woody Johnson
knew he was firing Sala. All right, They've been debated
all the last twenty four hours. We find out he
was really mad after the Broncos game, Hey join the club.
But I guarantee you this was the moment. On Monday
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Sala gave his press and he was probably thinking about it.
I'm gonna do it. And Sala gave his press conference
and they asked about the two and three start and
how they're gonna go from here, and Robert Salaz said, look, guys,
no one in this building is panicked, right, No one
in this building is panicked. And I guarantee you that
was the last straw that's what put it over the
top and what he Johnson knew. I have to let
him go because how could you not at least at
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least intimate that there's the sense of urgency. You just
lost two bad games. You lost one game to a
team you should have never lost to. You go to
London and lose a game to your old quarterback, and
your offense is terrible, and I'm still watching the same
mistakes that your team is making. And when you're making
the same mistakes and you say, no one in this
building is panicked, Now, dude, that's not the right answer.
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I get that you don't want to have the public
image of hey, everything is crazy and alarm bells are sounding.
But when you give that, hey, no one in this
building is panicked, you have not given me a reason
to think that you're in control of this. And I
want to see a sense of urgency from you, and
I have not seen that sense of urgency. So with
all that going in now, I'm gonna cut Tomorrow's a
day he's done. I'm firing tomorrow. I guarantee you that
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was the final final straw of Woody Johnson. Word's okay,
I'm gonna let him go. And then that happened. It
was okay, now I'm gonna do it tomorrow. And now
he's all I know is this Joe Douglas clipped that off. Everything.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Woody Johnson had to say, like, this is my resume.
If he decides suddenly to cut me loose, tell me
what a great roster I assembled.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
We've ever had great roster. All of this.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
He was blowing smoke up like something was like wow
with Joe Douglas, is he no?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
He was blowing kisses his way about what the roster?
Oh yeah, well look he's drafted well and he look,
Joe Douglas, Now his job is safe because he's done.
He's He's given you the groceries, right, it's if you
can't make a good meal, it's not his fault, right,
I've given you the groceries. Everything you want. I brought him.
Son chokes, goju jang. You had everything you need. You
got the same Jason. If he lands Davante.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Well but that's it. You got Davante. And Reddick needs
to come back in that door because you need him.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, Reddick might be a lost cause at this point,
because is the guy really going to be ready to
play devant Adams.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I need him to rush ten times a game, that's
all I need.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I have more confidence they'll swing a trade for Adams
and they will getting us on Reddick. I have more
confidence ready for the Adams administration. Johan Adams. That's that
little guy who spoke to me. Uh, what's trending in
the wide world of sports? From Hercules Mulligan Monte, she
(30:38):
has what's trending.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
I just can't get over you saying that Grimace was
like Stonehenge.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
That people are making pilgrimage. That's what it is.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
I heard that and I just couldn't you know, I.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Really just are you? Are you a Breaking Bad? Fans?
You watch Breaking Bad? I did not like it. Okay,
maybe I need to try it again.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
I like, I tried like the first two three episodes,
and I don't know if the hype was too big
and I tried it, but.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Maybe I need to go back.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Everyone just loves it.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
But yeah, but to be more I mean, obviously people
still go see stones, but to get more current, remember
the scene when the brothers were crawled to the to
the icon they were going to go to and they
decided they were worse bring this religious icon and they
got on the ground and they crawled to it or whatever.
That's like what people are doing for grim up there. Yeah, yeah, no,
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I I believe it.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I believe it.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
I really do, because I mean, he is the reason
you guys are are where you are.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
MVP first, Tayn Lindor.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
All Right, the Mets are the first team to punch
their ticket to the next round. They're headed to the
NLCS after defeating the Phillies four to one behind a
grand slam from Francisco Lindor. Here is right fielder for
the Phillies, Nick Castellanos, give them their credit.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I beat us. Is there a lot of things that
we could have done better? Yes?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Is there are things that we could have done different? Yes?
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Do I think that they are a better team than us? No,
what this series they were.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
They are not the better team, Jason. That's what Nick
costallanis said, may.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Be the only interview himself. He was asking to answer
his own questions. And I do want to say, Nick
Costeano said going into Game four, all the Mets don't
want to come back to Philadelphia for Game five, So
he was right. I want to say thank you for
the invitation but we have the NLCS. The other is
we'll see you in CB Park next year.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
The probably response was dull, we'll see next year, yes.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Right, yes, yes, it's on.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
The Tigers blank the Guardians for a second game in
a row. So if you're keeping track, Cleveland has gone
twenty innings without scoring a run. Tigers now lead the
series two to one after beating them three zero.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Really only twenty innings that they haven't scored in a
consecutive since there we go twenty innings.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Since team one.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
The Yankees edge of the Royals three to two. Gian
Carlos stand with the go ahead home in the eighth inning.
They now lead the series two to one, and the
the Years have forced a Game five against the Padres,
which will be on Friday here in LA, after shutting
them out eight and zero in San Diego. Three Dodger homers,
first Mookie Bets, then Will Smith, then Gavin Lux. Thursday
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night football between the forty nine Ers and the Seahawks.
Forty nine Ers tight end George Kittle off the injury report,
so he's gonna play. Eagles wide receivers AJ Brown and
Davonte Smith were full participants in practice today Colts wide
receiver Michael Pittman Junior is expected to miss several weeks
with a back injury that could land him on injured reserve.
This is according to ESPN. With Derek Carr's recent oblique injury,
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the Saints are going to be starting rooky quarterback Spencer
Rattler on Sunday against the Buccaneers, and the Raiders announced
that they're going to be starting eight In O'Connell at
quarterback against the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Wide receiver Davonte Adams not.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Expected to play, and the Texans have officially placed wide
receiver Nico Collins on injured reserve. Guys, it's been fun
back to you.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Thank you very much much. Yes. Coming up next, appreciation
moments for two people who absolutely deserved them after what
they did today. None of them are Mets. One's a
players in the job she always I always appreciate Monty
in the job she does. But we will have the
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one player and the one manager. We'll have that coming
up next. This is Fox Sports Radio. You're ready, hang
on many years since Grimace was here, lind Or homerd
we got to the playoffs, then Alonzo hit a three
run jack we knocked the Brewers out of the playoffs.
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The Paul was out of sight, but then tonight, alright,
shut up, here's Lindor with the bases loaded in the
bottom of the sixth inning and a grand slam. You
better believe the Mets are back back in the LCS.
They're back back in the LCS, and the Phillies had
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to go back back for the off season, dropping the mic.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (35:13):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon live from the tire rack dot Com studios.
Uh time for an appreciation moment for two people from tonight.
Neither of them are Met s don'orry, Alex Tye Shirt
and Justin Frost. Always always appreciate them. The first one
is this, uh.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Gen.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Carlos Stanton has not had the smoothest time as a Yankee, No, no,
but tonight the stolen base, the home run to give
the Yankees a three to win over the Royals. It's
his best day as a Yankee. Now. I'm sure the
Yankees would have wanted this to happen you know years ago, well, uh,
you know when Peter decided I'm going to give you
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this guy.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Everybody wants their kid to be a star right away
and get that job and be on their merry way.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Sometimes it takes time. But this is the biggest day
he has had as a Yankee, the most clutch home run.
He has never been a Yankee more than he is today.
And you know, when you put a team one game
away from moving on to the league championship series, I
just appreciate. Look, this is a really talented guy who's
always been incredibly talented, has not been able to stay healthy,
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not been able to stay in the lineup. But when
he is healthy, he's the biggest, most powerful home run
here we've seen in baseball the last ten to twelve years.
And to see him get that big hit tonight and
finally get one night where hey, everybody loves me, the
Yankee fans finally love me, that's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Yeah, Big Mike gets it done. I mean, come on,
he also hey, he was Mike wants a boon of time.
I have trading cards that prove it. Okay, But for Stan,
I mean, he's been the butt of how many jokes right,
not in the lineup, the amount of games he's missed
due to injury. You always get the graphic of salary
paid out and all that stuff, because that that's what
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you do with a high priced guy that can't stand
a lot. Look at what they did in Anaheim when
they do pay attention in Anaheim with Anthony Rendon, wasn't
about anything he actually got to do on the field,
you know those few times he was on it. It
was this is how much we're paying for a guy
and a contract that went beat for Stanton.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
For the most part, it's been viewed.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
As a terrible contract, particularly when you go in contrast
to Aaron Judge, who he's been compared to Bill to
put you're looking at some of the best years we've
seen in baseball in the last twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
What Iron Judge is doing, right, But I mean, you
look at Charls.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Stanton is a guy that for his career, despite I mean,
he had twenty seven home runs this year, first career,
he's at for twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
All right, man, that's that's pretty healthy a lot.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
That's a lot of home runs, and that means you've
had a really good run Unfortunately he's not been available
in stretches where they truly needed him, and for the
postseason oftentimes invisible.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Today's a big game. Where's the respect meter from your dad?
On on Mike? You know he is he's he's not.
Oh yeah, yeah, an. He always wants the right guys
to He wanted about time, about time. Let's see what
he does in the next game like that, my dad,
Yeah yeah, but what judge is his guy judges? My
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dad's guys can't come through every game. No, but it
doesn't matter. I'm telling you how it goes. That's my dad.
Has he embraced jazz Chisholm. He loves jazz. He goes
just what we needed, just what we needed love. But Carlos,
So what he does tomorrow, let's see that. Okay, thanks Dad,
look the other guy to give you appreciation moment for
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Dave Roberts managed the best game of his Dodgers career tonight,
hands down. The pressure on the team, the pressure on
him knowing that a loss probably means he was going
to be fired, having to go to a bullpen game.
Despite the fact the Dodgers paid a billion dollars in
salary to players last year, and here you are in
a bullpen game, and not only does he take the
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pressure off the team, he goes eight for bleeping eight
in bullpen guys tonight, everybody pitches it. He was like
an All Star game. You pitched it and you're out.
He goes eight for eight, bringing the right guys in
to shut out the Padres. Not just win. Hey we
won eight seven, we escape, We're going back to La.
This was a dominant victory by the bullpen, and to
go eight for eight, this is the game. He should
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hang this in his own personal loove. This is that
kind of game for Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
They got after c surly, you get eight for eight,
and the fact that you held them to zero for nine,
runners in scoring position, making big pitches when they needed to,
and pulled the strings really well. I mean, Dave Roberts
the epitome of calm. As we get ready for Game
five on Friday, let's go first. We got Thursday Night
football tomorrow. Yeah, the forty nine ers. Everybody's nervous, My buddy,
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