October 30, 2025 • 34 mins
We bring you the proud dad moment for Steve Schneider as he reacts to his son Davis' leadoff home run in Game 5 of the World Series. And the guy’s debate if Austin Reaves has leveled up becoming the newest NBA superstar!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon, Live from the Fox
Sports Radio Studios, where a reversal of fortune. I didn't
think two days ago, after Freddie Freeman hit said walk
off home run, we'd be talking about the Blue Jays
(00:49):
still even in the World Series, much less leading at
three games to two. After they beat the Dodgers tonight
six to one the World Series, that big hunk of
metal that Rob Manfred loves would be awarded to one
of these teams now in Canada in the next few days. Crazy,
we have to go across the border.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
And Dave Roberts had his jokes and whatever about the
plane being delayed when they came back the first time.
One question I had from the in game though, Hm,
we always see Rob Manford and to his what was
it TV left is Joe Tory? Yeah, Joe Torrey never
looks happy to be sitting there with Rob Manford. Would
you tractually obligated to sit there? Rob Manford hates baseball,
(01:34):
Joe Tory loves baseball. Of course you want to sit
next to Rob Manford? Come on, I mean, is he
contractually obligated.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
To sit with him? Can he go somewhere else in
that box and go hide and by the dip or something?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I get I guess. I guess he maybe doesn't have
a choice. I got it. I got to sit next
to them. I gotta give him gravitas. I got to
show him that a guy who's universally loved in the
game like me is sitting next to a guy that's
universally hated in the game like him. So we get yah,
Because I really do think you bring up a good point,
because stuff like that, absolutely I think is is UH
(02:08):
made for TV events. You see stuff in the stands
in big games, not just regular games, not just let
but in the World Series, Super Bowl, UH, college Football Playoff,
NBA player certain things are seen because they want to
be seen that way. Like I always go back to this,
like I remember when when Fox first got the World Series,
going all the way back to like the early two thousands, right,
(02:30):
and World Series started to become on Fox, and one
of Fox's big shows was Ali mcpeel and there was
in Callista Flockhart was the star, and there was always
this big thing that, oh, she's so skinny, she's too skinny,
She's this, she's that, And there was there was a
whole big right right before social media hit it. There
was something that was on the Internet every day. People
were blogging about it, she's too skinny, she's too skinny.
(02:52):
And so I'm saying, oh wow, what a coincidence that
they showed her at the World Series game eating a
hot dog? Right, they make you, Hey, let's show her
on TV and hot to people understand she eats Okay,
she eats food. I understand, understand. So ever since that moment,
I get yeah. Even now when it comes to cutaways,
I think networks or or or the sport, hey wants
(03:13):
things to be seen a certain way, Like you think
they cut away to the stands. They want to see
who Roger Goodell is talking to Sure in the stands
in the owner's box, much like, Hey, Joe Tory is
one of the biggest, most beloved people in baseball who
you can ask him or say, hey, why don't you
sit next to the commissioner because everybody hates the commissioner.
(03:34):
Everybody hates him around this time. We don't want that.
So hey, if Joe Tory is sitting next to her, Hey,
maybe Rob Manfred's not a bad guy because Joe Tory
is sitting next to him. How cool is that?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, the rest of the pairings are fun too, though, right,
I mean, and look, it's made for TV. Right, there
would have been an Ali McBeal promo after they showed
her eating the hot dog you got.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Chock got shot.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
The dancing baby dancing the dancing baby. Wow. Wow, Know
you had such a hatred for a TV meme that's
twenty years old. Yes, I hate the dancing ba It
just looked weird exactly. But but all of that, it's like,
all right, there's Bateman and Hayes, they do a podcast,
whatever else, Big Stars, everything else, yesterday, the fun one.
(04:19):
I want to go sit with these guys. Brad Pitton
flee Yeah, there must be some kind of kind of cool, right, Yeah,
the show Flee, Yeah yeah, I wonder, I wonder how
that conversation goes.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I don't know. This is kind of funny though.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And the only guy that wasn't wearing a Dodger jersey
that they, you know, brandished upon him as he as
he showed up was Leo DiCaprio two straight days.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Les No, no Dodger Man.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Leo.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
He doesn't, he doesn't do that. Leo doesn't do that.
He's not I remember running into him after a holiday.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
He's not a he's not a jersey where and he's like,
I'm Leo, I'm here, like the star. I have the
I have the the baseball hat and the jacket and
the the monochrome T shirt that matches that that that
goes with the pants. Like what what celebrities are wearing
every time they get photographed at LAX Like that's Leo.
Like I get addressed like that, and I kind of
(05:10):
like dressing like that, as you see, I kind of
like dressing. Yeah, I gotta like that.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
You got to speak it into existence, right, It's like
wanting greater things in your career now coming off of
this game, there's a there's a couple of things to
say and and and I know I can sum up
the World Series and where the Dodgers are to this point, but.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
First you're just going to scream, because I.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Think that would Dodger fan not happy, like the cal
Rally screen. Now, the first thing is this is that
when the World Series began, I said, this Dodgers team
reminds me a lot of the twenty fifteen Mets. Why
because the twenty fifteen Mets were built on starting pitching.
(05:52):
And in the NLCS against the Cubs, they went through
a hot hitting Cubs team and it was easy. It
was wow. It was Harvey and cinder Guard and de
Gram and Matts and it was four games and the
Mets around of the World Series and what happened. I
was worried the same thing. Then, this is ten years ago,
same thing. Now, Mets starting pitching is gonna get a
bounce in the World Series and it doesn't need to
(06:14):
be where they pitched terribly, but they're not gonna pitch
like that again. So they gotta make sure they hit.
And that's what's going on with the Dodgers right now.
We said going into the World Series they're gonna get
a bounce. They're not gonna pitch like this doesn't mean
the starting pitching is gonna fall off the face of
the earth. But they're gonna have to hit more because
they haven't hit the entire playoffs. But they gotta hit
(06:35):
at some point, but knowing they're gonna have to make
up for it because they're gonna get a little bit
of a bounce. So what have we seen through the
first five games so far? Blake Snell not great in
game one, Yamamoto great in game two. Game three, Tyler
Glassnell okay enough but still allowed runs. Yes, he was
done in by an error, but still allowed the ball
to be hit over the fence. You have Game four,
(06:57):
which was last night, which Showani was okay, but he
left with nobody on, nobody out, and two on and
wound up giving up four runs and seven innings. And
now you saw it tonight. Blake Snell wasn't terrible, but
gives up two home runs of the first two batters,
and all of a sudden, the Dodgers are playing from
a deficit. They don't recovery give he gives up another
run thanks to Taskar Hernandez's misadventures in the outfield, the
(07:20):
bullpen gives up a couple of more and they wind
up losing six to one. We knew this was gonna happen,
and the Dodgers hitting, the Dodgers' lack of hitting is
what's absolutely killed You can you can talk about the
bullpen being bad. We do. The bullpen was bad, the
starting pick. But that's what's exacerbating this is that knowing
full well you're not gonna pitch like this again, and
they're not. They're just a they're just one tick below
(07:43):
what they were in the NLCS. But that's been enough
so far for the Blue Jays to take control of
this series. Well that's what we watched it from all
all points.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Go back to the game yesterday, right when choeo Tani
came out for the for the last inning, was the
should they have gone to the bend?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
There? Right?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Clean gotten you pretty far into the game. Now, I
know you're short of arms after the marathon, but still
the question of all right, are you pushing the envelope?
Well you did, and it came back because once you
went to the pen, that was the end of it.
But all in the top of your orders, not hit
well at all. We've chronicled the misadventures of Mookie Bets
(08:22):
at the plate, but just go on down the lineup.
There's nobody that's given you consistent at bats through this
series and for much of the playoffs. Right, this isn't
even this is a new it's new because now they're
on the edge, but it's been there the whole time,
right late, under the surface of all. Right, at some
point you need to string together some hits. At some
(08:44):
point you need to draw a walk, which they did
not do today. Right, You need to force the issues,
put the ball in play, to force the defense to
make a play.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
That was the thing about the game that went eighteen innings,
is you at least put the bat on the ball.
So there were some opportunities and the Blue Jays were
up to the task defensively, but starting pitching wise, I
don't know how much more you can ask. Yeah, Blake
Snell gave up the two quick home runs, solo home runs.
You're down to nothing.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Battle back, Yeah, yeah, you're right, it is. And listen
to Rick Monday on the way and saying, hey, it's
only it's only like a run. And I'm saying, what
is he saying, and he goes, well, and he says, hey,
the Dodgers down to it before they come up to bat.
But think about it like this. You know it's too
nothing and it sounds daunting before you can even come
to bat. But you know you're gonna have to score
(09:35):
a run to win anyway, so really you're not going
to win, and lets you score a run. So really
it's like you're chasing one run and I'm going, okay,
I get that, but you're losing to nothing. No, I
understand the psychologist, you're losing two to nothing.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
But they get out of it.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
And we have those reviews because that looked like it
was going to get uglier. Yeah, right before and it
certainly stretched, which again maybe it's overrated because you're in
the the World Series.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
So pitch count.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
They reviewed everything in the first city.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
They can't.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
They reviewed Blake snell socks in the first inning. I
think these socks, so let's take a look and.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Say, well, they came out with the measuring tape and
everything came in, came off the utility belt.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
But here's the other here's the other thing where I
can encapsulate the the last few days in the World
Series to this point, and really Dodger playoffs till this point.
The Blue Jays have played and they have made stuff happen,
and that's been their strategy, and the Dodgers have been
sitting around waiting for something to happen. Now, you're not
(10:34):
gonna change strategies. Offensively, the Dodgers are a team that
shows up, hits the ball and just we're gonna out
talent you and show he's gonna get a hit, and
Mookie's gonna get a hit, and then you're gonna get
a big hit from Freddy and Munsey and Will Smith
who was hitting three twenty for most of the season.
Like that's how the Dodgers do it. But they're clearly
in a rut. And when you're in a rut, you
need to jump start away. And they're just going it's
(10:56):
like they're they're they're just going through the motions every
act back there there's no life, there's no hey, let's
grind it out a little bit now, right, you're not
gonna change your complete attitude, but hey, maybe when you're
not going well, yeah, I get that. Over the peaks
and valleys of a season, you're not gonna hit for
a couple of games. But this is the bleeping World
Series and you don't get twelve games to hit. This
(11:16):
is not best to thirty, right, you know, one more
and you're out. I expected to see better at bats
and the Dodgers, but still they've been a team that
the last couple of games has been sitting around. Go
back to the middle of Game three. They're sitting around
waiting for something to happen. Now you look at the
Blue Jays who went out and made stuff happen, right,
just look at tonight. For a reason, they came into
(11:37):
this first first inning of this game going, we are
gonna jump on Blake Snell's fastball. We're gonna jump on it.
We are hunting it because he thinks he's gonna cut.
We know, Blake Snell's gonna come in and he's gonna three,
you know, try to establish his fastball early in the
count for a strike. Let's go hunt it because we
can do some damage with it. And what happens first
pitch of the game fastball Blake Snell tried to throw
(11:59):
the boom or hunts it home run. His dad in
the stands is going absolutely nuts with that, which we'll
have more. I'm not coming up in a bit, but
his dad going nuts recording. You can't believe he had
a home run. And then he got vlad Juni your
same thing two pitches later. I'm hunting that fastball. Really
awkward swing, but you know he's looking for it because
he was able to turn on it side of the
plate and went right after it. Yeah, he turns on it,
(12:21):
puts the left field stands and suddenly it's too nothing
like this is We're going out to make something happen
here in Game five, and they did, and the Dodgers
were on their heels the entire game, and outside of
Kei k Hernandez's home run, that was it.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Like that was it.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
The Dodgers really didn't threaten a lot the rest of
the way. They had a runner on first a couple
of times, but you know they got to race the
double play. Like this is a team, Like they're just
sitting around saying, hey, we've done We're used to this. Man,
we're the champs and we've gone through this the last
few years. Something's gonna happen, right, Like maybe maybybe the
next guy or or or the guy after that, Like
something's gonna happen to the blue Jay just saying no blank,
(12:57):
this man, let's go out and take it. And they've
done it. They've gone out and taken this. And the
Dodgers have been too passive in how they've they've approached
these last two and a half games. And I don't
know if Dave Roberts thought, well, we're gonna change the
order a litt bit, that's gonna bark things up a bit.
I don't know about dropping Mookie Bets to third if
he's not hitting well second. I know that want and
hitting third that didn't work out tonight, you know, benching
(13:20):
pahz for call. Okay, you're talking about changing the ninth
batter in the order, like these are changes where they're, hey,
we we kind of want to see if maybe this
sill spark something, if maybe you know, where we're rubbing
the two sticks together and it's gonna the fire is
gonna come out eventually. Uh, it doesn't always work that way.
And and and I look at two completely different approaches
from a team. One is aggressive making it happen. One
(13:41):
is waiting. And if you're waiting for something to happen,
it's never gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Team batting average Toronto two sixty one, the Dodgers just
above the two hundred level. Uh will round up to
two oh one fifty five strikeouts in one hundred and
eighty nine at bats. That is not good, now, not
what's that work?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Good?
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Speaker 1 (16:23):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Blue Jays win the World Series Game five, Ladies,
they leaded three to two after a six to one
victory tonight. Nobody had gotten in their seats. He had
at Dodger Stadium when Hey, we had back to back
home runs to start the game. David Schneider leading off
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for the Blue Jays homers on the first pitch to
left field. And this has been really fun, right. This
has been a big viral moment the past couple hours
because David Schneider's dad in the stands tonight taking video
of his sons at bat. Right, kind of cool, right, this.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Is pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And my son's batting, and of course David Schneider with
a home run leaving off the game. And this is
what it sounded like. This is this, this is It's
gonna be Schneider's dad who absolutely losing his mind over
his son getting hit. No, by the way, just really quick,
if you see David Schneider, he doesn't look like your
quinnessential leadoff man. It looks like he's from the seventies, right,
(17:29):
I mean, like you would say, this guy's a middle
infielder from the nineteen seventies, right like that that that's
this guy right here. This guy know, he's he's he's
somehow from the past and he was dropped into the
future to play a baseball game, which he grew up
watching Burt Reynolds films because everybody had a mustache, yeah,
mustache glasses like yeah, you know you you hit it
(17:50):
on that uraka. Yeah. Tim Foley was a good one, Yeah,
Tim Foley, Yeah, you know what, wearing.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
The pill box.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You know what if you put a picture Tim only
next David Schneider, you would say, is that his dad,
you would say, is that is maybe his dad is
Tim Foldy, but that really is that's a great like
I was saying, you know, like Kurk Bavaqua, you're right
with with that. Who was I thinking of earlier in
the show? Uh uh Johnny Parkins?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeahs straight out of Central Cast, all of the mustaches
and the and the and the glasses everything else.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
So he Homer's to lead off the game. That then
we got a home run from Vlad Junior, which you
know we we get all the time. But just think
about this for a second, right because you know you
and I both being sports parents and and and and
not not just about sports but everything else that you know,
we're we're in a generation right now where whenever one
of our kids does something, somebody's kid does something, you're there, Hey,
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you want to make sure you're recording it, right. You
don't know when their name is going to get said,
if it's an award for school, if it's something on
the on the field, you want to make but you
want to make sure you're recording. Now, just think about
this for a second. What if I mean Schneider's dad,
what if he was like, oh oh, I got to
get the phone ready. My son's up, and you're thinking, yeah,
I got time, I got time, and you're you know,
(19:08):
you're pressing the button, you're you're hitting the camera. You're
gonna get the video, and you hear the crack of
the bat and the ball's gone. So not only would
you miss it because you don't get your phone up
in time, but you would miss seeing it because as
you're reaching for your phone, right out of my phone
ready to go.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Yeah, I know that that would That is the worst.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I mean, we've all had those moments where all of
a sudden the play changes softball, soccer, You soccer. For me,
it's like, all of a sudden, you're in transition and
it's like you're trying to keep your eyes up.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
You fumble the phone, and it's like, did.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Anybody get that? Anybody got did you get that? You know,
who's the worst of the big camera is supposed to
get that?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Right?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Do you think I got it?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
The worst at that? And I could say it because
he's sleeping, I'm all worst at that?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Is my dad?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Right?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
So we went we went to.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
A uh A couple of weeks ago, we went to
a an event, an acting event for Zoe that she
was in with her school. And so we're like, okay,
and it's a short thing and we're gonna we're you know,
we said, okay, we always figured it out like between
Pam and I, one of us will take pictures, one
of us will take video. Right, that's what we do. Okay, great,
we figured that out. Okay great. So now because Pam
(20:17):
was actually working this, like it was up to me
and my dad, I said, okay, I said, what do
you want to do? Dad? Pictures of video? And he says, oh,
I'll do the I'll do the video. I said, okay, great,
I'll do the pictures. Right. So okay, so I take
the pen and this thing is like, you know, there's
a but this one is like a minute long, Like okay, great.
So I'm taking the pictures and I'm trying to you know,
and the thing is is that I'm not just taking
a whole bunch in a row. I'm trying to find
(20:39):
a good way to frame it all. That's gonna be
a good picture. That's gonna be a good picture. So
I figure get artistic here. Yeah, Well, because I use
the portrait mode. Oh yeah, oh my god. The portrait
one makes you look like a real life photographer. Like
I love showing the portrait mode photos to people that
don't know about it on the phone and go, yeah,
that's just you know, it's the industry. Now, I gotta
I gotta adapter died. That's one of these I'll get
you good pictures right here. People don't know. Oh my god,
(21:01):
the portrait will make you look like a genius. So
I'm taking the pictures and I look over and my
dad is standing there and he's got the phone up
and he's I'm like, okay, Greg, he's got the video. Okay,
so finished, we finished, and I go and I turned,
I go how to go? And he goes, hey, oh crap,
And I said, don't don't crap me, Dad, don't don't
do crap.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Okrackers, I thought I was recording.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Oh no, Like.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Apparently he fat fingered the button and like thought he
pressed it, but he didn't. He pressed someone close to it.
So he's just so the whole time he was just
folding there holding the phone.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I'm like, don't you see doing a yoga posy? That boy?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Don't you see it's not recording, Dad, Don't you think dad,
just press the button, Dad, press the button. That's my dad,
did that?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
I can only someone else pick up for you? Say
someone else? I mean no, no, no?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Then pan, hey, then to the network of parents, does
anybody have the video of this? And he said, and
luckily somebody, Oh yeah, sure sureget said no, no, see.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
This is where you said we should all exchange videos.
We should all Why don't we do a group for me?
Oh did you forget.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
To send yours? Yeah? I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
So here's what it sounded like earlier tonight. The big
home run by David Schneider, his dad very excited to
be a proud dad. No, why, no, why God, Steve Schneider,
(22:37):
there it is. I think he was excited. He was
Rob Schneider, tiny.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Home run, home run, a loser home run home run up.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I gotta give him credit, right, this is live and
in living color. And he did a point where he
started to screaming and he was about to drop an
F bomb, and he paused and he caught himself and
kept it. I mean, look, and it was almost like
he was broadcasting to Canada, and the light nature of
Canadians meant that he couldn't curse.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
And the funny thing is is that, like we're in
an error where when something big is going on at
a sporting event, you get, hey, I want to get
video with this, and then you get half the people say,
just enjoy the game. There's gonna be video if you
want it after you're gonna get to see it everywhere.
And David Schneider tells it. Told his dad, don't film
my at beats. He said, don't film the All the
bats are all on TV from all kinds of different angles. Dad,
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these are four cake cameras. You're gonna get everything. Schneider said, Yeah,
I don't always listen to him. I like getting everybody's
reaction after it. So I'm taking the video and and
this is a great thing for me to be out
there in the world because you just hear the dadness
in him of after the home run.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Now, I wonder if the front part of it is edited,
because he was saying, watch this, he's gonna jump all
over this fastball.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
He's waiting dead red.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
And he's gonna absolutely murder it as soon as it
comes off Snell's hand.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, my kid told me he's swinging fast basketball first
pitch because that's the standing report on Blake Snell. We're going, we're.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Going, you can struggle that fastball game one. So that's
why Davis got moved to the top of the order.
So he's ready to get pounced again. They were hunting fastballs.
Now the other thing from tonight, right, because the two
the two big things with the with with the Dodgers
we've talked about. We talked about the bounce of the
pitching staff and we said, you know, the Dodger defense
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is not great and and really it's it's come down
to one player that the ball always seems to find
him in a bad spot, and that's Tioscar Hernandez. Nobody
keeps both teams in the game like Taioscar Hernandez. What
he does back thrill Dodgers and then what he does
in the field on the base pats for the other
team like he is. I mean, he may be responsible
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for more runs than anybody in baseball. When you think
the fact that, well he's responsible runs for the Dodgers
and whoever the Dodgers play, do you.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Get credit for that run generation?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I think you should next time for his next contract. Hey,
I generated fourteen runs in the World Series. Yes, six
for us and eight for them, doesn't matter. We don't
we do fourteen runs. That math doesn't make sense to us.
How did you come to the summer? It's like, oh,
it's the other side. Yeah, fourteen runs, man, that's what
we did. Fourteen runs. Uh. But this is how big
we talk about defense is. And I said, you know,
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the Dodger defense, it's it's not great, and it's gonna
again something become of the twenty fifteen Mets. You can
miss a couple of plays, but eventually it's gonna come
back to bite you. And Taoscar Hernandez misplaying var Show's
ball that turned into a triple instead of a runner.
At first, that run was absolutely deflating for the Dodgers
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because they had cut it to two to one run
and to Oscar Hernandez, for some thinks he can make
that play and he can't because he's awful in the field.
But what are you gonna do? You gotta keep him
on the field because he hits, but he can't play.
But he can't he can't dh because Otani can't be
on the field. So what the hell are you gonna do? Man?
What are you gonna do. There's nothing you can do.
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You have to try to hide him when you can,
but you can't. The ball seems to find him. But
that was such a deflat that's the biggest play. You know,
you talk about the two home runs, all right, there's
still a long, a long game to play, but that run,
you could tell that took all the air out of
the stadium. And it was now it's three to one.
You know, we get back that run with Kik. You know,
we're having trouble scoring runs. Maybe we can squeeze out
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one more here or there. We get a couple of
runners on, but that run like two runs now with
the Blue Jays over the Dodgers in this series now
feels like seven, Like the Bleegers got to three four one.
I'm like that this is over. The Dodgers just aren't hitting,
so that that run and that play was so deflating,
especially when I get that things aren't going your way
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and you want to try to make a hero play.
But the play right there is keep it in front
of you, don't make up, don't make a bad play worse.
And the bad play for the Dodgers was this is
gonna drop in for a single. Okay, that's one nothing
you can do. Don't make it worse by turning into
a triple. And that's exactly what That's exactly what happened.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Dives gets under his glove, goes to the wall and
off to third goes of our show. What was interesting, right,
that's the fourth So you just battle back. You got
that that huge run. And this goes to the overall philosophy.
It's seems that the Dodgers are always waiting for the
big fly as the bailout, as opposed to get them on,
get them over, get them in, and it's who they are,
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and you push right. Your identity changes year to year.
A lot of folks saying, well, this is what the
twenty twenty four team would be. Yeah, I know they
didn't change a lot of the principal players, but they
played differently this year and with Taskar Ernandez. Look, you
can't have seven dhs. We were talking about this a
little bit before we came on air at all is
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that the field?
Speaker 4 (27:47):
You got a lot of guys you'd like to hide.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
I got you know, you got Freddy Freeman who probably
helped boost by saving a bunch of balls in the dirt,
making Mookie Betts a goal glove finalist. Okay, cool, there's
two and then occasionally you steal from from bits and
pieces Will Smith behind the plate and all. But it's
just a difficult proposition. And for Teoscar Hernandez, he came
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up at the in the home half of the fourth,
is like, hey, here's an opportunity to get about any
and he promptly ripped a single back up the middle.
It's like, okay, so now there's two runners on got
a little something and that was vanquished rather quickly. But
it is to that point, right, you have three wild pitches,
You've got guys in the field that it's they had
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them several bobbles, right, we had that challenge in the
first inning. Like nothing went cleanly or smoothly for the
Dodgers at all in this game. And it's really just
been the hallmark of this series. But you know already
you're getting the big thought pieces of well, how do
you shake this up? Because they've been tied to every
free agent. That's just the fun for being a Dodger
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fan and being around and certainly in Los Angeles, the
everybody's a future Dodger or future Laker, but now it's
future Dodger if they have a high, you know, ticket
price associated with them. But the first thing you gonna
do is go find someone that you trust defensively help
your pitching staff that much more. Maybe the relievers will
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pitch a little free or in easier if they're not
worried about what's behind them. If it goes into play The.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Love from the Fox
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the birth of a new superstar in the NBA. But first,
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Speaker 4 (29:33):
Why thank you?
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Fellasan was trending Game five of the World Series Wednesday night.
Here's how the final out sounded on Toronto station CJCL.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
First now sets, he kicks to two, slang in a miss,
strike three, Hoffman punches out Hernandez. The Blue Jays intominate
fashion wins six to one in Game five, and they'll
come home with a three two lead in the World Series.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
The most dominant starting pitcher Trey Y Savage, who said
a World Series rookie record with twelve strikeouts in seven innings.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
For the win.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
He allowed one run on two hits with no walks. Offensively,
David Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Junior let off the game
with back to back home runs, first time that's ever
happened in seven hundred and five all time World Series games.
Multiple outlets support. The Minnesota Twins are hiring Derek Shelton
as their new manager. In the NBA, on Wednesday night,
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Austin Reeves hit a twelve foot runner at the buzzer
to give the Los Angeles Lakers a one sixteen, one
fifteen victory at Minnesota. John Moran's nine foot runner with
seven points six to play gave Memphis a one fourteen,
one thirteen triumph at Phoenix, and Nikola Jokich had a
twenty one point, twelve rebound, ten assist triple double in
(30:52):
Denver's one twenty two to eighty eight win over the
New Orleans Pelicans, who are now oh to four guys
all yours.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Thank you, Eilo, you mentioned the biggest highlight of the night.
In the NBA, Austin Reeves twenty eight points, including the
game winner, for a game the Lakers had no business winning.
In Minnesota. They blow a lead late, Minnesota gets the
go ahead bucket with ten seconds left. They're jumping up
and down like they're going to the NBA Finals, and
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then Austin Reeves twenty eight point night hits the runner
in the lane. Lakers win this last three games for
Austin Reeves, who, oh, by the way, is third in
the league in scoring his night tonight forty points against
the Blazers, fifty points against the Kings. He has become
a superstar in the league. And it happens really fast, right,
(31:43):
Guys become great players and they level up really quickly.
Austin Reeves has leveled up from the beginning of this season.
He's gone from hey, he's a nice number three player
that potentially could be great in a championship team, or
he could be somebody who you trade bring in a
better player who's gonna be Luca's number two eventually, because
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you know they want to get rid of Lebron James
after this year. No, Luca is the one and Austin
Reeves is the two. He has become a star. He
has become the Scottie Pippen to Luca's Michael Jordan. He
is that good. He's always been good, but now he
is leveled up. He has nearly pulled off three games
for the Lakers in a row single handedly, and the
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win tonight when nobody else has taken that shot at
the end, there's nobody else that's going to do any
kind of damage. Lakers have a bunch of guys right
now with no Luca and no Lebron. Yeah, Austin Reeves
has leveled up into the star category of the NBA,
and now the Lakers have to say, well, now we
have a backcourt that no one's gonna be able to
beat and Luca and Austin Reeves. Now, hey, Lebron when
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you come back the number three option, hey good luck.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
No.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
But now it's easier to move on from Lebron. It's
easier to try to get supporting casts when you know, hey,
we're not looking for a number two or a one A,
we're looking for a three because we have our one
in our one air one in R two and it's
Luca and Austin Reeves. He's done that much just in
the last few.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Days, completely displacing Ruby Hachimura as that guy. But all
of a sudden, what's also interesting here. Laavia has himself
a big game. He's got to watch first round pick
this year, see what he does, because certainly last year's
first round pick doesn't see a lot of time war
shots as that goes. But when we look at this,
(33:25):
Reeves seems to have taken. Once upon a time, Lebron
James wore the headband with great regularity. No, no, no,
there's a new headband in town. It is the Austin
Reeves Show. Becoming a Folk Hero Now, Exit ab out
of Fresca, Exit Swelling Dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live
from the Fox Sports Radio Studios, The.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Birth of a new superstar in the NBA. Congratulations Austin
Reeves and Los Angeles clearly needed that tonight. Coming up next,
big hot take coming off a Game five of the
World Series, and we preview Thursday Night.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Football, the Return of Lamar.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon, Live from the Fox
Sports Radio Studios, where a reversal of fortune. I didn't
think two days ago, after Freddie Freeman hit said walk
off home run, we'd be talking about the Blue Jays
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still even in the World Series, much less leading at
three games to two. After they beat the Dodgers tonight
six to one the World Series, that big hunk of
metal that Rob Manfred loves would be awarded to one
of these teams now in Canada in the next few days. Crazy,
we have to go across the border.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
And Dave Roberts had his jokes and whatever about the
plane being delayed when they came back the first time.
One question I had from the in game though, Hm,
we always see Rob Manford and to his what was
it TV left is Joe Tory? Yeah, Joe Torrey never
looks happy to be sitting there with Rob Manford. Would
you tractually obligated to sit there? Rob Manford hates baseball,
(01:34):
Joe Tory loves baseball. Of course you want to sit
next to Rob Manford? Come on, I mean, is he
contractually obligated.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
To sit with him? Can he go somewhere else in
that box and go hide and by the dip or something?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I get I guess. I guess he maybe doesn't have
a choice. I got it. I got to sit next
to them. I gotta give him gravitas. I got to
show him that a guy who's universally loved in the
game like me is sitting next to a guy that's
universally hated in the game like him. So we get yah,
Because I really do think you bring up a good point,
because stuff like that, absolutely I think is is UH
(02:08):
made for TV events. You see stuff in the stands
in big games, not just regular games, not just let
but in the World Series, Super Bowl, UH, college Football Playoff,
NBA player certain things are seen because they want to
be seen that way. Like I always go back to this,
like I remember when when Fox first got the World Series,
going all the way back to like the early two thousands, right,
(02:30):
and World Series started to become on Fox, and one
of Fox's big shows was Ali mcpeel and there was
in Callista Flockhart was the star, and there was always
this big thing that, oh, she's so skinny, she's too skinny,
She's this, she's that, And there was there was a
whole big right right before social media hit it. There
was something that was on the Internet every day. People
were blogging about it, she's too skinny, she's too skinny.
(02:52):
And so I'm saying, oh wow, what a coincidence that
they showed her at the World Series game eating a
hot dog? Right, they make you, Hey, let's show her
on TV and hot to people understand she eats Okay,
she eats food. I understand, understand. So ever since that moment,
I get yeah. Even now when it comes to cutaways,
I think networks or or or the sport, hey wants
(03:13):
things to be seen a certain way, Like you think
they cut away to the stands. They want to see
who Roger Goodell is talking to Sure in the stands
in the owner's box, much like, Hey, Joe Tory is
one of the biggest, most beloved people in baseball who
you can ask him or say, hey, why don't you
sit next to the commissioner because everybody hates the commissioner.
(03:34):
Everybody hates him around this time. We don't want that.
So hey, if Joe Tory is sitting next to her, Hey,
maybe Rob Manfred's not a bad guy because Joe Tory
is sitting next to him. How cool is that?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, the rest of the pairings are fun too, though, right,
I mean, and look, it's made for TV. Right, there
would have been an Ali McBeal promo after they showed
her eating the hot dog you got.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Chock got shot.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
The dancing baby dancing the dancing baby. Wow. Wow, Know
you had such a hatred for a TV meme that's
twenty years old. Yes, I hate the dancing ba It
just looked weird exactly. But but all of that, it's like,
all right, there's Bateman and Hayes, they do a podcast,
whatever else, Big Stars, everything else, yesterday, the fun one.
(04:19):
I want to go sit with these guys. Brad Pitton
flee Yeah, there must be some kind of kind of cool, right, Yeah,
the show Flee, Yeah yeah, I wonder, I wonder how
that conversation goes.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I don't know. This is kind of funny though.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And the only guy that wasn't wearing a Dodger jersey
that they, you know, brandished upon him as he as
he showed up was Leo DiCaprio two straight days.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Les No, no Dodger Man.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Leo.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
He doesn't, he doesn't do that. Leo doesn't do that.
He's not I remember running into him after a holiday.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
He's not a he's not a jersey where and he's like,
I'm Leo, I'm here, like the star. I have the
I have the the baseball hat and the jacket and
the the monochrome T shirt that matches that that that
goes with the pants. Like what what celebrities are wearing
every time they get photographed at LAX Like that's Leo.
Like I get addressed like that, and I kind of
(05:10):
like dressing like that, as you see, I kind of
like dressing. Yeah, I gotta like that.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
You got to speak it into existence, right, It's like
wanting greater things in your career now coming off of
this game, there's a there's a couple of things to
say and and and I know I can sum up
the World Series and where the Dodgers are to this point, but.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
First you're just going to scream, because I.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Think that would Dodger fan not happy, like the cal
Rally screen. Now, the first thing is this is that
when the World Series began, I said, this Dodgers team
reminds me a lot of the twenty fifteen Mets. Why
because the twenty fifteen Mets were built on starting pitching.
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And in the NLCS against the Cubs, they went through
a hot hitting Cubs team and it was easy. It
was wow. It was Harvey and cinder Guard and de
Gram and Matts and it was four games and the
Mets around of the World Series and what happened. I
was worried the same thing. Then, this is ten years ago,
same thing. Now, Mets starting pitching is gonna get a
bounce in the World Series and it doesn't need to
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be where they pitched terribly, but they're not gonna pitch
like that again. So they gotta make sure they hit.
And that's what's going on with the Dodgers right now.
We said going into the World Series they're gonna get
a bounce. They're not gonna pitch like this doesn't mean
the starting pitching is gonna fall off the face of
the earth. But they're gonna have to hit more because
they haven't hit the entire playoffs. But they gotta hit
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at some point, but knowing they're gonna have to make
up for it because they're gonna get a little bit
of a bounce. So what have we seen through the
first five games so far? Blake Snell not great in
game one, Yamamoto great in game two. Game three, Tyler
Glassnell okay enough but still allowed runs. Yes, he was
done in by an error, but still allowed the ball
to be hit over the fence. You have Game four,
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which was last night, which Showani was okay, but he
left with nobody on, nobody out, and two on and
wound up giving up four runs and seven innings. And
now you saw it tonight. Blake Snell wasn't terrible, but
gives up two home runs of the first two batters,
and all of a sudden, the Dodgers are playing from
a deficit. They don't recovery give he gives up another
run thanks to Taskar Hernandez's misadventures in the outfield, the
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bullpen gives up a couple of more and they wind
up losing six to one. We knew this was gonna happen,
and the Dodgers hitting, the Dodgers' lack of hitting is
what's absolutely killed You can you can talk about the
bullpen being bad. We do. The bullpen was bad, the
starting pick. But that's what's exacerbating this is that knowing
full well you're not gonna pitch like this again, and
they're not. They're just a they're just one tick below
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what they were in the NLCS. But that's been enough
so far for the Blue Jays to take control of
this series. Well that's what we watched it from all
all points.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Go back to the game yesterday, right when choeo Tani
came out for the for the last inning, was the
should they have gone to the bend?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
There? Right?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Clean gotten you pretty far into the game. Now, I
know you're short of arms after the marathon, but still
the question of all right, are you pushing the envelope?
Well you did, and it came back because once you
went to the pen, that was the end of it.
But all in the top of your orders, not hit
well at all. We've chronicled the misadventures of Mookie Bets
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at the plate, but just go on down the lineup.
There's nobody that's given you consistent at bats through this
series and for much of the playoffs. Right, this isn't
even this is a new it's new because now they're
on the edge, but it's been there the whole time,
right late, under the surface of all. Right, at some
point you need to string together some hits. At some
(08:44):
point you need to draw a walk, which they did
not do today. Right, You need to force the issues,
put the ball in play, to force the defense to
make a play.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
That was the thing about the game that went eighteen innings,
is you at least put the bat on the ball.
So there were some opportunities and the Blue Jays were
up to the task defensively, but starting pitching wise, I
don't know how much more you can ask. Yeah, Blake
Snell gave up the two quick home runs, solo home runs.
You're down to nothing.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Battle back, Yeah, yeah, you're right, it is. And listen
to Rick Monday on the way and saying, hey, it's
only it's only like a run. And I'm saying, what
is he saying, and he goes, well, and he says, hey,
the Dodgers down to it before they come up to bat.
But think about it like this. You know it's too
nothing and it sounds daunting before you can even come
to bat. But you know you're gonna have to score
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a run to win anyway, so really you're not going
to win, and lets you score a run. So really
it's like you're chasing one run and I'm going, okay,
I get that, but you're losing to nothing. No, I
understand the psychologist, you're losing two to nothing.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
But they get out of it.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
And we have those reviews because that looked like it
was going to get uglier. Yeah, right before and it
certainly stretched, which again maybe it's overrated because you're in
the the World Series.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
So pitch count.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
They reviewed everything in the first city.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
They can't.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
They reviewed Blake snell socks in the first inning. I
think these socks, so let's take a look and.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Say, well, they came out with the measuring tape and
everything came in, came off the utility belt.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
But here's the other here's the other thing where I
can encapsulate the the last few days in the World
Series to this point, and really Dodger playoffs till this point.
The Blue Jays have played and they have made stuff happen,
and that's been their strategy, and the Dodgers have been
sitting around waiting for something to happen. Now, you're not
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gonna change strategies. Offensively, the Dodgers are a team that
shows up, hits the ball and just we're gonna out
talent you and show he's gonna get a hit, and
Mookie's gonna get a hit, and then you're gonna get
a big hit from Freddy and Munsey and Will Smith
who was hitting three twenty for most of the season.
Like that's how the Dodgers do it. But they're clearly
in a rut. And when you're in a rut, you
need to jump start away. And they're just going it's
(10:56):
like they're they're they're just going through the motions every
act back there there's no life, there's no hey, let's
grind it out a little bit now, right, you're not
gonna change your complete attitude, but hey, maybe when you're
not going well, yeah, I get that. Over the peaks
and valleys of a season, you're not gonna hit for
a couple of games. But this is the bleeping World
Series and you don't get twelve games to hit. This
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is not best to thirty, right, you know, one more
and you're out. I expected to see better at bats
and the Dodgers, but still they've been a team that
the last couple of games has been sitting around. Go
back to the middle of Game three. They're sitting around
waiting for something to happen. Now you look at the
Blue Jays who went out and made stuff happen, right,
just look at tonight. For a reason, they came into
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this first first inning of this game going, we are
gonna jump on Blake Snell's fastball. We're gonna jump on it.
We are hunting it because he thinks he's gonna cut.
We know, Blake Snell's gonna come in and he's gonna three,
you know, try to establish his fastball early in the
count for a strike. Let's go hunt it because we
can do some damage with it. And what happens first
pitch of the game fastball Blake Snell tried to throw
(11:59):
the boom or hunts it home run. His dad in
the stands is going absolutely nuts with that, which we'll
have more. I'm not coming up in a bit, but
his dad going nuts recording. You can't believe he had
a home run. And then he got vlad Juni your
same thing two pitches later. I'm hunting that fastball. Really
awkward swing, but you know he's looking for it because
he was able to turn on it side of the
plate and went right after it. Yeah, he turns on it,
(12:21):
puts the left field stands and suddenly it's too nothing
like this is We're going out to make something happen
here in Game five, and they did, and the Dodgers
were on their heels the entire game, and outside of
Kei k Hernandez's home run, that was it.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Like that was it.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
The Dodgers really didn't threaten a lot the rest of
the way. They had a runner on first a couple
of times, but you know they got to race the
double play. Like this is a team, Like they're just
sitting around saying, hey, we've done We're used to this. Man,
we're the champs and we've gone through this the last
few years. Something's gonna happen, right, Like maybe maybybe the
next guy or or or the guy after that, Like
something's gonna happen to the blue Jay just saying no blank,
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this man, let's go out and take it. And they've
done it. They've gone out and taken this. And the
Dodgers have been too passive in how they've they've approached
these last two and a half games. And I don't
know if Dave Roberts thought, well, we're gonna change the
order a litt bit, that's gonna bark things up a bit.
I don't know about dropping Mookie Bets to third if
he's not hitting well second. I know that want and
hitting third that didn't work out tonight, you know, benching
(13:20):
pahz for call. Okay, you're talking about changing the ninth
batter in the order, like these are changes where they're, hey,
we we kind of want to see if maybe this
sill spark something, if maybe you know, where we're rubbing
the two sticks together and it's gonna the fire is
gonna come out eventually. Uh, it doesn't always work that way.
And and and I look at two completely different approaches
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Team batting average Toronto two sixty one, the Dodgers just
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what's that work?
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Blue Jays win the World Series Game five, Ladies,
they leaded three to two after a six to one
victory tonight. Nobody had gotten in their seats. He had
at Dodger Stadium when Hey, we had back to back
home runs to start the game. David Schneider leading off
(16:46):
for the Blue Jays homers on the first pitch to
left field. And this has been really fun, right. This
has been a big viral moment the past couple hours
because David Schneider's dad in the stands tonight taking video
of his sons at bat. Right, kind of cool, right, this.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Is pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And my son's batting, and of course David Schneider with
a home run leaving off the game. And this is
what it sounded like. This is this, this is It's
gonna be Schneider's dad who absolutely losing his mind over
his son getting hit. No, by the way, just really quick,
if you see David Schneider, he doesn't look like your
quinnessential leadoff man. It looks like he's from the seventies, right,
(17:29):
I mean, like you would say, this guy's a middle
infielder from the nineteen seventies, right like that that that's
this guy right here. This guy know, he's he's he's
somehow from the past and he was dropped into the
future to play a baseball game, which he grew up
watching Burt Reynolds films because everybody had a mustache, yeah,
mustache glasses like yeah, you know you you hit it
(17:50):
on that uraka. Yeah. Tim Foley was a good one, Yeah,
Tim Foley, Yeah, you know what, wearing.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
The pill box.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You know what if you put a picture Tim only
next David Schneider, you would say, is that his dad,
you would say, is that is maybe his dad is
Tim Foldy, but that really is that's a great like
I was saying, you know, like Kurk Bavaqua, you're right
with with that. Who was I thinking of earlier in
the show? Uh uh Johnny Parkins?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeahs straight out of Central Cast, all of the mustaches
and the and the and the glasses everything else.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
So he Homer's to lead off the game. That then
we got a home run from Vlad Junior, which you
know we we get all the time. But just think
about this for a second, right because you know you
and I both being sports parents and and and and
not not just about sports but everything else that you know,
we're we're in a generation right now where whenever one
of our kids does something, somebody's kid does something, you're there, Hey,
(18:47):
you want to make sure you're recording it, right. You
don't know when their name is going to get said,
if it's an award for school, if it's something on
the on the field, you want to make but you
want to make sure you're recording. Now, just think about
this for a second. What if I mean Schneider's dad,
what if he was like, oh oh, I got to
get the phone ready. My son's up, and you're thinking, yeah,
I got time, I got time, and you're you know,
(19:08):
you're pressing the button, you're you're hitting the camera. You're
gonna get the video, and you hear the crack of
the bat and the ball's gone. So not only would
you miss it because you don't get your phone up
in time, but you would miss seeing it because as
you're reaching for your phone, right out of my phone
ready to go.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Yeah, I know that that would That is the worst.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I mean, we've all had those moments where all of
a sudden the play changes softball, soccer, You soccer. For me,
it's like, all of a sudden, you're in transition and
it's like you're trying to keep your eyes up.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
You fumble the phone, and it's like, did.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Anybody get that? Anybody got did you get that? You know,
who's the worst of the big camera is supposed to
get that?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Right?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Do you think I got it?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
The worst at that? And I could say it because
he's sleeping, I'm all worst at that?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Is my dad?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Right?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
So we went we went to.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
A uh A couple of weeks ago, we went to
a an event, an acting event for Zoe that she
was in with her school. And so we're like, okay,
and it's a short thing and we're gonna we're you know,
we said, okay, we always figured it out like between
Pam and I, one of us will take pictures, one
of us will take video. Right, that's what we do. Okay, great,
we figured that out. Okay great. So now because Pam
(20:17):
was actually working this, like it was up to me
and my dad, I said, okay, I said, what do
you want to do? Dad? Pictures of video? And he says, oh,
I'll do the I'll do the video. I said, okay, great,
I'll do the pictures. Right. So okay, so I take
the pen and this thing is like, you know, there's
a but this one is like a minute long, Like okay, great.
So I'm taking the pictures and I'm trying to you know,
and the thing is is that I'm not just taking
a whole bunch in a row. I'm trying to find
(20:39):
a good way to frame it all. That's gonna be
a good picture. That's gonna be a good picture. So
I figure get artistic here. Yeah, Well, because I use
the portrait mode. Oh yeah, oh my god. The portrait
one makes you look like a real life photographer. Like
I love showing the portrait mode photos to people that
don't know about it on the phone and go, yeah,
that's just you know, it's the industry. Now, I gotta
I gotta adapter died. That's one of these I'll get
you good pictures right here. People don't know. Oh my god,
(21:01):
the portrait will make you look like a genius. So
I'm taking the pictures and I look over and my
dad is standing there and he's got the phone up
and he's I'm like, okay, Greg, he's got the video. Okay,
so finished, we finished, and I go and I turned,
I go how to go? And he goes, hey, oh crap,
And I said, don't don't crap me, Dad, don't don't
do crap.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Okrackers, I thought I was recording.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Oh no, Like.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Apparently he fat fingered the button and like thought he
pressed it, but he didn't. He pressed someone close to it.
So he's just so the whole time he was just
folding there holding the phone.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I'm like, don't you see doing a yoga posy? That boy?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Don't you see it's not recording, Dad, Don't you think dad,
just press the button, Dad, press the button. That's my dad,
did that?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
I can only someone else pick up for you? Say
someone else? I mean no, no, no?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Then pan, hey, then to the network of parents, does
anybody have the video of this? And he said, and
luckily somebody, Oh yeah, sure sureget said no, no, see.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
This is where you said we should all exchange videos.
We should all Why don't we do a group for me?
Oh did you forget.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
To send yours? Yeah? I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
So here's what it sounded like earlier tonight. The big
home run by David Schneider, his dad very excited to
be a proud dad. No, why, no, why God, Steve Schneider,
(22:37):
there it is. I think he was excited. He was
Rob Schneider, tiny.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Home run, home run, a loser home run home run up.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I gotta give him credit, right, this is live and
in living color. And he did a point where he
started to screaming and he was about to drop an
F bomb, and he paused and he caught himself and
kept it. I mean, look, and it was almost like
he was broadcasting to Canada, and the light nature of
Canadians meant that he couldn't curse.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
And the funny thing is is that, like we're in
an error where when something big is going on at
a sporting event, you get, hey, I want to get
video with this, and then you get half the people say,
just enjoy the game. There's gonna be video if you
want it after you're gonna get to see it everywhere.
And David Schneider tells it. Told his dad, don't film
my at beats. He said, don't film the All the
bats are all on TV from all kinds of different angles. Dad,
(23:28):
these are four cake cameras. You're gonna get everything. Schneider said, Yeah,
I don't always listen to him. I like getting everybody's
reaction after it. So I'm taking the video and and
this is a great thing for me to be out
there in the world because you just hear the dadness
in him of after the home run.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Now, I wonder if the front part of it is edited,
because he was saying, watch this, he's gonna jump all
over this fastball.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
He's waiting dead red.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
And he's gonna absolutely murder it as soon as it
comes off Snell's hand.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, my kid told me he's swinging fast basketball first
pitch because that's the standing report on Blake Snell. We're going, we're.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Going, you can struggle that fastball game one. So that's
why Davis got moved to the top of the order.
So he's ready to get pounced again. They were hunting fastballs.
Now the other thing from tonight, right, because the two
the two big things with the with with the Dodgers
we've talked about. We talked about the bounce of the
pitching staff and we said, you know, the Dodger defense
(24:27):
is not great and and really it's it's come down
to one player that the ball always seems to find
him in a bad spot, and that's Tioscar Hernandez. Nobody
keeps both teams in the game like Taioscar Hernandez. What
he does back thrill Dodgers and then what he does
in the field on the base pats for the other
team like he is. I mean, he may be responsible
(24:48):
for more runs than anybody in baseball. When you think
the fact that, well he's responsible runs for the Dodgers
and whoever the Dodgers play, do you.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Get credit for that run generation?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I think you should next time for his next contract. Hey,
I generated fourteen runs in the World Series. Yes, six
for us and eight for them, doesn't matter. We don't
we do fourteen runs. That math doesn't make sense to us.
How did you come to the summer? It's like, oh,
it's the other side. Yeah, fourteen runs, man, that's what
we did. Fourteen runs. Uh. But this is how big
we talk about defense is. And I said, you know,
(25:19):
the Dodger defense, it's it's not great, and it's gonna
again something become of the twenty fifteen Mets. You can
miss a couple of plays, but eventually it's gonna come
back to bite you. And Taoscar Hernandez misplaying var Show's
ball that turned into a triple instead of a runner.
At first, that run was absolutely deflating for the Dodgers
(25:42):
because they had cut it to two to one run
and to Oscar Hernandez, for some thinks he can make
that play and he can't because he's awful in the field.
But what are you gonna do? You gotta keep him
on the field because he hits, but he can't play.
But he can't he can't dh because Otani can't be
on the field. So what the hell are you gonna do? Man?
What are you gonna do. There's nothing you can do.
(26:03):
You have to try to hide him when you can,
but you can't. The ball seems to find him. But
that was such a deflat that's the biggest play. You know,
you talk about the two home runs, all right, there's
still a long, a long game to play, but that run,
you could tell that took all the air out of
the stadium. And it was now it's three to one.
You know, we get back that run with Kik. You know,
we're having trouble scoring runs. Maybe we can squeeze out
(26:25):
one more here or there. We get a couple of
runners on, but that run like two runs now with
the Blue Jays over the Dodgers in this series now
feels like seven, Like the Bleegers got to three four one.
I'm like that this is over. The Dodgers just aren't hitting,
so that that run and that play was so deflating,
especially when I get that things aren't going your way
(26:45):
and you want to try to make a hero play.
But the play right there is keep it in front
of you, don't make up, don't make a bad play worse.
And the bad play for the Dodgers was this is
gonna drop in for a single. Okay, that's one nothing
you can do. Don't make it worse by turning into
a triple. And that's exactly what That's exactly what happened.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Dives gets under his glove, goes to the wall and
off to third goes of our show. What was interesting, right,
that's the fourth So you just battle back. You got
that that huge run. And this goes to the overall philosophy.
It's seems that the Dodgers are always waiting for the
big fly as the bailout, as opposed to get them on,
get them over, get them in, and it's who they are,
(27:23):
and you push right. Your identity changes year to year.
A lot of folks saying, well, this is what the
twenty twenty four team would be. Yeah, I know they
didn't change a lot of the principal players, but they
played differently this year and with Taskar Ernandez. Look, you
can't have seven dhs. We were talking about this a
little bit before we came on air at all is
(27:44):
that the field?
Speaker 4 (27:47):
You got a lot of guys you'd like to hide.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
I got you know, you got Freddy Freeman who probably
helped boost by saving a bunch of balls in the dirt,
making Mookie Betts a goal glove finalist. Okay, cool, there's
two and then occasionally you steal from from bits and
pieces Will Smith behind the plate and all. But it's
just a difficult proposition. And for Teoscar Hernandez, he came
(28:09):
up at the in the home half of the fourth,
is like, hey, here's an opportunity to get about any
and he promptly ripped a single back up the middle.
It's like, okay, so now there's two runners on got
a little something and that was vanquished rather quickly. But
it is to that point, right, you have three wild pitches,
You've got guys in the field that it's they had
(28:31):
them several bobbles, right, we had that challenge in the
first inning. Like nothing went cleanly or smoothly for the
Dodgers at all in this game. And it's really just
been the hallmark of this series. But you know already
you're getting the big thought pieces of well, how do
you shake this up? Because they've been tied to every
free agent. That's just the fun for being a Dodger
(28:53):
fan and being around and certainly in Los Angeles, the
everybody's a future Dodger or future Laker, but now it's
future Dodger if they have a high, you know, ticket
price associated with them. But the first thing you gonna
do is go find someone that you trust defensively help
your pitching staff that much more. Maybe the relievers will
(29:13):
pitch a little free or in easier if they're not
worried about what's behind them. If it goes into play The.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Love from the Fox
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Speaker 4 (29:33):
Why thank you?
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Fellasan was trending Game five of the World Series Wednesday night.
Here's how the final out sounded on Toronto station CJCL.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
First now sets, he kicks to two, slang in a miss,
strike three, Hoffman punches out Hernandez. The Blue Jays intominate
fashion wins six to one in Game five, and they'll
come home with a three two lead in the World Series.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
The most dominant starting pitcher Trey Y Savage, who said
a World Series rookie record with twelve strikeouts in seven innings.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
For the win.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
He allowed one run on two hits with no walks. Offensively,
David Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Junior let off the game
with back to back home runs, first time that's ever
happened in seven hundred and five all time World Series games.
Multiple outlets support. The Minnesota Twins are hiring Derek Shelton
as their new manager. In the NBA, on Wednesday night,
(30:31):
Austin Reeves hit a twelve foot runner at the buzzer
to give the Los Angeles Lakers a one sixteen, one
fifteen victory at Minnesota. John Moran's nine foot runner with
seven points six to play gave Memphis a one fourteen,
one thirteen triumph at Phoenix, and Nikola Jokich had a
twenty one point, twelve rebound, ten assist triple double in
(30:52):
Denver's one twenty two to eighty eight win over the
New Orleans Pelicans, who are now oh to four guys
all yours.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Thank you, Eilo, you mentioned the biggest highlight of the night.
In the NBA, Austin Reeves twenty eight points, including the
game winner, for a game the Lakers had no business winning.
In Minnesota. They blow a lead late, Minnesota gets the
go ahead bucket with ten seconds left. They're jumping up
and down like they're going to the NBA Finals, and
(31:20):
then Austin Reeves twenty eight point night hits the runner
in the lane. Lakers win this last three games for
Austin Reeves, who, oh, by the way, is third in
the league in scoring his night tonight forty points against
the Blazers, fifty points against the Kings. He has become
a superstar in the league. And it happens really fast, right,
(31:43):
Guys become great players and they level up really quickly.
Austin Reeves has leveled up from the beginning of this season.
He's gone from hey, he's a nice number three player
that potentially could be great in a championship team, or
he could be somebody who you trade bring in a
better player who's gonna be Luca's number two eventually, because
(32:04):
you know they want to get rid of Lebron James
after this year. No, Luca is the one and Austin
Reeves is the two. He has become a star. He
has become the Scottie Pippen to Luca's Michael Jordan. He
is that good. He's always been good, but now he
is leveled up. He has nearly pulled off three games
for the Lakers in a row single handedly, and the
(32:25):
win tonight when nobody else has taken that shot at
the end, there's nobody else that's going to do any
kind of damage. Lakers have a bunch of guys right
now with no Luca and no Lebron. Yeah, Austin Reeves
has leveled up into the star category of the NBA,
and now the Lakers have to say, well, now we
have a backcourt that no one's gonna be able to
beat and Luca and Austin Reeves. Now, hey, Lebron when
(32:46):
you come back the number three option, hey good luck.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
No.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
But now it's easier to move on from Lebron. It's
easier to try to get supporting casts when you know, hey,
we're not looking for a number two or a one A,
we're looking for a three because we have our one
in our one air one in R two and it's
Luca and Austin Reeves. He's done that much just in
the last few.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Days, completely displacing Ruby Hachimura as that guy. But all
of a sudden, what's also interesting here. Laavia has himself
a big game. He's got to watch first round pick
this year, see what he does, because certainly last year's
first round pick doesn't see a lot of time war
shots as that goes. But when we look at this,
(33:25):
Reeves seems to have taken. Once upon a time, Lebron
James wore the headband with great regularity. No, no, no,
there's a new headband in town. It is the Austin
Reeves Show. Becoming a Folk Hero Now, Exit ab out
of Fresca, Exit Swelling Dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live
from the Fox Sports Radio Studios, The.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Birth of a new superstar in the NBA. Congratulations Austin
Reeves and Los Angeles clearly needed that tonight. Coming up next,
big hot take coming off a Game five of the
World Series, and we preview Thursday Night.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Football, the Return of Lamar.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
That's next, Jason to Mike, Fox Sports Radio.
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