Let's Play "Things The Indians Are Better Than"

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is getting short right now for the Cleveland Indians. Are
all this Chapman in to pitch the bottom of the
eighth thinning. The Indians trail the Yankees three to two.
Dee Dee Gregorious has two home runs tonight, part of
a three for fortnight. And before you get into the
weirdness and the craziness that was the Nationals and the
Cubs today, as soon as Gregorious hit his second home run,

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I put out on Twitter died Gregorius is the best
shortstop in Yankee history. You're not lying and then I
waited and I put out died. Gregorius has done more
in the postseason the any shortstop in Yankee history, and
then I waited and then I put out died. Glorius
has dated more hot women than any shortstop in Yankee history.
And the number of people that told me I was

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crazy and things I could go do to myself after
all of those, some of those things that you would
go do anyone, I mean they I don't know. I
don't know about that, not even on a day where
I've had a lot to drink what I think, but
I go, I don't think I would go do that.
It's amazing how many people think have you ever heard
of Jeetah? Are you crazy? You're a such and so forth?

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You're believe and he believe, Like, oh my god, did
you say I tuned out after the Judo starts screwing
with him? Really, I can't believe you do that to
the memory of Roy Smalley. I mean that was that.
It was incredibly nice to read that on Twitter and go.
I just love social media. I love it Yankee fans

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going crazy and then there's some people going that's the truth.
Gregorious is so good. He's this machine. The guys that
just in baseball a year and a half ago, should
I set something on fire around you? You can wash
him mouth out with self, even talking about Cheeta like that.
You took the name of Jeter in Vain. I tell
you what you know, You're gonna drop off your camera

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when you walk into D. D. Gregorius is betouse apartment.
He could. I mean, that's not a bad thing to learn.
Got to pick himself. It's half d D half minuotaur.
It's up over the fireplace. That would be good if
you couldn't take cameras and phones into offices sometimes, is
the former line coach could have found out? And I

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love John Stirling coming over the top with euphorious. I
don't think euphorious is a word. You don't know. I
think it's kind of fun to get that in and
and maybe it's definitely a work. It's definitely a word. No,
I don't think you far. I think it's good for
the kids. Though it's now on their thesaurus toilet paper,
the saurus for euphorious for Gregorious. It's definitely a word.

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Is it a word? It's a word that John Sterling
made up. Oh well then it's a word. It's a
word in the New York public school system. That is
absolutely a word. Yes, So Chapman gets out of the
eighth inning. We go to the ninth. The Yankees three
outs away from overcoming a to nothing deficit in the

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A L D S and overcoming Joe Girardi is horrendous
non replay challenge mistake. Well, that rallied them what they
rallied together? That galvanized them. Hey, I know we still
have its toy. Yeah, you can galvanizes good before. I mean,
are you euphorious about galvanizing? Galvanize is pretty good now.
It's always a strong word. It's like I putting myself
up from the bootstraps. I walked through the mud to

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work for seven cents a day, and I turned that
into this empire of pornography you've seen, or you know,
just start playing. I was gonna start playing a violin
in the background, and maybe I should have been slapping
the base. He was born very par in the middle
of America where there was nothing but wheat, and it
was wheat that had gone bad. And now he is

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the King of Chatsworth. So we'll keep you updated on
the Yankees and the Indians. What what what a gack
fest this would be? I mean, I know, but what
a choke this would be for the Indian to lose
three factory of sadness reopens, right? Wasn't shop tonight? He couldn't.
I mean, look, this is what we say starting pitching

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is a crap shoot in baseball playoffs. Was a question
I asked you John Pomerosi when he joined us yesterday.
Just emphatically, He's like, all right, we saw him struggle
the first time out. Are they going to get him again?
And he's like, statistically, I mean, come on, he's just
look at he hasn't lost too straight, all of these
different facts about clueber and dominance over the course of

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the season, and well they got him eight seven, seven
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ever and ever. Can I tell you how dopey people
can be on social media? Much like your Jeter. People
get mad at them jets Genius dated so many hot guns.
Yes Network, the blue checkmark. Yes Network just put out

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who is Tonight's my Bob's player of the game who?
They put up the poll question with an inning remaining,
So Yankee fans are losing their mind, stupid and things
I can't see you see license, Oh that's really something specially.
I'm gonna wait, I'm gonna hang out, I'm gonna quote tweet,

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and I'm gonna write this that right back, hang on.
Whoever hits the two run homer in the bottom of
the ninth off of Chapman put up real quicktion just
responded to, yes, all right, Well I'm gonna I'm gonna
start a pull of our own. Uh So anyway, the

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bottom of the ninth inning, still the top of the
ninth inning to go, although one out uh castor just
struck out? Ball got by catch your throat first gets him,
so Alan gets the first out of the ninth. Meanwhile,
so glad the Nationals stuck with their original plan and
started Tanner row Ark today. You know, I was very
against this. I thought you should start Strasburg, after all,

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he's great, but scratch it. Oh wait, oh o oh
changing hey rope a dope. Oh madden, he was the funneled,
you know, shocked. This is a semi underbelly story that

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I can't get enough of. The Nationals beat the Cubs
five nothing, Michael Taylor with a grand slam home run
to break it open in the eighth inning, a tense,
one nothing game in which Steven Strasburg, who did start
today despite the fact yesterday Dusty Baker said, Ah, he
couldn't get loose, he couldn't do his normal things. So

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we're gonna go with Tanner row Ark tomorrow. He pitched
a bullpen session and we find out USA Today's Bob
Nightingale said he didn't pitch a bullpen session yesterday, but
he pitched a bullpen session on Monday. It was clouded
in all kinds of thick fog. Well, that decision to
start row Ark was then made to start Steven Strasburg,
and Strasburg goes seven innings, three hits, twelve strikeouts. He

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was dominant. He is is exactly what you're hoping for
when you put a stud on the mount in the playoffs.
But the Seni underbelly of this game is much better
than everything else, because you know, you know, we said
this last night and now I'm doubling down on it.
You know, for sure, Mike Rizzo, the GM got involved
because Dusty Baker at the press conference yesterday didn't even

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seem like he was a guy that had all the
information as to why ro Ark was starting. He was
asked about it and he said, well, you know, he
did throw, but he couldn't get loose. So we we
have confidence in Tanner. And if this really was Dusty
Baker's decision, then he is selling it and saying, listen,
it's my belief. I did. I talked to Stephen I taught.
It was just it seemed like, you're gonna execute this
and good luck, President John Adams, good luck, You're gonna

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go good luck, And it seemed like either Dusty wanted
it to be that way or he just couldn't cover
for the fact that how do I explain We're not
gonna pitch Strassburg on regular rest, you know, for whatever reason.
But look, Mike Rizzo has been a guy who has
always been involved before. And look, they sat Strassburg in
the playoffs five years ago in the Nashal had a
chance to win the World Series, and he sat them

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and they didn't win. And for him to be quote
scratched the day before when he would pitch on normal
rest doesn't make sense. All of this doesn't make sense.
It doesn't. And even Strasburg when he was asked after
the game about what happened and you're rolling pitching today. Yeah,
he's trying to say, oh, you media are creating a
story when there's not one. Stephen, given all the drama

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of the past twenty four hours, at you feel you
had something to prove in this game, in this start tonight. Uh,
not to you guys. Know you know, you guys create
the drama. But you know, I know, like I said earlier,
you know I have faith and every other guy in
this in this clubhouse, and I know the coaching staff
feels the same. I should have been wearing a mask.
I can't talk anymore. I'm really sick. We really came

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to play today and Marco at a big good was
really really good. I'm gonna go ride in by bike
home because that's whenever I see people. The only one
that times I see people wearing masks are the ones
riding bikes in the wintertime. That's really it to be
bane a lot. And if you go to New York,

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you go to Chicago, you go to a place where
you got a lot of mass transit, you're gonna see
that there as well. But this is this doesn't make sense.
This was handled poorly. Strasburg can say, oh you Medior. No.
The media is saying, Okay, you're telling us you're not
going with Strasburg, You're going with Tanner row Ark in
a winner go Home game. Just be sure that's what
you're doing. Why when it's on short rest. It's not

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my fault. You completely bift this entire situation. But I
think it was you. There's factions in the Nationals organization
that wants certain things done and what aren't. Look, Rizzo
is a kind of GM and he's been this guy
for a long time who has been Dusty Baker comes
in saying, look, Dusty, you're great. You do your thing,
and I like you and you're different from Matt Williams
the player's life. But once in a while, I'm gonna
come in and tell you something that we're gonna do,

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and that's not gonna be a question. And I would
tell you, I would bet all my money that that's
what happened. That somehow he was overruled and Strasburg wasn't
gonna pitch, and then cooler heads prevailed or there was
a big eating that said, hey, we're gonna pitch Stephen today. Okay,
we'll pitch Stephen. And that's what happened. Now why I
can't tell you. But if you're telling me why that happened,
that somebody up above has We mentioned this with Morossi

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last night and John palm Roy said, I think there's
a lot of truth to that, and he went on
to say that there's a lot of things going on
behind closed doors, and the Nationals just you know, they
win and that's great, but boy, this story is just
gonna be so juicy when it comes out. But now
he's the hero. Now he's set up Strassburn. Look, he
he pitched, hurt, he injured, but think about it, lost,

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he lost a foot and still was able to pitch
the gout between all the issues that went on with
Dusty Baker. You know that that was a conversation behind
the scenes that was ongoing as like, hey, Dusty, it's
time for your availability, and so he didn't have the
note card with whatever hurtain and data went out there,
spoke off the cup, did a little bit of Dusty Baker. Yeah,

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ah shucks. He I've been in this game a long time.
Just deal with it kind of thing. Well, will beat
him as we need to. And then today they finished
it Strasburg. Whether he felt better, whether he felt worse yesterday,
any of that stuff, he was fine and able to
come up with seven dominant inning, twelve strikeouts. Maybe it's
a rope a dope and in confusion and misdirection in

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the entire you know, we're gonna make it look like
we're going one way, and so they will spend the
night doing video review of one guy and then here
he comes like Rick Vaughan coming out of the bullpen,
and we can do something great. So you look at
however you strike it. It's it's one that's going to
continue to grow. You have the next round. You you're

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you're still seeing whether you can get through to face
the Dodgers, but for one night, Dusty Baker pulls off
a little bit of misdirection and looks like a hero.
Twitter At how about a fresco The Jason Smith Show,
Jason Mike Harmon right now, top of the ninth The
Yankees have one on two outs, still clinging to a
three to lead. Yank He's trying to get that insurance

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run in desperately. We'll keep you updated on this. Meanwhile,
coming up next, we are getting to the tipping point
of the NFL flag controversy. After all the crazy news today,
we'll break it all down for you. Coming up next
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That Jason spith a lot from the Get Go Studios.
You know something we gotta get into later on in
the show. Uh, Chris Forrester's girlfriend or the woman who
put the video out of him snorting white powder and
he lost his job as a Dolphins coach. I wish
Keith Oldman still did his worst people in the World

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bit because she's the worst person in the world, the
absolute worst. She said she put the video out because
of the racial inequality, and a point had to be
made because he's a rich coach and other players are
getting in trouble for kneeling. So that's why she put
it out not because the coach was anyway racist or

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anything else. They had ups and downs in their relationship.
But she said, no, I put it out there because
the point had to be made. Oh my god, worst
person in the world. No, not your babe, not anymore
really in the world in the tonight, really in the
world from North Korea, any of that, in the world,

(14:28):
in the sports world. She's not in the sports world.
Yeah she is. She got an offensive line coach out
of his job. You know who's next, right, Who's next? Whoa?
Frostbrig just dropped the mic and walked away, like whoa
that was I thought we had breaking news right there
for a second. Worst. I mean, really, you might just

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behind it for now. You know. I heard her interview
today that she did with Dan Lebotard and and she said,
you know, I loved him in the beginning, but you
wanted me to move to Miami and he told me
he wasn't married, but he wasn't. Just typical high school stuff,
nothing racial, nothing anything. Just I want to be famous,
and I want to point out how are you how
is sending a video of a guy allegedly snorting cocaine

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drawing attention to raciel inequality. I don't understand. I don't
get that. It's a big leap. That's like saying two
plus two equals the Jets are in first place. Here's
the video, and now I'm gonna give you a bunch
of data from police and and other things about prosecution.
I don't know. You've got a bunch of graphs and charts. Yeah,

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we can remove the allegedly well, you know, I just
always you don't know you can. You can't get rid
of it, Okay, Twitter at how about a Fresco Jason
Mike Harmon. Yankees lead the Indians three to top of
the ninth to out the Yankees, threatening to on and
two out. The Yankees three outs away from moving on

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to the a LCS against the Houston Astros. Meanwhile, the
rubber is gonna hit the road in the NFL protests
very very soon. Many stories today about what we're leading
up to On Sunday. Gerald McCoy predicts an uproar if

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the players are told to stand for the national anthem,
which is the letter that Roger Goodell wrote to the
players yesterday everybody should stand. Jerry Jones has said everybody
stands or you don't play. The story breaks today that
Jerry Jones wanted to take that tack because he wanted
to take the heat for his players, which was kind
of stupid because all I did was not say anything.

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You inflamed it instead of trying I'm taking heat and
all you're doing is you're lighting, putting more fire and
war wood on the fire. So Jerry Jones, it was
led out today that I am I wanted to take
the heat off my players by saying, oh, you know,
anybody who doesn't stand for the national anthem won't a Also,
the players wanted to meet with him about his stance,

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and by all accounts, that didn't go very well. Glover
Quinn of the Lions Safety says that players will respond clearly,
the NFL p A will respond clearly if we are
told to stand for the national anthem. This is what
I said last night, and and look, this is a
very incendiary topic all day on Twitter today, all night

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last night. Let me look at it from the point
of view of the anti protesters, the owners, and the
White House. Okay, let's do it that way because everybody's
all Jason, you you stand up for the players rights
to protests, of course, because the right to protest isn't
just the right to protest what you think and agree
protesting is. That's not freedom. That's other countries where you

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can only protest certain things or not at all. So
I'll look at it from the perspective of the anti
protesters and the owners the White House kind of. But look,
President Trump and Mike Pencry are energizing their base with this.
They you know, they're doing things for political reasons. So
let's stick with the owners and the fan. If I'm
a fan that hates this, if I'm a fan that

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hates the players kneeling, if I'm an owner that hates
the players kneeling, I have no one to blame but
myself for this because this topic was done being a
front burner topic. It was done after Week one in
the NFL season. It was over. People were still gonna protest,
but it wasn't gonna get coverage. It wouldn't even be
shown on TV. Most likely, no one was gonna say, boy,

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look what happened here, and now this is overshadowing the game.
It was done being a front burner topic. But President
Trump decided I'm going to turn this into something because
I want to make this political the owners and the fans.
All you had to do was ignore it. If you
ignored it, and even the president ignored it, if that's
his thing he wants to get by where where NFL

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players don't kneel, ignore it because that was the best
thing that would have stopped all of this from how opening.
Because if you ignore it, it goes away and it
doesn't get coverage. But when you poke the bear and
say no, you know what, I'm gonna stir this up again,
what's gonna happen. It's it's like this if your girl.
If your daughter is dating somebody that you don't want

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them to date, whether it's high school, college, the boyfriend
you can't stand. He's a loser, you know, you don't like,
he doesn't treat her well, all these different things. The
worst thing you can do is say you need to
break up with him because looks drama. People love drap.
That will just drive her closer to him. Oh, people
say we shouldn't dat, and oh look at this drama.
It's awesome. If you want her to stop dating the boyfriend.

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You just blow it off and eventually she's gonna realize, Okay,
he's not for me, and I'm getting off this roller
coaster ride. I'm gonna go date somebody else. That's how
you do it. You don't sit there and start saying
don't do it, don't do it. Is that's just gonna
make people want to do it. What President Trump and
the owners have done. And now Roger Gondela is saying,
you can't do it, you can't do it, you can't
do it. It's now players are gonna go I can't

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do it. Don't tell me what I can and can't do.
I will do this. And this is where we're at
right now. So just think about that from the perspective
of people who are anti protest owners the NFL. If
you had let it alone, it would be done, but
you didn't. So now this is where we're at, and
it just keeps going around in a circle and moving
further away from the original intent. So I agree, if

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you hadn't had the the Donald Trump comments, we've already
seen the waning numbers of players, and it was a
small minority of players that were making their voices heard,
and it stayed essentially on topic, but you know what,
it became off of Donald Trump's comments. And even in
the media, we've all we've we've been guilty of it

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where it just has been tagged as anthem, protest or military.
However it's been reframed and as much as the politicians
have done it, the media has done it too. Which
what's that due that pokes the bear of the fan,
who's you know, where, wherever you live, just say that,
you know, God and country is the importance to you.

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That's what. It goes to your sensibilities and you can't
tell people how to feel. And and this is exacerbated.
We see them from McCoy, we see from Orlando Scandrick
going on all the day down the line. Now you're protesting,
but you're not protesting the original protests here now protesting

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numerous things, and the message gets muted, and all it
does is get everybody that much more aggravated. On every side.
Everybody's lost in terms of where this is headed. And
that's got to be the most frustrating thing on the
back end. As much as you see the solidarity of
players and the communication having the meeting and the report

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from Dallas of going to the coaches and them deflecting.
Now go talk to Mr Jones like, we're not getting
in the middle of this. So you've got locker room,
and I can't imagine that Dallas is the only one.
It's the highest example of it because of Jerry Jones comments.
But I got to imagine this is happening in NFL
locker rooms across the league. Of course it is, and
and it will only turn into a large protest if

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you continue to make it adversarial. They will. All I
said last night, I want them all to kneel because
now the NFL was decided. Now we're gonna go after you,
and there was no reason to go after the players.
There's no reason none, And so that's why I want
And now if they continue to do this, watch because
I guarantee you Glover Quinn's quote was really one that
kind of chilled me, saying we will respond. We will

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the NFL p A will have response. And when he
says that that's we're all in this now, because that's
the worst thing is that, and you talked about this
last night, is that the worst thing is that, well,
are really everybody in the NFL are they all gonna
get together? Are they all gonna get together? I mean,
come on, what are the odds of that? But would
you say the NFL p A will respond that is
all the reps have gotten together, All the reps are
gonna talk, and we're gonna figure out what we want

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to do. Whether it's all of us kneeling for the
national anthem, none of us coming out of the tunnel
for the national anthem. Whatever it is you tell us to,
you tell us to stand, we'll have a response for that.
So if this, if this doesn't get solved, this continues
this way, Sunday is gonna be a conflagration of protesting
fire across the United States. It's better than Euphorus or Twitter.

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to the A L D S. We'll have more on
the big night in baseball, but first let's get the
details from Tom Loni. Yes, so the New York Yankees
are this close to head into the American League Championship Series.
I know you can't see my fingers since it's radio.

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But there this Stewart die. Game five, a LDS series
between the Indians and Yankees, happening on Fox Sports Run
one in front of me on TV one. D D
Gregorious has made the Yankee fans Euphorius tonight twice, the
first time a four hundred foot bomb in the first inning,
then Dad Sport and one for the second time to
the top of the thirty. Yankees just drove up, drove

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in a couple of runs right in front of my face,
right now. Yankees in front of the Indians, five to two,
top of the ninth, winner of face to Houston Astros
for the American League Championship. Game one of that series
is Friday. Game four the Cubs Nationals best of five
n LDS was played earlier today. It's gone. It's gone,
it's gone. Goodbye. On a day when no one could

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hit it out. Michael Taylor is in a grand slam
here at the top of the apenning and it's now
the Nationals five and the Cubs. Nothing unbelievable five. Nothing
was your final trolley slows with the Colpeski Nats Radio
Network Game five tomorrow night in Washington. D c, the
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sports talk with Jason Smith and Michael Harmon on Fox
Sports Radio. Thank you, Mr Luney, appreciate it, and oh boy,
high drama. Brett Gardner's at at results in a two
run single to give the Yankees a five to lead
as the Yankees still continue to bat in the top
of the ninth any Gardner got a base hit to

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right field to bring in a run. J Bruce's throw
skipped away from Lindor and another run scored, so make
it five to Yankees as they still bat in the
top of the ninth inning. Joining us now on the hotline,
Prince means one person and one person only. Longtime baseball
insider friend of the show Seth Everett, Seth, what's happening? Hey,

(25:33):
what's going on? Guys? Buddy? We're watching baseball, buddy. So,
but I'll be in d C tomorrow. Are you covering? Uh,
you're covering game five nights. Are you bringing Dusty his toothpicks?
Well they've been mold. I'm not touching him. Oh alright, alright?
Was the really mold? Was it all just Vegas misdirection?

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Was it was it all a three card Monty play. No,
I do not think it was a play. I think
that what Dusty does is he goes out of his
way to protect his guys. I think Strasburg didn't feel well,
and I think that originally when he found out about
the rain out, he buckled and they weren't gonna put
pressure on him because that's what Dusty does. This is

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why Dusty is such a player's manager. He took a
bullet for him, because Strasburg should have just bucked up
and just said he was starting all along. But you know,
Dusty tried to deflect it, said, look, I don't care
if they think I'm a buffoon. I'm going to protect
my guy. Strasburg is empowered by that. And the next

(26:36):
morning Strasburg says, give me the ball, and look what
he did. He had poise, he had a fire. That's
Steven Strasburg. That's not the baby that had an in
englandmit five years ago. See, I'm thinking the opposite. I'm
thinking Rizzo got involved because that's the kind of GM
he's been. And because Dusty Baker's press conference yesterday made
no sense. He made no sense that if he actually

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had a plan and it was his idea. He would
have said things better. He was said, okay, Stephen, you're
you're not feeling okay. I'm going to protect you. But
it see, he seemed like a guy that only had
half the story. That's why I'm thinking it was it
was got involved in. That's an issue there. There's an
issue there because at that moment, Dusty is literally making
it up as he goes along. Of course, I mean

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he threw when when was that he did? He? What? Huh? No?
I look, you know, I said all along. That's I
said two things about this round. I said that there
were three series that had clear cut favorites. One of
them wasn't going to advance. And I said that the
best series was Cubs Nationals hands down. I've been writing
off both of them. Is pretty good pitched. Well, so

(27:52):
you know, well, the Indians. You know, the thing about
the Indians, if you think about the way they choked
in the World Series and the fact of the matter,
as is the way they have lost games in which
they have had the chance to eliminate their opponent, it
is uncanny and it goes all the way back to
so you know, this is not the get off, get
off my lawn. This is not get off my law,

(28:16):
and this yeah, we haven't won since, that's not what
this is about. And I remind you the way the
city of Cleveland reacts. On the day that Lebron James
and the Cavaliers had a parade through downtown Cleveland, the
Indians had a home game. One point six million people

(28:36):
went to that parade. Fifteen thousand went to the Indians
game that night. You can't walk in downtown Cleveland without
passing Progressive Field, and one point five nine million people
walked by the box office and said, Nah, the way
you said that was very Rippettino esque. On the day
that Ted Kenny, I can't believe you're here on my door.

(29:00):
It's an old bit. It's an old bit, it's my material. Obviously,
we're I was on after midnight. If I was on
after midnight, I bring him the A list stuff. You
can't tell us that you're not bringing us a listuff.
You've just taken down your performance. And basically that was
just that was just teasing prosperate. That's all all right.

(29:23):
I mean I want you to use your top adverbs
and adjectives. I mean, if not what are we doing? Well,
now you have a David Verse Goliath, assuming Chapman can
hold on. And I think that, you know, Cleveland versus
Houston was an Ali Frasier and this just became a
David vers Goliath. Can the Yankees do this again? I
doubt it. Well, Aara Judge isn't gonna hit the ball.

(29:47):
It's gonna be tough. Well, but it's very funny because
you know, my employers did say, and I love how
my employers think Washington is okay to drive to from
New Jersey, but but Boston's not. So I don't get
on the credential list for the Red Sox, but I
get the Yankees and the Nationals. I will be at

(30:08):
a lot of baseball games next week. Seth Everett with
us longtime Baseball inside of the Jason Smith Show. You
can follow them on Twitter at Seth Underscore Everett. That's
at Seth Underscore Everett. All Right, So, the other big
story today as we watch Chapman try to navigate the
ninth inning for the Yankees, John Farrell fired as Red
Sox manager. It was a story today to hear the

(30:28):
sources say even if they won the World Series, they
were going to get rid of them. You know, Seth
what when I hear the dwindling popularity of the Red
Sox and the upset fans on those calling shows that
that's why John Farrell got fired, I go, oh God,
I love Boston. I just love Boston. Well, I mean Boston.
They're they're getting rid of sports radio stations, they're selling them,

(30:50):
they're divesting them. I still don't understand what divesting means.
There's so many things going on in Boston. And the
fact of the matter is is this is what a
Red Sox fan says. This is why Red Sox fans
are still the same. It's the same group since two
thousand four. When a Red Sox fan says, well, they're
gonna fire John Farrell and I'm my responses, well, he

(31:11):
did win two division titles and a World Series, by
the way, and their responses, you don't watch you all
the games? Who's the right? I covered twenty nine other teams,
and your team plays slow baseball? Sorry, and your clubhouses
are small and they don't hit home runs. And I
don't get creditial for Red Sox games. Just everything south

(31:35):
of Philadelphia. I can't get a sausage of pepper sandwich
outside of Fenway anymore. Come on, I go to the
Catskin Flagon. What else do you ask for me? If
you're a wanted man in sounding right now, you can
never even travel in the state of Massachusetts again that said, Okay,
I go to Maine every summer now to visit my
daughter in camp. And I've been on a Portland's Portland's

(31:57):
main radio station. And when I told the guys that
I went to a restaurant, uh, you know, near near
in Portland, Maine, on my way to visit the camp,
the guys, I swear to you, the guy could not
believe me. You've never been to Portland, Maine. I'm sure
I have a lot of selfie's coming up from South Average.
All right, who's getting that job? Seth? I think Brad

(32:20):
Osmins and and you know Dombrowski loves Brad Ausmin's first
of all, they you know, they had the ties. He
hired him when he was in Detroit. But this is
what Brad Osmins does. And it's this new wave of manager.
This is Craig Counsel. Uh, this is a J. Hinch,
this is it's it's it's manager by committee. We no

(32:40):
longer see the Buck show Walters and the Tony Larus's
and the Jim Leland. Now you hire somebody who is
going to be just a mouthpieces really for the front office.
And there are so many minds, you know, invested in
the Red Sox organization that my gut instinct is gonna
bring in Brad Ausmus because what Brad Osmics will do

(33:04):
is everything Dave Dombrowski wants. And John Farrell was his
own man. And I think that's the interesting thing. Now.
The factor it is is if the Red Sox are
as my sources are telling me, really into Brad Osmus,
what does that mean for Joe Girardi Because you know
the Yankees, even when you know Joe Tory was never fired,

(33:26):
just so we all remember, he was offered a lesser contract,
so he would walk. Joe Girardi in his ten years
has had a three year deal, a three year deal,
and a four year deal. I do not see the
Red Yankees offering Joe Girardi a four year deal. Thus
does he walk? Would he go to you know Rumple

(33:47):
steel Skin over there and manage the met I'll trade
to Terry Collins for Joe Girardi absolutely in a bag
of donuts, said you do that in a heartbeat. The
only thing about that is is Terry On swears his
heart on his sleeve and Joe Girardi wouldn't let you
see his sleeve. Wow, look at that. That is insight.
Take on Twitter at SETH Underscore, everytt at Seth Underscore,

(34:11):
everyt longtime Baseball Inside are gonna be with us throughout
the playoffs. Seth is always buddy, appreciate it. We'll talk
to you soon. Hey, if something happens Game five drawing
Mike Rizzle gets mad at me, you gotta call us
back and let us know. Eight seven, seven ninety nine
On Fox Twitter at how about a fresco the Jason
Smith showed Jason Mike Harmon live from the Geico studios

(34:32):
right now, one on one out or all this Chapman
trying to hold on to a five to lead. When
we speak next, will we be talking about a Yankee
implosion or the Yankees in the a LCS keep it
right here or loaded up and ready? Fox Sports Radio

(34:55):
Dia Terry frank ConA. So you had the two nothing
lead and you'd choked it away that stinks. Man, I'm
sorry about that. I know you won World season with
the Red Sox, but man, you just keep losing in Cleveland.
Watch de Sean Kaiser get benched, even loss of the Jets.
The Jets. Now, Lebron says he's got everybody out of

(35:18):
shape getting ready for an NBA season. It's gonna end
with a loss the finals or maybe to the Celtics.
Sorry about all this, got nothing good to say. Hit
me back, Mr Stans. That last pitch was high too
great news. Great news is a quick way you can

(35:39):
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and in fifteen minutes you could say fifteen percent or
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back from down to zip to win the A L
d S against the Indians. Five two is the final
and befitting the night that was in this game, the

(36:03):
last pitch that went for a called strike three was
about two ft too high. It's too high. I believe
it was a strike. I thought he was coming out
to visit the mound. Chapman couldn't believe everybody's looking confused.
I thought it was another mound visit. Jackson stroke Austin
Jackson strikes out looking on a fastball that literally is

(36:26):
at his shoulders and it was a called strike three.
The Yankees couldn't believe it. They're running out. That's a strike, right,
it's a strike. It took about five seconds and then
oh yeah, we can celebrate. We can celebrate. Thirty one
strikeouts in the game tonight, and Jeff Nelson really and
thirty of them were from Aaron Judge. Yeah, no, he

(36:46):
certainly contributed his fair share in this series. Yet they
succeed Judge and jury and nothing succeed and proceed. The
Indian sires struck out sixten and the Yankees picture struck
out fifteen. This was one of those games where it
was like a little league game at sweltering hot like

(37:09):
noon on a Saturday, where the umpire says to the coaches, listen,
I'm boiling in this. Anything close is gonna be a strike.
Just warn your hitters, okay, alright, great, because that's why
I felt every first pitch, no matter where it was,
was over the plate. Pitches that caught the corner of
the plate, that we're breaking pitches that no way they
came over the plate where strikes everything was a strike tonight. Everything, Hey,

(37:33):
we'll get it. We need action. No, I can I
can't say. You can't say this is why the Yankees
one of the Indians lost because it was the same
for both sides. But wow, I mean everything was a strike.
I don't know. I don't know how you go up
there as a hitter with any kind of confidence to
go all right unless you can do that. If it's close,
I'm just gonna swing. I gotta do it. If it's close,
I'm of the swing. Let's go through the split. Sabathisches

(37:54):
fifty one of them for strikes, Robertson eighteen, Chapman three
club sixties seven forty, Miller thirty nine nine Shaw. You
get the point. Going through the rest of the pictures.
The Yankees through a hundred and two pitches ninety four
for strikes, Indians hundred seventy seven pitches hundred sixteen for strikes.

(38:17):
I can't it wasn't one nothing. I guess we actually
got seven runs in this game. They wanted to encourage action. Hey,
I'm taking that first strike away. Swing the bat. It's
like in in some softball leagues, you start with a
one in one game when you keep it going this game,
get him on, get him over, get him in, let's go.
We got a game. Every how, We're gonna started five,
at six, at seven and eight, We're gonna start with

(38:38):
a one in one count. Then okay, we'll try to
move on from their full field and light curfew. That
was I mean, watching tonight, it was just incredible. I
felt like this this was a night that uh you
know that Rob Manfred called and said, a piece of play.
Let's let's pick it up a little bit. Everything's a strike.
If it's close, you're calling it. It's Enrico Palazzo. It's
a guy that's like the national anthem the Yankees move on.

(39:01):
And look, this is a stunning reversal of fortune. Another
this is a nothing but a huge choke by the
Indians who had all the momentum coming back after that
horrible lack of challenge and and and taking at the
out hook in game two, and the Indians were up
to zip and that was it. It was over, and

(39:24):
Joe Girardi was fired and and look he's still may
but he's in the ALCS now and everything everything was
going the Indians way, and the Indians couldn't finish the
Yankees off, and then you left it to cloober tonight
who was not sharp in despite the fact that he
was owing strikes, he wasn't sharp. And now the Yankees
are moving on to the ALCS. S three is called

(39:48):
Bowl Game Over American League Division Series over Yankees. When
a fabulous comeback down O two, they go home, do
the Yankees and win two games, come here to Cleveland
against Klueber and win the ball game three too. And

(40:09):
now they're vanging each other. You know, the Indians got ejected,
got ejected, Just got ejected, and got ejected, just got ejected.
It's the final Just got ejected, just got ejected us
the veritable hoot Nanny. I can just do that for

(40:32):
three hours. I can get a guy picking a banjo
behind you. You might have ourselves the number one hits
you said, hooting, nanny, I did eight seven, seven ninety
not on Fox Twitter at how about a fresco the
Jason Smith Show. The Yankees beat the Indians five to
their first ALCS. It's two thousand and twelve. Will break
it all down coming up next, my dad. Maybe it's

(40:54):
a little bit of Asquall tonight. Yeah, got you box,
DoD swings and lines want a deep right. That ball
is high, that is far, that is gone. Oh my
d D. Homer's into the right field. Cses sin d
D d D. Gregorious makes Yankee fans you furious, Hey,

(41:17):
homers are right, and the Yankees draw first blood. They
take a one nothing lead, swing on and hit in
the heart the right field. That ball is high, that
is far, that is gone. He's done it again? Yes,
sin d D How doy like that? In the deciding
game five d D's at two home runs in a row.

(41:38):
D D. Gregorius makes Yankee fans ne farious. He it's
a two run home run. And here in the third inning,
the Yankees take a three nothing lead. Now they're banging
each other. Now they are there. They showed him. Wait
a minute, wait you cut Susan Walton off that first
home run, play that first time run again, d D
swings and lines want a deep right. That ball is high,

(42:01):
that is far, that has gone. Oh my d D.
Homer's into the right field. C G S s and
d D d D. Gregorious makes Yankee fans you furious, Hey,
homers are right, and the Yankees draw first blood. They
take out one nothing league, Daniel Susan Walmon off right there.

(42:27):
Oh well, Jason, it's a good thing she's on the
hot line. Oh, we do have a mystery guess on
the hot way. Now, if I could guess, if I
can guess who's on the hot line, is it's one
of three people on the hot line, it's one of
three people. The Yankees winning. They're spraying champagne in Cleveland

(42:49):
right now, they're going to the a LCS. It's either
Susan Waldman, who probably is doing post games, Alex has
special Pauls. Yeah, probably doing post he's doing he is
doing that's yeah. Or it's my dad, you think, or

(43:11):
or it's the guy who's been waiting to come on
with his finger on the button going, come on, get
that final lot so I can call get the final
lots so I can call mystery caller. Please sign in goodness?
Are going to How did I know it was Michael
Fabian Smith? How about those Yankees coming back from O two?

(43:35):
They were dead to everyone, they were dead to They
won four actually four games in this series. I mean,
let's be honest with you. Georgiardi should have challenged that
hit by pitch, but you know it now all's forgiven.
How many times did you curs have moved on to
Houston and the Red Sox are going home. It's a
good week for me. NFL Network Fantasy insider and analyst

(43:59):
extraordinary Michael Fabiano and biggest Yankee fan in the world,
even my dad are the two biggest Yankee fans, I
will I will contradict you with this, Fabs. None of
that matter because the Jets are in first place. You
know that. That's like one of the biggest jokes right
now is that the Jets coming into the season, We're

(44:19):
supposed to suck for Sam and now they're in first
place in the Giants look like they might be the
team that gets Sam. Don't. But we're not talking about
football here. It's no let's keep it a game. This
is all about the Bronx Bombers. Throughout that whole game,

(44:42):
literally I was texting with like seven different people and
it was just so stressful, and you couldn't get them
to just come hang out. My You couldn't get people together,
no people from everywhere. You know. I would say that
to be very stressed out when your team is actually
in the playoffs, But you really don't know how that

(45:02):
feels because you're Mets and Jets fans. But anyway, we
went to the two years ago last time. Moving on
and oh, by the way, I had a little wager
with the Miss My Power from w W who was
a huge Cleveland guy, and we made a wager last
week if the Indians beat the Yankees and I had
to wear a Browns jersey on the air tomorrow, and
if the Yankees won, He's got to wear a Cowboys

(45:24):
jersey on the air. So make sure you tune in
the NFL network tomorrow five pm Eastern to watch miss
wearing a Cowboys jersey because his team show Can You
Play Defense? Because the Cowboys might be able to use it. No,
I just saw my No, listen, we're not talking football.
The Cowboys are in trouble. I understand that you did. Network.

(45:48):
Mike the m just tweeted out he doesn't know who
you are, ye believe me. Believe me, he knows because
the text that he just sent me, he knows who
I am. I can promise you the PA. So he's
gonna wear a Browns jersey. That's why you were going
to wear a Browns jersey. I'd like to see that. Yeah,
you know what, I uh, I mean, there are worst
jerseys to wear, like, you know, maybe the Jets or

(46:11):
the Giants first place, but first place. I will I
will certainly, I will certainly enjoy watching my buddy have
to put on the Cowboys jersey because his Indians lost
to my beloved New York Yankees. It will be a
fun day tomorrow, I promise you, and I kind of
deserve it because the Cowboys blew that game on Sunday,

(46:31):
and its actually beat me in our fantasy matchup for
the first time in three years. He beat me. So
we're talking basically, nobody, nobody cares. Nobody cares about your fantasy.
This is just the beginning to This is just the beginning,
like this Yankee team. And you know, I'm not just
saying this because I'm a Yankees fan. This Yankee team,

(46:52):
I mean, you're looking at potentially a dynasty here, because
remember dynasty here. Hec's off the Blokes. Next year, You're
gonna have a lot of money for the Yankee to spend.
I've got all these all these kids, I mean, some
of these guys aren't aren't even up yet, like Leabra Torres, boy,
I'll tell you something. The Yankees are going to continue
to own New York City for the next decade. And

(47:13):
unfortunately you didn't follow in the footsteps of your your father, Walt,
who's clearly more intelligent than you, or you could be
enjoying this whole ride with us. Jason, listen, let's just
realize the Yankees win one series and now they're a dynasty.
Now we're gonna win the next five in a row.
That's how we are dead dead over the next several years,
this could end up being a dynasty. I don't know

(47:34):
if we're gonna win this year, but I know who's
not gonna win it, The Red Sox. Are you gonna
Are you gonna go to Houston and teach Aaron Judge
to hit like your George Costanza? No, no, it's certainly not,
although that's still one of like the greatest, like you know,
memes of all time, not gifts that that one is
is great And actually I'll probably be texting you that
several times over the next four block Block Fabian blocks

(48:02):
in the series fast Well, and we still wanted to
so imagine if he gets hot, I mean imagine if
he gets hot what's going to happen. And this is
actually a great series because you know, Brian McCann played
for the Yanks. Now he's with Houston, and the Astros
have its tremendous team. You know, Berlanders there, Now that
team is one to be reckoned with. They were the
best team in baseball for most of the first half

(48:23):
of the season. So you know, we'll see. Here's the
way I look at it. The Yankees weren't even expected
to make the playoffs. Okay, we were expected to be
a year or two away, and now we're in. We're
in the Alcs and Smith. Anything can happen, my friend,
anything could happen. And I and I want to and
I want to let you know that the Jets are
in first place and the Cowboys aren't. Yeah, well, you

(48:48):
know what you and enjoy You enjoyed that place. Uh
you know while it lasts, because I got a feeling
on the Patriots are going to knock you out at
that first place spot. Uh. This weekend coming up, my friends,
we're gonna winty seven. I don't know what you're talking, right,
We're gonna talk to and get the odds on that. Listen,
you know, I know I talk about fantasy, but I

(49:08):
mean that that's not going to happen in even a
fantasy world. Now we're talking to baseball. We're talking to baseball, Baseball,
we're talking about baseball. We are talking about baseball. We're
talking about the Yankee and you know it would be great. Smith.
And so if the Yankees actually get vanced and say
the Dodgers get to the World Series, come on, you
do that. We gotta go to a game. We gotta
go to a game. That's what i'man I've said that.

(49:30):
I said that from the from the middle of July.
I want the Yankees and the Dodgers. I got a
really good Dodger blue fedora that will look great. Listen,
it doesn't matter what you guys put on. I'm gonna
be wearing my pinch stripes and I'm gonna be in heaven.
But we've got to get there. But it wouldn't be
nice to see the anc and the Dodgers back in
the World Series again. That would be that would be
That would be it. That would be the biggest World

(49:51):
Series ever. It would be. It's the two most high
profile story teams of the rivalry. They have the two
of the best young players in baseball. It would would
be that would be it. I mean start time, though,
and I'll be mad. I had to keep that right,
keep gotta keep it regular. Well, Fabs, congratulations on at
least one of your teams playing. Well, I'm sorry the
Cowboys think yeah, but you are going to the Alcs

(50:15):
and I tonight. So no, it's it's all good, buddy,
It's all good. So so, hey, my dad's gonna call
you in a few minutes. Is that okay? Absolutely? Kidney
Waller is always welcome to call me in. Hey, we
still gotta do lunch. You know, I'm still waiting unch.
So we Last week I was driving the lunch you
called and said, oh, hey, I gotta pretape. Now I

(50:36):
can't do it driving the lunch you called me. So
you can't make lunch. I will buy you lunch to
celebrate the Yankees. Moving on, how about that tape that
he's never bought lunch for anybody in his life? Not?
Are you kidding me? Okay? The first day I met Fabiano,
first day I met Fabiano, glory days. Come on, first
day I met him. We're getting ready to you know,

(50:56):
we do our show and we finished, and he says,
and just a first day I met him. First day
I met him, he says, Hey, you're gonna go to lunch. O, yeah,
let's go to lunch. Goes Yeah, come on, you can
buy me lunch. You're the new guy. First day I
met the guy, you can buy me lunch is when
he tells me, Hey, and you know what, Look what happened, man,
a tremendous friendship, right so, and I bought you lunch. Listen,
you know when you take your wallet out, it's got

(51:17):
top weeds on it because you never use it, especially
when I'm at lunch with you. You have the first
dollar you ever made an NFL network. You open your
wallet and George Washington is squinting at the light, going, oh, yeah,
I can't see this. No, No, he's screened at the
light because he's like, oh, we must be having lunch
with mythic end because I gotta pay well FABS, go

(51:38):
watch the interview and Aaron Judge right now. In FS one,
he's just struck out. In the celebration, he's wearing virtual
reality goggles. Yeah you know what, you guys can't bring
me down as many times as he struck out the Gangster.
Moving on, congrats, buddy, I'll talk to me. We'll do
lunch Friday. Succeed and proceed. Jets are in first place.
There we go. Okay, so you got the last the
last burden. I got the last word. He had no

(51:58):
football tonight. He talking about football now, by the way,
there there is the bit of controversy going on of
the drop third strike on the final out as Austin
Jackson turned around. Right, that's it. He's soft. He's just
salty looking at the umpire go you called that a strike,
but the ball gets dropped, run doesn't get tagged. You

(52:19):
know you know who, James continuing, you know who wouldn't
have called that? Doug gettings Oh, call back, call back,
eight seven seven nine on Fox Twitter at how about
a fresco The Jason Smith Show, Jason, Mike Harmon and
a big call there from Michael Fabiata, who I knew
were gonna hear from after the Yankees won. But coming

(52:40):
up next more on the Yankees, moving on to the
a LCS and the craziest thing that happened tonight with
the Yankees on social media bar none Fox, Hey, Hey,
you see the Indias lost to the Yankees. No, I
don't want you to spend me. The Indians lost to

(53:02):
the Yankees. No, no, no, the Twins have the Homer Hankey.
The Indians lost to the Yankees. No, I don't want
a bagel and cream cheese. The Indians lost to the Yankees.
Never mind. Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show, Jason

(53:27):
Mike Harmon live from the Geico Studios. Great news, great news.
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So the Yankees beat the Indians five to they move
on to the A LCS and we have a lot
of stuff to continue to get to number one. No,

(53:47):
ask Walt tonight? What? No ask Walton? My dad? Ye? No,
ask Walt tonight. I just got a text from him.
The two biggest Shanky fans I know are Fabiana, who
called in him my dad. And since my dad called
in last week and became a cult hero, we had
him on to ask Walt last week and oh, this

(54:08):
better be good, this better be a good reason my
dad what is he doing? No, it's quite possible he
is drunk. No, it's quite possible. I got this text
from my dad Yankees take series from Dodgers John Farrell
to Detroit, Syracuse upsets Clemson garon t. So I wrote
back to him, Dad, congratulations, are you calling in tonight?

(54:29):
And he writes back, Nope, gonna start my own show.
There you go. It's called the Ask Walt Show. I
give it a minute or two now and again. You know,
the thing about my dad is this is that when
he knows he's coming on, for a few minutes, he's
he's sharp and he's up. But the minute he had
to talk, like for more than five minutes, he would start.

(54:50):
My dad tells stories. Now, I tell good stories, and
I learned how to tell him and shape him because
I gotta tell him on the radios. I gotta te
him a certain amount of time. But my dad tells
stories like so and your mother and I went down
to how was it downtown or was it out at
the fair ground? Downtown was the year before the fair
grounds anyway, So we go out there and I'd forgotten

(55:14):
to buy a pack of cigarettes. So I go to
the store. Was it a store or a gas station?
The gat Oh, yeah, the gas station. The guy was
wearing a hat that said goat ropers need love too,
And I asked him what it was and he didn't,
YE know, he said, well, that's just the hat I wear.
So I buy the cigarettes and were we driving the dots?

(55:35):
And did we have the dots? And that's my dad's stories.
So after like five minutest details being paid by the word,
it was the best of times? It was? Was it
really the best of times? That was? That was? I
don't know. I think that depends on which side of
the equation. So now my dad's starting his own show,

(55:55):
No ask Walt. My dad is starting his own show.
How do we profit off? I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know how he's gonna do it. You know,
I'm gonna have to do. I'll have to set him
up like this and go Dad, I'll set you up
with your own show. And I'll have to do is
just take a cup, put a string at the end
of it, take it to the wall and say, yeah,
you're on the air, Dad, gohead whatever you want to say.
We could we could create a marketing venue for ask. Well.

(56:21):
He does realize if he doesn't come on tonight, he
can't ever come on again. Right, Oh, you want to
you wanna he's imposing a lifetime band. Do stop. I
gotta deal with my dad every like every day. What
are you trying to do to me? Well, you did,
you teased to ask wall I thought he was brought
it on the show. They win a series and he
can't even come op U must I see him in

(56:45):
the clubhouse with some goggles on. I don't know, No,
I know, I think he's drunk. I understand he watched
his buddies die face down in the muck, But come on,
I think he's he's he's out, he's I think he's
out partying with everybody with a bunch of people, don't.
They were onto his text, like what's going on here?

(57:07):
Uh no, my dad is like not interested in in
anything but baseball and golf and n C. I s
that's my dad. That's everything that he gave up on once.
Emily Procter last Yeah, I do remember that was upset
they didn't my dad. My dad's big winners women, he's

(57:30):
like the most Emily Procter and Katherine Bell those are
his Those have been his two favorites in the last
one a year. There you go, We're learning a lot
about Walt. Uh So, no ask Walt tonight, but in
five minutes we will have things. The Indians are better
than we've gone from things Jared Golf is better than now.
It's things the Indians are better than after they lose
the a l DS. After blowing craziest thing on social

(57:54):
media tonight, which I still cannot get over. I really
I can't. I can't get over this. After did Gregorius
hit his second home run? I go on Twitter and
I put out died Gregorius is the greatest shortstop in
Yankee history. Discuss and people respond to me, are you
on drugs? Are you stupid? Smith? Did you forget about

(58:17):
number two? That's what about the Captain? I'm like, you've
got to be That's almost like a topic out of
old school for Will Farrell and James Carville a debate.
I I feel like I feel like I I feel
bad because like they're insulting my intelligence, Like they think
that I'm actually serious about that. No, that's hot take,
that's hot take, nonsense. I I they think I'm serious though,

(58:39):
you forget about Gina, you forget about the captain? So
then I tweeted out, Okay, I don't want to tell her,
what about Bucky Blank and Dent? Bucky Dent the rizzutto
while you're making Yankee fans my dad may call in
now if you mentioned Bucky Dent to Kubeck. But then
I tweet out died Gregorius has done more in the
postseason in any Yankee short stop, thinking Okay, that's gonna

(59:02):
do it, and people realize it, Nope, are you kid?
Do you forget? Are you forgetting what Gene has done?
And then there are a bunch of people going, absolutely,
he's been so clutch. Yeah, that's from the first game
to play in game to now he's been great. So
now I get people actually thinking, yes, I'm serious about it,
and they're agreeing with me. So I said, okay, now

(59:24):
I gotta really go over the top and finish this.
So I tweet out ded Gregorious has dated more hot
women than any shortstop in Yankee history. And I'm not lying.
I just went through my timeline of people are saying
to me, wait, who is he dated? He's what? Has
he dated hotter women than Jeter? Like I haven't like, like,
that's not the joke? Well, it is possible. Should I
just make things up? A lot of people do deed.

(59:47):
Gregorious used to date Harmon's wife in college. Interesting take.
You can't understand how people really like, like who's D
Gary's dated? Oh, D D. Gregory's dating Hillary Clinton. No,
but but you have no idea. For all you know,

(01:00:09):
they may not be famous. So if we don't go
famous people, if you just say hotter women the way
you're taking that hot Janette from the ball last week
and like that's what I'm gonna know, that Susan Waldman
And now they're vanging each other twitter it out about
a fresco the Jason's Spread Show, Jason My Carbon Live

(01:00:30):
from the Getic Studios. Now the Indians losing. Maybe the
Cavaliers winning the title two years ago put a put
a thirty year curse on the city of c They're
not gonna win again, Like you sat, like, we'll give
you this title. You know, Lebron will cut his arm
and the blood will pour into the big vat and
it will congeal and you'll beat the Warriors coming back

(01:00:52):
from three one. But none of your other teams are
gonna win for thirty years. Devil's Trade. I think they'll
take it. The Indians go home after a two nothing
leading manager Terry Frankcona just at the microphone for his
postgame press conference post series press conference a couple of
minutes ago. Let's hear from him right now, Tito, what
was your message to your guys after this this one?

(01:01:13):
Oh man, you know, whatever you say isn't gonna make
anybody feel better tonight. But you know, we we win
together and we lost together. Um, it was It was
an honor to go through this year with these guys,
and there's times that hurt like tonight, but it's it's

(01:01:34):
quite a group and I feel like a better person
for going through the year with these guys. Questions for two.
If this is what he asked, I apologize, But this
could have potentially been carlos is last game as a
member of the Indians. If he does indeed move on,
what would you miss the most about him? Oh boy,

(01:01:55):
I don't know if I'm ready to even think about
guys moving on. I mean, we're we're eight minutes from
digesting a loss, um and I love the kid. I
hope he's not moving on, but it's way too the
game is still a little too raw to go into
that yet. Cluber gave up the two home runs. Would
you make of his stuff tonight? Though, you know, started out,

(01:02:15):
I thought first inning was came out to shoot good.
You know, he didn't locate the first home run two
d D. He yanked it all the way across the plate.
But then he gathered himself and went back out and
look good. I just thought quickly his stuff was starting
to trend down. Um, you know, even the last thing

(01:02:37):
he got to strike out on a hang and break
the ball. Um, it just wasn't the normal crisp you know,
especially the movement is a lot of pitches were flat. T.
You mentioned a couple of days ago that maybe he
might have been fighting his back, But do you think
that played any role? You know what, I think he's
fighting a lot. And you know, I think you also

(01:02:58):
have to respect the fact that guy wants to go
out there, and you know, he's our you know, he's
our horse, and you know, sometimes it doesn't work. T do.
I know, like you mentioned, it's still early, but what
are some, if any of the takeaways that you take
away from this season? If you begun to even wrap

(01:03:19):
your head around No, no, not yet. Would there'll be
time for that? Like I said, I mean, we literally
you know, five ten minutes ago we're out there playing. Uh,
you know, nobody wanted the season to be over. It Uh,
it doesn't wind down. It comes to a crashing halt,
and nobody, myself included, was ready for it to be over.

(01:03:40):
There was a little bit of Terry Franco, as he says,
still raw after that loss tonight. And you know, for me,
the biggest at bat of the game wasn't in the
ninth inning. It wasn't the strikeout when Jackson struck out
and the third strike was dropped and he wasn't tagged,
didn't go to first space. There's a lot of stuff
going on at that point. Although the presence of mind
of Jackson to run the first ease would have been

(01:04:00):
pretty cool, because you know, it wasn't occupied. The biggest
at bat was Robertson coming in when the Indians had
the momentum, and it was basic, basic, based after Sabathia
and getting lind Or to ground into that double play
to end the inning, because I know at that point
the Indians fans are going, Okay, we're through six, we're good.
We cut it to three two, we're gonna get a run.

(01:04:20):
But that was it, and you know Lindora that double play.
I mean, look, Lindoor is the best shortstop in baseball.
He's better than Gregorias. You can't betted bedded and Gina
A is greater than B and B is great. He
didn't see. That means as great he didn't see. But
that was the biggest in the game. That was That
was when I felt the air went out of the

(01:04:41):
Indians balloon because now the Yankees are into their bullpen,
and they're into a rested bullpen, and it was gonna
be tough sledding, really tough sledding against that that that
double play was such a killer for the Indians. Just
go into what Robertson's met for this team. Scoreless outings
nine of his last ten games, which means since he

(01:05:02):
came over from the White Sox, I'm advancing to play
the Astros as well. Fox Sports Radio the Jason Smith
Show coming up in one minute, gonna play things. The
Indians are better than Oh boy, load up, But first
let's say hello to Tom Looney and find out what
oh oh he's already got music playing. Find out what's

(01:05:23):
trending after a brilliant season where they won thirty of
their final thirty three games. The tribe is no longer
on the warpath. Yes and d D. How do you
like that? In the deciding game five, d D's at
two home runs in a row. D D. Gregory makes
Yankee fans neo farious. He it's a two run home run.

(01:05:46):
And here in the third inning, the Yankees take a
three nothing League five to was your finalist? John Sterling
with the call on w f A N New York.
Yankees face the Houston Astros for the American League Championship Friday,
the Yankees first ALCS appearances. Game four, the Cubs National's
best of five n LDS was played earlier. It's god,

(01:06:10):
it's gone goodbye on a day when no one could
hit it out. Michael Taylor is in a grand slam
here at the top of the apenning and it's now
the Nationals five and the Cubs nothing unbelievable. Five nothing
was your final. Charlie Slows with the call Pesky Knats
Radio Network. Game five Tomorrow night in Washington. The winner

(01:06:31):
faces the Dodgers and the NLCS National League Championship Series
Saturday night in La La Land. And now more of
the thrill of victory for the Yankees than the agony
of defeat for the Indians. With Jason Smith and Michael
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Gonna play now? Thing? Oh, yes, are better than things.
The Indians are better than. Will judge whether or not
these are actual things. The Indians are better than twitter at,
how about a fresco? Twitter At? How about a Fresca?

(01:07:15):
Dave says, the Indians are better than fake news. I
don't know, I kind of like fake news. I don't know,
its tongues wagging, and it's just I feel like all
news is fake news. Now well, I just feel like
everybody needs to investigate a little more. I think it
makes us put our thinking caps on what's real, what's imagined?
A I kind of kind of like fake news. Well

(01:07:37):
is this mean? It'd be nice to be able to
pick up a newspaper and believe that, well, no, it's
actually news like it was growing up, although they could
claim a lot of that was fabricated as well. You
know I like fake news is because if I read
about spoilers for a TV show, I go, but was
this really a spoiler? Well, you give a lot of
information out here. I mean you ruin the entire Star

(01:07:58):
Wars franchise. I predict it's something right. No, you crushed
the force of what was right. I said it was
gonna be. You never gave me my money back? Did
you want your money? Yeah? I did really for me
and many of just my friends because they were all listening.
That was because they show me love listening to the
show in the night and they were angry. They should

(01:08:19):
say your partners, Yeah, that they smuggled in. So they're
the ones in the movie that when you hear the
bottles rolling all the way to the floor at the
front of the movie theater, isn't that the greatest thing?
And you're that guy things. The Indians are better than
Adrian Peterson in a Saints jersey. Yeah, yeah, Adrian Peterson

(01:08:44):
in the Cardinals jersey. We'll see now. I think that's
gonna be the Indians because Peterson's gonna think no matter
where he is. Yeah, but he's probably gonna play ten
more games. Wow, that's a final Cindy says, the Indians
are better than being in the hospital. Yeah, yeah, you
know what I mean, you know, unless you're in the hospital. Like,

(01:09:06):
is there like a Facebook post that I'm supposed to
react with what's wrong? Like? Or not like? Or no, no,
I'm supposed to right, what's wrong? Sweetie? No, I think
it's this is not a cryptic Facebook post. This isn't
oh I have a secret, or oh tomorrow is a
big day. No, she's just saying being in the hospital.
I hope she's okay, it's really on. I'm I'm asking.

(01:09:28):
I went for the comedy. I'm sorry. Frank says the
Indians are better than snorting a white powdery substance in
the Miami Dolphins office. Well, they both ended in termination.
Oh wow, look at you. Wow, you're the one liner
assassin tonight. It's pretty good. Although it ended good for
the guy, except you know, for force to accept you
shouldn't that moment? Yeah, run uh. The Indians are better

(01:09:55):
than the strike zone of that game. Oh yeah, that
strikes that strike zone absolutely awful. Ah. The Indians are
better than the Jets tanking plans. Oh yeah, yeah, because
that Jets tankings plan were at first place. They successfully
tanked three straight game first to find themselves out of
the playoffs. The Indians are better than the Browns. Anybody's

(01:10:19):
better than the Browns. Anybody, any anybody, anybody except the
former line code. Okay, all right, struggle, Well, no, he
had he got paid, dude, I mean get his salary.
The Indians are better than the Indians are better than

(01:10:40):
New York football teams. That is erroneous. They're better than
the Giants, not better than the Jets. The Jets are
playing for first place. I was asking a radio appearance, Hey,
for fantasy purposes, who do you pick up in the
wide receiver for the Giants? I said, make the preemptive
claim on oo sink the keem Knicks. Just really, it's

(01:11:01):
all Evan Ingram. Just throw them all in thirty seven
times things. The Indians are better than their home game
attendance numbers. You talk about not letting a defeat sink
in for five minutes, then you're gonna twist the knife. Well,
I mean Seth Everard, who joined us a little bit
earlier a friend of the show. He certainly uh came

(01:11:21):
over the top with that earlier. The Indians and what
happened to our music? Alex tischert what happened? Come on, man,
we're still doing the whole thing and paying attention. The
hell is wrong, it's over. We're talking anyway. He goes,
I've had when Harmon talks, do you just hear like
the Peanuts adult voices? Wat wa wah wah wah. Wh

(01:11:42):
Is that what happened? Because he was the one talking
and the music went out? It was actually when you
were refraining to the Jets being better than everybody. It's
really the power of my voice was so overwhelming that
it short circuited things. Your mikes weren't even on. This
show isn't even being broadcast. We've been preempted by Ask Walt.
We have not been on the air for three years.
There will never be another Asphalt. If he doesn't call,

(01:12:04):
and he's got an hour in twenty minutes, Wow, you dude,
stop threatening. My dad cannot call. If he doesn't call him,
Jerry Jones stops my family. And if he doesn't stand,
we're gonna go toe to toe on my dad's seventy.
He can't stand for very long. He's got to sit well,
and he's not playing things. The Indians are better than
real Super Dave says the USA men's soccer team. That's

(01:12:26):
low hanging fruit right there. Sometimes you gotta hit it
off the tea buddy, That's that's pretty easy. I think
things the Indians are better then the movie Battle of
the Sexes. I can tell you that it is absolutely true.
Battle of Sexes was very corral and Stone. Neither of
them tried to become the character, and the movie was uneven.

(01:12:48):
It was all over the place. It was boring. It
was really just not a good movie. Now that is
a completely scared you know why because they all got
naps in the movie. That's what it is. They all
got naps that good. That's why not trust me not,
you can skip it. I was so disappointed Emmistone and
Steve Carrell there. I was like, really did do any

(01:13:11):
research at all. It's like they said, oh, this is
how I'm gonna play this part, and I'm like, that's
not Billie Jean King at all. It's crazy. Oh, by
the way, I do have a quick Billy Jean King story.
Wouldn't expect that, No, no, no, So friends of mine
adopted a baby and they were flying back from where
they adopted the baby from Kentucky and uh As. It

(01:13:34):
was two women friends of ours who adopted a baby. Awesome,
nicest people in the world. And they landed at the
airport and my wife went to go pick them up.
So she goes to pick them up. They're waiting for
their luggage and she texts, Oh my god, they're on
the same plane as Billy Jean King. She's waiting for
her luggage. I said, oh my god, tell her. They
wouldn't been able to ever adopt a baby if she

(01:13:55):
didn't beat Bobby Riggs. So like one friend went and
told her that and said, thank you. We just stop
to the baby, who would have never done it if
you didn't beat Bobby Riggs and Tennis. And she was like, wow,
it's wonderful. Congratulations that got pictures with her and everything.
There's a story I did not expect a Billy that.
I didn't expect that story. Yeah, it was awesome. I

(01:14:15):
didn't think I but you know, I had a Billy
Jean King story. This is just a few months ago.
This just be I forgot about that story Billy Jean
Kings all because I tracked texted and said, hey, tell
her because you beat Bobby Riggs. We could have top
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(01:14:37):
More reaction, you want to get it. We can play things.
The Indians are better than again? Twitter at, how about
a Fresco? That's twitter At, how about a Fresca? Jason
Mike Harmon. We'll see if my dad can get in
for a segment of asked Walt, Yeah, if he has
enough coffee. Otherwise, Frostburg staid, he's fired fire. We don't

(01:14:57):
pay him, so are a guy him in your house?
But coming up next, the most shocking thing that I
will admit and tell you about the Yankees. No timp, timp, timp, Tim,
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The Yankees beat the Indians tonight five to they move
on to the a LCS. They'll take on the Astros.
How did the final out sound It sounded just like this.

(01:15:42):
He is the one to sin. Three is called Bowl
Game over American League Division Series over Yankees win Yankees
when a fabulous comeback down O two. They go home
due the Yankees and win two games. Come here to

(01:16:02):
Cleveland against Klueber and win the ball game three too,
And now they have vanging each other. Yankee radio network
on the call. The final pitch a pitch way out
of the strike zone to Austin Jackson, who gets called
out looking. Gary Sanchez drops the final pitch, picks the
ball up, unsure that that was really a strike because

(01:16:25):
it was way out of the strike zone. Jackson's upset,
He holds onto the baseball, puts in his pocket, runs
out to the mound. Him and Chapman started hugging the
Yankees all running. Austin Jackson could have run to first base.
Here's the thing. If Jackson runs the first base, if
if because it's it's chaos at that point, if the

(01:16:46):
game is still quote live, right, if the game is
still live. If he gets the first base and it's yes,
there's two outs runners at first and second, Ouraldi's Chapman
would have completely melted down and the Indians would have
been able to get a couple of runs on the
board without a doubt, because he was close to melting

(01:17:08):
down to that, Really, do you need to mound visits
when you're up by three runs and there's two outs
in the ninth inning. But Chapman needed a mound visit.
He need a second nound visit. But as what what what?
What is it? Oh, that could be sealing my signs
at second base. It's like you there's two outs and
there's a runner at second and you're up by three runs.
He would trust me. He was dying to fold. He

(01:17:28):
was dying to fold in that situation. But as we're
watching it live here in the Geico studios on the
monitors obviously we don't have sound on where what we
watched the video, it looked like Sanchez was coming to
the mound for yet another visit, and then all of
a sudden, a celebration around Jackson's looking back at the
umpire confused and angry and just chaos and us because

(01:17:51):
now this is becoming a trending topic of well, why
didn't he run? Why didn't like continue? I mean called done?
Or is there is there a rule by which if
he stands there long enough, then he's automatically out. Now
at some point the game ends, right, that's the things
like that. What he would have had to do was

(01:18:11):
run to first base after you know, everybody starts running
in and there's no way they're gonna throw a to
first base and get him out. But at that point
is the game over? I mean when when technically is
the game over? That okay? Now, if he ran to
first base, he could have he was okay to get there,
I mean at some point because then the umpire turns

(01:18:32):
away and I don't know, I don't know what you know,
the part the the the actual decision is. But at
some point it's okay, that's it, and you can't just
run because play is over. Maybe when the Yankee storm
the mound. I don't know, but at some point you
gotta think that's happenings ninety nine point nine nine this
QC baseball dot Com. It is not a legal catch

(01:18:55):
and the catcher must tag the runner or throw him
out at first base. Rule six oh five special is
that it batters out when a third strike is legally
caught by the catcher, and goes on to state that
this must occur before the ball hits the ground. He
didn't catch it. No, he didn't catch it. It was
the time he tried to frame the pitch, and because
he tried to frame it, he didn't quite get it,

(01:19:16):
and so it bounced out of his level and he
just picked it up and put it in. Like everybody
lost their minds at that moment. If he had waited
one second and then I'm watching Sanchez run and if
he had to wait a couple of seconds, I would
have to say, because once he starts running, then the

(01:19:36):
Yankees all get in and they're all celebrating. But I
gotta think he he had he had at least a
beat or two to run down the first base. Again,
I don't I don't know. That's something I look. I'm
not afraid to admit when something I don't know, I
don't know when. Technically the game is over a standing
three counts standing eight count so he technically wasn't out
for a couple of seconds either way, ball game over.

(01:19:58):
Celebration Champagne from the Washington Post. Adam Kilgore put out
the fact that the Indians. Let me make sure I
get his cite this correctly. Adam Kilgore on Twitter put
out the note that the Indians have lost seven seventeen
of their past twenty series clinchers. Think about that. That's

(01:20:22):
not just going back a decade. We're talking about long
time handwringing, angst and well this two tables. When it's
all said and done, twitter At, how about a fresco?
Twitter At? How about a fresco? The Jason Smith showed
Jason Mike Harmon Yankees in the a LCS because Austin
Jackson didn't run the first But trust me, Chapman was

(01:20:44):
dying to fold if that the pressure was so immense,
because why else do you need to mount visits when
you're up by three runs and two hours in the ninth.
Just just a big fan. I don't wanted to see
what was gonna happen. Right if that pitch gets called
a ball all of a sudden, We've we've got some
drama and if you have to go from the series
is over, we want to Hey, oh, by the way,
first and second with two outs, good luck, I'm telling

(01:21:05):
you things change. And he would have he would have
exploded on the matter. He saw you already had a
group chat open for Fabriano and Walt so that you
can say ha ha. He would have burst into flames
and his ashes would have formed the Yankee logo. Draw
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(01:21:27):
hear from Joe Girardi. He's gonna say blank you with
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It is all about the Yankees celebration, right, and Lebron

(01:21:48):
James celebrating right, noted Yankee fan unless he's not. Oh,
I don't know. I think he's Wait, is Lebron's he
said anything on Twitter? Or has he been doing zero
dark third? I just we'd heard the ya obviously if
he's done a really but uh, by the way, no,
he's not doing it. Um, he's got a picture of

(01:22:12):
Michael Chiklis from the Fantastic four Terrible movie that was,
And he's got Eminem's uh rap about President Trump from
Last Night. Right, those are the last few things so
I think he's being I think he's being smart and
he's staying away because he's a Yankee fan. But the Windians,
well he did tweet that out on October six. Yeah, Lebron,

(01:22:35):
I would have to to kind of be quiet here
or or you're gonna get one of those My heart
breaks for the Indians again, but congratulations for the Yankee.
Yankees win Yankees. So I thought you're gonna get You're

(01:22:57):
gonna get one of those cryptic oh yeah, but there
one of them, like almost like a politician would say, hey, uh,
you know, tough loss, but congratulations of the team moving on.
I think that's what we're getting from Lebron James. Alright,
let's see. I like that. And obviously for Lebron James
aggravating the ankle injury, so people obsessing over that at

(01:23:17):
the moment. That and the fact that if you bought
tickets for any of the Lakers preseason you don't get
to see Alonzo ball play. So are NBA stories swirling
about eight seven seven nine On Fox eight seven seven
nine nine six six three six nine, the Jason Smith
showed Jason my Carmen you want to get it on

(01:23:37):
Twitter at how about a fresca And speaking of Twitter,
we'll do another Things the Indians are better than. Well,
there's a lot of thming up later on this hour.
You know, we do this for Jared Goff, and we
have to do it for Jared Goff again coming off
that game last week off Cooper Cup had just caught
that pass. Oh my god. But things the Indians are
better than. After they gack away a too nothing lead
in the a l DS, the Yankees win, They're moving

(01:23:59):
on to the American League Championship Series against the Houston Astros.
But Yankee manager Joe Girardi, who was dead and buried
after Game two, he was done. May they gotta fire
that guy? Review? Listen? And they still might, They still might.
Look We talked to Seth Everett last hour on the
show and and he said, listen, Joe Girardi has done

(01:24:20):
three year, three year, three year, four year deals with
the Yankees. Are the Yankees really going to give another
three year deal? Probably not, But he was done after
this year. I'm not reviewing the the I didn't review
the hit bat Unlnie choosen all in Game two, and
and I'm sick that I didn't do it. And he
went from being standoff is about it after game two

(01:24:41):
to a full apology before game three and that was
it and he was done and they were poisy axs
was hanging over his head after game. And now Joe
Girardi is back. When did you come from? When did
you go? Came back from the dead weld ketch, Joe,
wh did you come from? Uh? So here is Joe Girardi,

(01:25:03):
victorious Yankee manager, from his press conference a few moments ago.
The Yankees onto the Alcs for the first time since
two thousand twelve. So you you left her last Friday
night down two oh, and it didn't look really good.
What do you attribute to just a total turnaround in
this series? Just to fight in our club? Um, you know,
we win a game one to nothing. That's the tremendous

(01:25:24):
pictures duel. And you think about how that went about.
Tanaka throws a tremendous game and Greg Bird hits a
homer off Andrew Miller, who doesn't give him up. Um,
come back the next day and you win, Sevy pitch
is a good game. And our team just I mean,
I just look at our bats, that bats that d
D had today, that bats that already had. Um, there's
just a ton of fight in this club, and um,

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you know, it's a great mixture of youth and and
um veteran players that are leading the way. And it's
hard to believe because we just beat a really, really
good team. You had many many questions about a lot
of things. Talk about the emotions out that you're a
feeling now that you've come all the way back to
win the series. And I don't know if anyone had
asked you because I came a little late. Talk about

(01:26:08):
Gardeners at bat because that may have been the best
at bat I've ever seen. Well, the two at bats,
the one he had off a Miller two was just
a tremendous in bat um. And and to be able
to add those runs, you know, you start for me,
I start to worry when you have a long inning
you don't score that it affects your picture going back
out there. You know, champion of walking the first guy,
And I was like, we're gonna have these long and
bats in this really long ending. We need to score

(01:26:29):
some runs and just a grade a bat by Guardia,
heads up play by Fraser, and and to be able
to tack on two runs was really important. But you know,
the the emotions from I'm trying to think when we
were here Friday. The difference between Friday and today is
about as big as you can get. Um. I don't
know at any point in my career that I felt

(01:26:52):
worse than I did on Friday. Um, and it was
I have to express many times it's it's the hurt
for the other people that that that it's so hard
for me. Um. So the emotions. I mean, these guys
had my back, and they fought and fought, and again
they beat a really, really good team. It's like Andrew,
I got two questions. The first one did after the game,

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to do the players or anybody in particular say something
to you that stuck with you that was important to
you going into Game three? And and no, Um, well,
I met with a club before we went into that game,
and um and talked about just winning one game and
how all year long that I believed in them from

(01:27:33):
the day we left spring training, and I believe in
him now. And um that you've always had good at bats,
you've grinded out pitches when you're on on pitching, and
and you've never quit and continue to have each other's
back and let's win one game. And Todd Fraser was

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the first guy that said something, let's go and that
did stick out in my mind. Um, I'll never forget
that because, as you know, again, I was about as
low as I could be, as as as a baseball
player or a baseball coach or whatever I was. And um,
I mean it's been Friday. It happened on Friday. I
mean I've been carrying this burden for five or six days. Um,

(01:28:16):
it's hard. Um. You know, if we lose on on
on Sunday, Um, if we lose on Monday, it really
really hurts. And if we would have lost today probably
would have hurt even worse. Um. So for me, what
those guys did for me, I'll never forget it. Joe
Girardi A yeah, fired God lucky that we came back

(01:28:45):
to win. I'm keeping my job with Joe bred Gardner.
Look at Bill, David Robertson, Todd Fraser instrumental to the
success of the Yankees as the White Sox advanced. Yeah,
you know, I went from the Mets advancing with Jay
rus and now your White Sox advance. Yeah, yeah, I
guess you can. You allowed me to claim J. Bruce

(01:29:06):
and Ken griff Jr. Is Hall of Fame plague. Stop
you're getting You're not getting Ken griff I'm not giving
you Ken Griffy. You're not getting Ken Griffy. I'll give
you Robertson and Frasier. I could have given your Chris
Sale too, but the Red Sox uh Now, I know. Look,
Brett Gardner's at bat was phenomenal. The at bat in
the top of the ninth thinning in which he fouled

(01:29:26):
off pitch after pitch, base hit to right field that
drove in an insurance run, and then J. Bruce makes
a lollipop throw into Francisco lindoor, the ball bounces off
his glove, second run scampers in, really giving the Yankees
breathing room with that three run lead. It was a
huge at bat. It was a big deal. It was tense.
He kept fouling off a lot of pitches, but honestly,

(01:29:47):
the biggest at bat of the game. I go back
to when the Indians had cut the lead to three too.
It was three nothing Yankees for a while and C. C.
Sabathia had the Indians bats silent, and then in the
fifth inning it unraveled pretty quickly for him. He doesn't
get out of it. He goes four and a third,
which at this point, you go four to third as
a starting pitcher in the Major League Baseball playoffs, you're

(01:30:08):
a hero. You know, Hey, oh, we got four innings
out of our starter tonight, so we're able to take
it easy on our bullpen. They have to bring the
bullpen in the second inning. But all that momentum and
the Indians had first and second, one out, and the
absolute guy you want coming up in Lindor and Lindoor
hits into the double play. Robertson gets in the ground

(01:30:29):
into it inning over. That was it. That was the
big moment because then the Yankee bullpen look gets rested.
You know, what're you gonna do. We're gonna have Robertson,
We're gonna go to Chapman, we Bata, whatever you want.
We we got a bunch of guys. That's the Yankee
strength is their bullpen. They have no problem getting there.
The thing is getting there when they're rested. With the
day off, everybody's bouncing back. You do whatever you want,

(01:30:49):
and that was gonna be really tough. That was a
huge moment. I remember seeing that double playing going. They
needed to tie the game there, They needed to get
one more in because now it's gonna be really tough
to at that extra run against the Yankee bullpen, really difficult. Well,
you look at Robertson and what he's been for this
team since coming over from the White Sox a one
point oh three e r A and scoreless nine of

(01:31:11):
his last ten appearances. Just one of those guys that
he'll stretch it to where you're seeing two and two
thirds in this game after Sabbathia leaves, so you're able
to push deeper into that pen before you have to
start really burning arms. And for Joe Girardi making all
those tough decisions, it's nice that you have that type

(01:31:32):
of reliever in the middle or set up or wherever
you need Robertson to be if you need to slide
them back to the closer role. That that you have
that luxury, and you look at overall, just dominant performance
and that at bat for all the misgivings and everything
that went and wrong for the Yankees early in this series,

(01:31:53):
and Joe Girardi's comments, I mean obviously huge and taking
it very hard, you know, on a stee's about as
much as Joe Girardi has ever given you in an interview,
was hello, I was low, Hello, really low, Hello, really low,
as low as I've ever been. It's more than you
normally game. It normally gives you about three or four words. Yeah,

(01:32:15):
but you know what I see. But I don't know
how honesty is about the situation because you go back
to game two and you heard him Sarah here, I
was low. I was low as low game two. In
the post game, he was very standoffish. I didn't have
information that we should have challenged the boy. I didn't
have the information. I took CC out because you know,

(01:32:35):
this is what we do and how he did. He
was very He was very I'm gonna fight in the
in the moment, he was angry. But but I don't
because I think he just felt at that point, you know,
whether it was just about or not that attacked. I
made the calls. I'm the manager. I think that was
pr spin. I think that was pr spin. I think
that was Joe Girardi realizing because no, we didn't have

(01:32:58):
the info, then realize how wrong he was. Then knew, Okay,
you know what, people hate me? Right, now the Yankees
hate me, and if we lose this series, I'm gonna
get fired. So you know what, now I gotta go
the completely other way because the next day suddenly it was, oh,
I'm sick and I'm kicking myself. He's only sick and
kicking himself because he saw what the reaction was. If
he was really sick and kicking himself, he would have

(01:33:19):
said it after the game was over, but he might
have seen then. You know, now he knew by the
time you finished and get Really he didn't know. He
didn't know how many pitches Sabathi was at when he
took him out in Game two. No, that can pay
he had. That was completely a pr thing. What's funny
is we still remember that there were seventy seven. I've

(01:33:40):
never been able to do that for any type of
picture the rest of my life. It's gonna be C. C.
Sabathia se Friday night, early October. We do have sound
from Francisco Lindor following that double play that he hit
into in the fifth inning to end the inning. Let's
hear it. I cannot hit straight ball. I hid it

(01:34:01):
very much. Football, that's all free. You have no Mathers mother,
We're just gonna run run lines for the rest of
the night. Now. I honestly I thought it was gonna
be when when Ricky Vaughan punched out Corbin Burnson at
the I really thought that would have been pretty good.
I would I would have I would have like that.

(01:34:24):
Twitter and at about a fresco? Twitter? At how about
a fresco? The Jason Smith showed Jason Mike Harmon live
from the Guy Go Studios. We have things the Indians
are better than, and we're continuing to follow how long
Austin Jackson could have run to first base four on
the final play of the game. Box, that's Aaron Judge

(01:34:51):
pouring the champagne in the Yankee Clubhouse right now and
then striking out trying to drink it. Really Fox Wow
Box or It's Radio The Jason Smith Show, Jason Mike
Carmen Live from the Geico Studios. Yankees move on to
the a LCS. They beat the Indians by the final
of five to two sounds. Soundtrack though now is not

(01:35:12):
either victory sex or defeat sex. Uh. Victory victory sex
is always better because defeat sex you're distracted the entire
time yeah, because I'm like, how do we not convert
that third? Swell, how do we not convert that third
and twelve? Seriously, cannot believe we didn't do. But isn't

(01:35:33):
that the job of this significant other to take your
mind away from that and give you one of the
one or more big wins? Do you know what? Listen? Listen, listen.
I could have been surrounded by supermodels after Game one
of the World Series in two thousand fifteen, and I

(01:35:54):
would have just said, girls, I'm sorry. All I keep
seeing is Familia quick pitching and giving up that been
home run and the ball falling into the black center
field seats. I'm sorry, rhoneous, That's what would happen. I
would have been too tough, too distracted, defeat sex is. Seriously,
it's the game's over, not in the moment of the

(01:36:14):
home run, but the well, like how like a week
after it's I'm okay fifteen minutes, or like how long
it is for Austin Jackson to not run down to
first base more by going too like like like strike
three out, it's over. Turn the TV off? All right,
let's get no. I can't room need a little bit

(01:36:38):
of time. I don't know what the time would be
an hour that not? What if the Frostberg tie shirt?
You guys want to chime in here? If the game man,
I think he's overthinking it, listen or we need to
talk to him. And Cleveland are having sex, right, Yes
they are, really, really really I don't think so now
they maybe wailing in andes are going to be born

(01:36:59):
in Cleveland and nine months from today if it is
a thirty year drought, by time they're of age, they'll
be ready to win again. You were a Game five
ail ds baby? Really? Yes? Didn't they lose? Yes? Don't.
We had to find some positivity, find a little bit
of love, a little bit of togetherness in our lives.
If you have a Game five, baby, you're gonna grow.

(01:37:21):
You're gonna spend your whole life for setting that kid.
Yeah when was he conceived? Yeah? Then not not not
They're they're used to it. But that's that's the ultimate.
K that's the ultimate. And taking a lemon and squeezy
and you won't get a lement. Not defeat sex is

(01:37:42):
too tough. It's I mean, I'm trying to think Jets
lose a big game, like a huge game like the
like this week to go, We're gonna beat the crap
out of the Patriots. Uh, you know, like if the Jet,
like the Jets lose AFC title game that night, I
don't well, we didn't lose. We just lost on Thanksgiving onright, alright, alright,

(01:38:06):
I don't know. The butt fumble like like that would
be fine. I remember watching that. I was a friend's place.
You gotta gathering about thirty people, and I'm the last one.
They were like they'd already called for food feet served,
and I'm I'm grabbing my drinking. I'm getting ready to
walk over and wake up at the d D. And
I see that happen live. I go, hey, everybody, get

(01:38:28):
back out here. You're not gonna believe this. I knew
when that happened. I thought, oh, we're gonna talk about
this forever. No, Like, if it's a normal Jet's loss
about fine. But if it's well, I'm talking about a
loss without bigger steaks. And the look at his face
he can barely get that line out. He was laughing. Yeah,

(01:38:49):
the charges are on their way to Sam Darnald and
he's they're all big. I don't know if it was
just a normal like week three, Week four, Okay, no,
then everything's fine, but defeat sex. After you lose who's
in games five or game seven? You need some time
to get over that. If you're a real fan, I
think it's a slide over kind of If you're one
of those fans, I just go to the games. I
got these box seats or I'm sitting there. No, No,

(01:39:11):
that the not I'm having sex because I don't care. No,
I think you should not have sex to show that
you care about your team for at least that night,
and then have sex the next day. It's the dumbest thing.
You had a lot of theories here or I've said
I like this in theory, and this is the worst theory.
You might as well cut your Johnson off. No, No,

(01:39:31):
you need. You need to make penance. You need we
use it as a monopoly. I'm texting the moil right
now for you. You need a final. You need to
make penance, you need to wear It's it's like the
scarlet letter. You gotta wait a little bit before you
have well I mean, well scarlet letters. She had sex
with a priest, so you know that wasn't right. But

(01:39:52):
but no, but I mean you have to wait a while.
You gotta you gotta, you know, you should do that.
You should have that sort of loyalty to your team.
Don't have sex until the next day. Lost, So you
wait till the clock to strike midnight on the roll
over baby is it? Is it the next day? It
is the next day. It is the next day at
three am Eastern time. So an hour and a half

(01:40:14):
from now. No, no, no, no, no, no. They lost
on the on the left side. I'm just saying no.
But I'm saying, if you're on the West Coast and
you're an Indians fan, you wait another hour and a half.
The West Coast Indian fans and Eastern time. Yeah. Mike Mayer,
who works in our in our sound studio, recording and
things and producing, he's gotta wait. Everybody's wait. That's the

(01:40:37):
best thing to do, the best thing to do. Wait
like that. Meanwhile, the final out of the game, as
we get to defeat sex and I'll put that out
there on Twitter and see who agrees with me. Uh,
the final out of the game. Well, it sounded like this,
or it could have been the Hibernator that baby is

(01:40:59):
deaf in the league going away for the winner. Whatever,
for Vaughn, it might be see you later. He's probably
gonna become a spectator. That's not exactly how it sounded,
but that was Fox Sports one on the call. Sounds
like Sterling Sada, Like Sada could have been John Sterling NBI.
It's with uh. Here's the final call from tonight. He

(01:41:22):
is the one to shike three. Is called ball game
over American League Division Series over Yankees win Yankees when
a fabulous comeback down O two, they go home? Do
the Yankees and win two games? Come here to Cleveland

(01:41:43):
against Klueber and win the ball game three too. So
there it is Yankees Radio Network on the call. But
here's the thing about the final play. The pitch was
clearly a ball. It was a foot outside of the
strike zone. And home played umpire Jeff Nelson, who called
every single pitch of strike tonight. You know he had to.

(01:42:03):
You had a playoff record for the most strikeouts in
a game. He had sixteen and fifteen. Gary Sanchez dropped
the third strike, and there was a lot of questions.
Now I wouldn't to say questions. There was a lot
of unsurety around the final pitch because it was a

(01:42:24):
very high pitch and he dropped the pitch and was
it game over? Sanchez kind of looks back at the
jump and he gets to the mound and Chapman hugs him,
and there was a little bit of a Hey, I
don't really know what's going on here. Austin Jackson could
have run to first base because first base was not occupied,
because we had the runner take second after defensive indifference,

(01:42:47):
he could have run to first base. He didn't drop,
he didn't catch the third strike, didn't take the runner
or throw to first base, and the questions out there,
you know, why didn't he do it? I wonder how
long could he have run to first base? Four wre like,
at some point, the game's gotta be over, right, the
game's gotta be over If the Yankees are celebrating and
Austin Jackson doesn't run where, that's it. And no matter

(01:43:09):
what happens, he can't just start running. But I got
I got well, But I gotta think before you get
the rule. I gotta think that if he doesn't leave
the batter's box, he can run, Like if he doesn't
make a move to leave the field, he's allowed to
run because just because he's talking to the umpire and
he complains doesn't mean the play isn't live, because there's
plays where if there's a play at the plate and
the umpire calls a guy safe, the catcher starts yelling

(01:43:32):
at the at the umpire and the umpires yelling back. Meanwhile,
if time isn't called, runners run around the basis. We've
seen that once in a while. So I have to think,
as long as he's still in the batter's box and
hasn't left the batter's box to go back to the dugout,
he still can run to first base. Right, Well, that's
as the rule sits. This is six point o nine.

(01:43:53):
The batter becomes a runner when the third strike called
by the umpire is not caught, provided first based unoccupied
first bases occupied with you out continues. A batter who
does not realize his situation on a third strike not caught,
and who is not in the process of running to
first base shall be declared out once he leaves the
dirt circle surrounding home plate. So the dirt circle so

(01:44:14):
he could be he could have left the batter's box, walked,
tried to walk back, and got to the edge of
the circle and then turned around and ran the dirt
circle surrounding home plate, So so yeah, the batters box.
Then then there's the area of the dirt around it.
So he could have pretended to walk back to the
dugout and said oh man and dropped the bat and
then turned and ran and by that point who knows

(01:44:34):
where the bag? You can we could have a Fred
Merkel play. That's it. If he ran and where's the ball?
Where's the ball? And a ball is being running you
because Sanchez hasn't nobody's there and the Yankees are all
piling onto Chapman on the field. I he could have
done that. He could have done it. The nineteen sixty
one New Cards Scoops card. I had this when I

(01:44:55):
was younger. New Cards, well, it was Baseball Scoops from
from nine uh and the the Cards title was Merkel
pulls Boner Yes to Merkel Boner game. Read a whole
book on that. It just fascinating. It's called uh. One

(01:45:20):
of the best baseball books I read Crazy oh eight
was the book. Kate Murphy is the person that wrote it,
and it was all about the end of the two
thousand eight Pennant race in the National League and it
came down to the final weekend. It was three teams.
It was the Giants and the Pirates and the Cubs.
And obviously, you know Merkel's boner, you know, uh gets
into it in a big way. But here's the thing
is that not only do you get information about the

(01:45:41):
play and how crazy it was and why it was
able to stand, but you will read and I'm not lying,
you will read every third page of that book and
you will say, there's no way that really happened. But
it did. There's no way that really happened. Like there's
one game where Christy Mathewson wasn't going to be used
in a game, so they let him leave early in
like the Evan Thinning. But it turns out they needed him,

(01:46:01):
so they cim it was from mold. No. They ran
to go get him when he was all changed out
of his uniform and they said, you got to get
in the game. Fest you put his uniform back on.
He forgot to put his cleats on. He pitched getting
in work shoes. I mean that. I mean, I like,
there's gonna get an endorsement deal lot of that. Look
how versatile they are brought to you buy floor Shine
than the shoes to wear when you've forgotten your cleats

(01:46:24):
in the locker room. I mean really crazy. Oh eight,
one of the one of the best. But it would
have been a Fred Merkel boner moment if that happen there,
that would have been awesome. Twitter, and how about a
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But first let's talk to Tom Looney and find out
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(01:46:45):
thirty of their final thirty three games, the tribe is
no longer on the warpath. Yes, and how do you
like that? In the deciding game five dads at two
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And here in the third inningh the Yankees take a three.

(01:47:07):
John sterling with the word pictures from w f A
N New York five two was your final. The Yankees
will face the Houston Astros for the American League Championship Friday.
That's the yankees first ALCS appearance since Game four the
Cubs Nationals best of five n LDS was played earlier
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(01:47:32):
when no one could hit it out. Michael Taylor is
in a grand slam here at the top of the
eighth inning, and it's now the Nationals five and the Cubs.
Nothing unbelievable. Nothing was your final. Charlie Slows with a
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(01:47:55):
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but Jared Goff has played okay. So now the Indians,
after blowing a two nothing leading the a l Ds,
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Let's go Twitter, and how about a fresca? Getting on

(01:48:59):
Twitter at how about a fresca? Things. The Indians are
better than Pedro Binez. How many times do people say
not him? Wow, you're number one with us two Frostburgh things.
The Indians are better than Mike Ever says diaper Rash. Yeah,

(01:49:22):
it's not good for anybody. No, I don't know anybody
that that. Oh hey guess what I got, diaper Rash. Congratulations.
You get it coming in as you're starting your your
life and as you're going out in the middle. Hopefully
you can avoid it. Oscar says, the Indians are better
than inhaling a bag of old Milwaukee farts. Wow, oh,

(01:49:46):
I just had a flashback to college and just like
nights after you drink like Old Milwaukee, or appeals for
anthing like that. How bad? Oh god, that's terrible, gastronomic delight.
It's not good for an anybody know, the Indians are
better than my ex wife's cooking. Sorry for your loss,

(01:50:08):
Mike says, the Indians are better than Jake Cutler. Sincerely,
Jay Cutler, true, tough run. You're not gonna miss Jay
Cutler when he's gone. He thinks we're gonna miss Jay
Cutler when he's gone. People like the punching bags, right,
some miss Tony Romo. But they immediately flipped because he's

(01:50:28):
now in the media. Look how good he is predicting plays.
Jake Cutler could do that. A lot of people like
Jake Cutler. And you know what, he's not even on
the metal stand. He's not even finishing in the top
ten of train wrecked moments that have gone on in
the Miami Dolphins organization over these last six months. Hell,
in the last four weeks. Remember when, like a week

(01:50:48):
and a half ago and the dolphins biggest problem was
Cutler not doing anything on the Wildcat play, which was
easily explained away, don't do anything. In other words, don't
get blown up. Stacy says the Indians are better than cheese. Whoa, whoa.
I don't know that there's anything in the world outside
of chocolate. Does anything better outside of chocolate. It's better

(01:51:09):
than cheese. Lactose issue we're talking about it. Yeah, but
what about a horse burger. Oh. I would say the
Indians better than a horse burger, But a horseburger with cheese, now,
I don't know, because you can put like some horse
raders cheddar on it. I'm pretty sure that's not where's

(01:51:33):
the horse sound effect? I said horse rads cheddar and
you did nothing alex it. We've got to go find
that guy with the cart. Yeah, Peter doesn't like that. Uh.
The Indian this is what's in death grip. Indians are
better than waiting for a router to restart that is tough,

(01:51:57):
hot to close with horses on him because cool, Hello,
we gotta wait. The Indians are better than Sergio dip Wow,
it's a callback dimp deep. Yeah, it's been a while.
I don't think he was able to capitalize as well
as it seemed like he could. Zach says the Indians
are better than Phantom Menace also known as the Geno

(01:52:18):
Smith of Star Wars movies. What if we did that
Star Wars movies as Jets quarterbacks? Like it? All? Right?
Lele rogue one would have to be Joe Namath because
that was the best one, and then boy Pennington would
have to be Empire strikes back. Wow, going right to

(01:52:40):
Chad Pennington. Boy, that's that's you start going from. Hey,
that's where the millennium falcon wouldn't move more than twenty
yards at a time. Right, Yes, it was a short
flying philosophy, but it was accurate falcon. It got where
it had to go to. It just took a while. Loaf. Uh,

(01:53:01):
the Indians are better than millennial? Well, might be something
to that. Not a sliding right there? Not twitter At?
How about a fresco? Twitter At? How about a fresca?
The Indians things, the Indian games sweeping the nation are Ryan.

(01:53:25):
The Indians are better than the Patriots defense. Well, yeah
they are, Yeah they are, especially after the Jets beat
him thirty eight seven on Sunday, Elijah McGuire a hundred
and fifty yards rushing in three touchdowns. Uh. Ernie says
the Indians are better than having defeats sex at Epcot. Wow,

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Why Epcot? Because I said, you know, Epcot was like
the worst place in the world. Yeah, you didn't even
say it was the worst music defeat sex Epcot would
make Capcot a little bit better because Epcot is not
really you can really draw a crowd. Yeah yeah, and Epcot?
Is this an exhibit? Is this a ride? Oh? No,
this is just two people? Oh, because this is more

(01:54:10):
interesting than anything else a ride? Nicely, I mean, is
there a line for this? Because everything else is just
subspaced outing in an industrial park? Because it's Epcot, is
there is there a fast fast for this one? Can
I go up sex in the Big Ball and Epcot?
Can I do that? There's no sex coming up next

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the Play of the Night and maybe we'll get in
Fred Merkel and Merkel's booner on More Time, Tip Tip, whoa,
what are you doing? It's next? On Fox? I called
that final pitch of strike. I called it a strike good.
I didn't run down to first base. I went back

(01:54:51):
to the dugout good Fox Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show,
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car insurance. Why do you do the thing with your
lips on video? That's what he does at the end

(01:55:11):
of Silence of the Lambs he does he's putting his
lipstick on. I mean, I know we're working too spanned
our horizons here in our universe so people can get
a glimpse at the domination here in the Geico Fox
Sports Radio studios. But right now nobody's looking at you
rubbing your lips. I'd give up with two games and
un lead and choke away the a lbs. I still

(01:55:33):
get surprised. I still get surprised when we hear this
song every night at this time. And yeah, but and
then about point four seconds later, you're up and dancing
and rubbing your lips. Because I gotta get into the moment.
I can't just do, you know, I gotta get a
method acting going on doing at the end of silence, amazing,

(01:55:56):
h we have a dual play of the night. But
before you get to the at there has been no
ask Walt tonight. My dad did not call in, and
we're all gonna do asked Wal. My dad is the
biggest Yankee fan I know. He a lot of people,
But no, my dad was out and I we couldn't

(01:56:16):
be on the air. He had had too much to drink,
so we couldn't put him on the air. My dad
was out celebrating. We got guys on. I I you know. No,
here's the thing. Not that my dad would have cursed
or anything. It would have said something bad, but he
would have It would have taken him so long to
answer a question. Ahead, go ahead and ask a question.
To tell you how my dad would have answer you.
Ask me any question. Uh, Gary Sanchez and the drop

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third strike? Uh, you know that it was seventy five.
Munson did it in a game? Was it the White
Sox or the Royals? Munds It happened, Thurman Munson had happened.
And when he did it, I remember thinking he can't

(01:57:06):
run to first base? When that that would have been
my dad, I mean that it was. We would not
have wanted him on. We would have gonged him to
get him off the air. So trust me, it's better
than we get him tomorrow night, after he's had a
night away from celebrating, and then put him on. He
will not be coming on tomorrow night. You can't. You
can't your dad. You can't. You can't ban my dad.
He has six more minutes. You're banning my dad. You

(01:57:27):
know what if you banned my dad, I'm gonna I'm
gonna kneel for the rest of the show and you'll
be fired, and I'll ban your dad and I'll bang
your dead too tight your dead door. You ban all
your dads from the show, I can't go on. And
then I'll kneel, And now they're banging each other. Uh.

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Dual play of the night brought to you by Geico. First,
the at bat that was a phenomenal moment of baseball theater.
The Yankees up three two in the ninth inning, two outs,
full count, runners at first and second, and this is
Brett Gardner fouling off pitch after pitch after pitch until

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swing on in line as a base set to right
field picks round third. He scores, Frasier goes to third,
hit his haircuts, Fraser bull gets the way in the infield,
the throw home is not in time, Fraser scars and
another Cleveland era Gardner goes to second, and the Yankees
have just taken an enormous step forward to winning the

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Division Series and facing Houston in the American League Championship Series.
Another era, like another era by the Indians, another era.
J Bruce lollypops the ball back into when Dorc when
Door gets the in between hop it bounces over his glove.
Fraser comes around to score. Suddenly three two turns into

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five two, and the game was effectively over at that point.
Still as big a play as that was the biggest
play of the game, without a doubt, Robertson coming in
when the Indians had the momentum. They take a three
nothing lead in the fifth inning, they cut it to
three two and Lindoor bounces into a double play. Robertson
gets out of the inning and the Indians never really

(01:59:13):
threatened again. That was the biggest moment of the game.
Absolutely huge moments throughout this game. Jay Bruce had been
a hero, and you've been lamenting that he wasn't a
man any longer, at least for a moment. But the
the Robertson appearance giving you two in two thirds innings
of work, spotless once again, and and making the big pitch.
So C. C. Sabathia your starter, the ageless, timeless wonder

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and the Yankees, even though they got nothing nothing in
this series from Aaron Judge advanced to take on the Astros.
It was one step closer to what you want it
all on the I'm rooting for the Dodgers and the Yankees.
That's what I want. I want it, which means we're
gonna get the Astros and and the Nationals. So you're
rooting for a sweep basically Dodgers Yankees. Oh I want

(02:00:01):
the doctor. Well, Judge would strike out thirty seven times,
he would. He would just walk up to plate and
just nod and go, I'm not gonna make the pictures.
Just give me the sombrero. Just get along away. But
it's only a tie for the play of the night
because when the final out happens and has as much
drama surrounding it as this did, it gets to be

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the co play of the night. Popping in strike three,
call the ball games over and the Cleveland Indians season
comes to a bitter end. Jackson questioning the call by
Jeff Nelson, but it's a moot point. The Indians, who
are up two games to none, have fallen to the
New York Yankees. As the Yankees sweep the final three

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games and eliminate the Indians here in Cleveland tonight by
a final score of five to two. Indians Radio Network
on the call, and there had to be a scenario
where Austin Jack and I want to hear from him
after the game because there's a lot of controversy. We've
talked about this a lot. Sanchez dropped the third strike,

(02:01:06):
When could he have run to first base just because
the Yankees were celebrating. He hadn't left the circle, he
hadn't left the batter's box. He could have run down
to first base and the inning would have kept going,
and maybe they could have all run around the bait.
Him and Santana could have run all around the bases.
Because Sanchez in the middle of things, he's got the
ball in his pocket. Who knows if that's the real

(02:01:26):
ball from the game, it would have been, like I said,
it would have been a Merkles Boner moment a hundred
years later. It would have been something that we would
have talked about for years. A play like that, if
they're running around the base suddenly by the time everything
gets settled, the Indians got second and third, and Chapman
would have completely melted down at that point after going
from striking out. The guy had to mound visits when

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there were two outs and one on in the ninth
protecting a three nothing lead, he would have melted down well.
And that was the interesting thing about the call, right
when when Sanchez popped up and you know, the ball
falls to the round and he goes to sweep it up.
From where we're sitting here in the Geico studios, look
like it was another mound visit, that he was crossed up,

(02:02:07):
that something was wrong, and instead you see the umpire
make the outside and Jackson's confused. We're all confused and
in the moment saying why is he standing there? Why
is there a bat still in his hands? Twitter At,
how about a fresca? Twitter At? How about a fresca
for Mike Carman. I'm Jason Smith coming up next, my
buddy Ben Mallock.

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