October 24, 2023 • 45 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to the Texas Rangers eliminating the Houston Astros to advance to the World Series. Jason warns everyone that the "Brock Purdy is overrated" hot takes are on the way. MLB Network Insider Jon Paul Morosi joins the guys live from Philadelphia to react to the Rangers win, preview Game 7 of the NLCS, and react live to the report that Dusty Baker may have managed his final game. Plus, the guys react to the Vikings win on Monday night.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
So all of these astros players of the seventies and eighties,
were they enough for a late last gasp ninth inning rally? Well,
we have breaking news. Come into our Fox Sports Radio
news room. Alex Tischer clearly from Fox Sports working on
his Spotify account. Because whatever that music was, I don't know,
it was still yeah, that's a good song.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
It was still dancing. Now you can actually dance.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Smiths, go ahead, we have a final in Houston. Steve Desager,
what's going on? Your answers?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It enough? No back to you. Thanks. Gave Texas Rangers
the best color guy in the business for nothing. Wait
to go money.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Texas Rangers are going to the World Series. They win
at Houston in Game seven of the ALCS eleven to four.
The Texas Rangers franchise had not even been to the
playoffs until the mid nineties. They never won a playoff
series until twenty ten. Remember they had the runs to
the World Series twenty ten, lost it, twenty eleven, lost
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a Game seven to David Freese and the Cardinals. Now,
until this year, they had not won a playoff series
since twenty eleven. Now they're back in What a turnaround
because this was, frankly a very bad team back to
back years these last couple of seasons. Bruce Bochi as manager.
They're into the World Series. It starts on Fox TV
Friday night. We don't know the opponent yet because the
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NLCS has a Game seven in Philadelphia tomorrow. Phillies franchise
has never played a Game seven. Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Bruce Bochie is now going to the World Series where
he could win his fourth World Series.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Fourth Yeah right.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Remember yet the every other year thing with the Giants
in the in the uh, the teens, you would say, right,
the teams we had the odds in of the team
said the three, the three every other year in the
teams and now again, when he was just kind of
sitting around, the Rangers said come and manage. And look,
we talk about the impact that a manager has on
a team, and sometimes you need a manager that is
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fire and brimstone, and you need analytics, and you need
you have to find a new way, a new approach
at the plate. We need all of these different things,
and sometimes you need a guy that just knows, Hey,
how do I get my guys into the best frame
of mind? How do I get my guys at the
point where they're the best versions of themselves they can be?
And you hear about the calming influence, right, the calming
influence of Art House, the calming influence of Bruce Boci,
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And that's really what it was. You have a lot
of talented players on the Rangers. They've had a talented
roster for a while. And you know, we made fun
about how it's easy to hate the rank we can
hate any team, but that she can bringing in talent
all the time. And look, you got it right with
Corey Seger. You know, the Dodgers made a gamble that Okay,
we're gonna have Seger and we're gonna have Trey Turner,
and we know that we're probably gonna let see or
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group we feel we can fill his position with Trey Turner. Now,
Trey Turner left. Now the Dodgers are stuck, but they
made the right calls and this is a Texas team
that is into the World Series. Just think about this
for a second, right, we talk about Bochie being the
right influence, and you can't misstated enough because they're two
big acquisitions that they've gotten from the Mets haven't really
given them anything. Right, Jacob de gram is done. He's
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been out all this year and maybe he pitches a
little bit at the end of next year. I read
yesterday that he's hoping for August or September to get cleared,
to be able hoping. You're talking about him missing a
long time and they got nothing from him, and you
get nothing basically from Scherzer, who is now a guy
that if you get two and a third innings from him,
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that's what you get.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Well, but we do know this he thirty nine home
runs hit in the regular season was no fluke whatsoever.
Because we've watched Garcia run wild like Hulkamania in the
mid eighties. If we want to throw back to historical
references like we were doing our little know your astros
game through the last couple of minutes, but the Seeger
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edition man seventy five extra base hits, ninety six RBI
and the robust three twenty seven batting average. You know,
it goes back to with the expansion of playoffs in
all sports, hang around, give yourself a puncher's chance, and
go in and just be playing some good ball down
the stretch. And they took that, and now they've rolled
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in and we're looking at the World Series and now
they await their opponent. I mean, it's an impressive run
you took out when you were doing your hate watching
thing a little bit earlier. You know, Bruce Bochi's sitting around.
It's like, well, it's not his fault that so many
other teams were dumb or were pot committed to they
brought in for analytics purposes or didn't want to spend
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the cash on a proven commodity. Right, you know, you
can still go old school, and that's one of the
things that we've watched with baseball. Sometimes the old you know,
eye an experience still matters over a couple of spreadsheets,
and I think that's what you saw here if.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Looking ahead, right, you see the Rangers now into the
World Series where they'll face either the Diamondbacks or the Phillies,
and you watch them take control of this series, lose
control of this series, and then get it back.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
This, this Rangers team, honestly, in this round proved how
good they were because up until now it had been boy,
they were really good all year. But then when the
pressure came to it, they folded. Right, They win as
a wild card, they couldn't win enough games, and the
Astros goin as the division winners. Okay, hey, they win
the first two games of the series. Wow, they have everything,
everything on control. No, then they give back the next
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three in their home ballpark. Right, we saw the home
team lose every single game in the series. Being able
to come back from that. I mean, that is one of.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
The more.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
That that is one of the more. I want to
say unexpected. But I didn't believe down three to two,
the letting the Astros back in, with the Asterers having
all momentum coming into these last two games, I didn't
give them a chance at this. I didn't give them
a chance of winning two games. They're gonna come and
win two games here in Houston, who has won the
World Series and they won it, and they and they've
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won a couple of World Series. They won it last year,
and it's a lot of the same players from last year.
And now they got back in and they're hot again,
and suddenly they come back home and the Rangers are
able to jump on top of them and get the
better of the pitching matchup, and they just mash.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I can't tell you.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I mean, really, I doubted them all the way until
this comeback right here tells me how dangerous they really are.
Because I thought, going they get into the World Series,
the Phillies are gonna roll over them. The Philly are
gonna have the pitching advantages and they're gonna roll over them.
But you see a team that's really hot. And my
only fear for the Rangers now is they're hitting. We'll
get a little bit of a bounce going into the
World Series. Are you gonna hit like this in the
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World Series? Probably not. And you know, our Garcia will
probably cool off. Your bats might cool off a little bit.
But I'll tell you that's the only fear I have
right now, is they'll get a little bit of a
bounce because right, because right now, going into the World Series, yeah,
I feel like they can mash the Phillies pitching because
I still expect the Phillies to win tomorrow night. But
I think that becomes one of your great series. Let's
see who can outslug the other. Right, if that's the
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matchup we ultimately get, right, you get the long hairs
as you call them.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Or maybe I'm just.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Taking your words, the long hairs, the yellers and the
screamers and the bandana ware is yes, that's.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
The Philadelpia, those guys against the Rangers waiting for him
on the other side. And to your point, right, Valdez
has been bad so game six. He's not had his
stuff the last couple of times out so thinking you
can get after him, great, But Christian Javier has been
nails in the postseason time and again. Right, we're talking
about starts and we're counting hits. We're not talking earn runs.
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We're not getting home runs allowed.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Like we did with Lancelaye. We're not doing any of that.
We're just talking.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
He's been virtually unhittable and here he gets one out
before he is chased from this game. Four hits allowed,
three on runs, twenty three pitches and he is gone.
Before you blinked. You might not have found the game
on the radio, and he was already the.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Channel is this game on? I'm trying to find Okay, great,
all right, got it, But.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Legitimately, if you're flipping around trying to find your local
station that was carrying it, you might have missed it.
Because he had a couple of batters and he was
off to the races, so he got some good work
from the pen. But then Franco gets beaten up in
his two thirds or francis sorry, and it is the
two thirds innings pitch, he gets beaten up pretty heftily,
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and all of a sudden it's an insurmountable deficit for
the Astros. But even in the ninth inning when you
were answering to hey, yah and Aljuve comes up and
hits a home run, you get a couple of runners
on bezels that it's like the eyebrows up going. They
can't do this, can they?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
They can't.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I mean, it's the Astros. It's at home, it's at
the juice box. Opportunity was knocking, but then they slammed
the door and just really quick before you get to
Steve di Seger for what's trending. So the fans had left,
like they were gone, oh yeah, have a thinning of
this game, and it was embarrassing. Oh ye behind like people,
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I mean, there was no the entire section was gone.
There was a couple people in the corner. It looked
like a like an early season April game where hey,
it's it's uh ten forty five at night and it's
it's it's it's thirteen degrees and there's nobody there. So
there's nobody in there and it's embarrassing. And then suddenly
for the ninth inning, a whole bunch of fans were
standing in those seats cheering for the Astros.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's almost I almost feel like the Astros saw that
and said, oh, you know what, this is embarrassing for us,
but with no fans behind there, Hey grab some fans
that'll stand up and cheer and put them behind home plate.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Because they were all standing and going, yeah, well they did.
I mean, first like tourists.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I think the first part of it was they realized
they were on the billboard in Times Square, so they
raised their hand in victory. And then they recognized, Wait
a minute, we're down seven runs even after the L
two v home run.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Hey, you guys want to come to sit behind home plate? Really? Yeah?
But just cheer? Yeah, sure, they I sat behind.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Don't played in a game seven of an ALCS They
had like.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
A bunch of people that didn't know each other, Like really,
they were just off a tourism bus.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Hey, what are we over here? Seed fillers?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Now this is where they shot that big scene in
a endgame where they killed Thanos And then we're getting
on the bus now, and hey, we're gonna get to
a real life Major League baseball game. Just go right
behind home plate and you're gonna be on television.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Gret, you were starting to make that sound like the
Kramer reality too.
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Speaker 1 (11:02):
Some blowout and blow back from Monday Night Football that
was shockingly won by the Vikings. Now forget about trading
Kirk Cousins. They're three and four now. They beat the
forty nine Ers twenty two seventeen in a game that
it surprised me. The final score surprises you if you
watch the game, because the Vikings clearly had the better
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part of the play throughout against the forty nine ers.
And I'm ready to tell you, I'll tell you exactly
what the big hot take on the radio and on
TV is going.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
To be tomorrow. I got it down.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I guarantee it. I'm gonna guarantee you this. This is
what it's gonna be because so far throughout his career,
now with every week going by, just like it happened
for Mac Jones, every analyst slash former player who wants
clicks couldn't wait to say the most ridiculous things about
Mac Jones. He's doing stuff better than Tom Brady. He's
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doing all. Now, finally you have somebody who, hey, wait
a minute, boy, brock Purty is really doing maybe some
Tom Brady thing. Look he's great, brock Purty. Look at this,
mister irrelevant. And now they're undefeated. His record is twenty
one and three. Brock Purdy is great. Right, And we've
told you the real the truth about brock Purty is
was he underdrafted?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I could just see the guy doing good things. Is
he gonna win passing titles? Is he Joe Montana? Does
he make plays to win games? Tell me one game
where he's made a huge, huge play, drive down the
field and thrown a touchdown. He's good because he's a
good He's a good quarterback on a team around him
that is really talented. But and that's okay, right, there's
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a lot of quarterbacks in NFL history that have carried
that mantle. He's not Tom Brady that have failed with
those opportunities. He's not Brady. He's not Aaron Rodgers. He's
not one of the next great quarterbacks in the NFL.
He is a guy that fits what they're doing right now,
and he's playing very well. But I guarantee you the
hot because you can't just say, oh, that's the realistic thing.
The hot take tomorrow is gonna be Hey, two bad
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games in a row. Quarterback rating was terrible. Two touchdowns,
three picks, two losses. Brock Party is overrated and the
league has figured him out. They've had enough tape on him.
Now over the last year plus, you had the you
had most of last year. Now you had their tendencies
this year through five games. Now brock Purty's gotten figured out.
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They figured them out, and now things are gonna be
more difficult and the forty nine ers are gonna have
to find out a new way. I can see it.
I can see it all day tomorrow. Brock Purty is
overrated and the league has figured him out because it
can't just be hey, brock party, you really overvalued and
talked to over hyped him. He's a good quarterback and
you can win a super Bowl with him. Nothing's changed,
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nothing's changed except now you because it's got to be
he's either the best or the worst, and now he's
gonna be he's overrated and the league is figured out.
Those will be phrases you hear word for word out
of people's mouth. That's the headline that Bursch is gonna tell.
It's gonna the story, guarantee it because then people are
and then they'll start listening and be like, oh, they
weren't common rational, how dare they guarantee?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Seventeen points back to back weeks. We saw it against
the Browns, and then well the Colts went and did
what they did with Minshu mania against the Browns. So
everybody's like, well, wait a minute, now we all know
the record of teams historically after they play the forty
nine ers the last.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Couple of years, they don't win games.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
And usually they're coming in battered, bruised, beaten, with a
bunch of backups. I got enough Bees, the killer Bees
mixed there, and but you know they survived that game.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Fine.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
But you look at this game tonight. To your point,
the Vikings moved the ball down the field Hockinson and Addison.
Addison did whatever he wanted, a couple of throws to
kJ Osborne, showing some love to our fantasy loving cohort
here at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But you know they don't have much.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Of a run game, and you know what, that's fine.
They were able to pass the ball and they were
good in their past blogging. To give Kirk Cousins time.
On the other side for the offense, you had McCaffrey
because that's gonna be the big thing. Christian McCaffrey was
available now Trent Williams and Deebo, Samuel Warren and look,
we're at the point in the NFL season where we
could do the laundry list of guys who are limited
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in terms of snapcounts or can't play at all. That's
certainly the case for brock Perty. He made two terrible
throws onet he tried to push the ball downfield into
what was essentially triple coverage, trying to thread the needle.
If he watched enough highlights from Sunday, he would have
seen enough evidence that that could work. So maybe he
tried it while on the run, coming up in the pocket.
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Maybe he should have tucked the ball and run again.
That's a whole other thing with time inside the final minute.
But yes, people are immediately gonna eviscerate him, getting gonna
ask all the questions like McDaniel got on to it
last week.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
It's just system guy, right, he's a purty is a
really good game manager. He's a really good game manager, and.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
That's what he is. But watch tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
He's overrated and the league is figured that's gonna be
the big one. The league is figuring him.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Out the fastest anybody's gone from on for that unrated
to overrated and now obliterated.
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Speaker 2 (17:10):
So.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
The Rangers are in the World Series as MLB Network
inside of John Palm Rosi. They're in the World Series
for the first time in forty two hundred days. The
Rangers knocking out the Astros doing many Baseball fans of favor.
All the Astros are out.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Ah, I feel so aw. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
This is one where I think it's like when the
Patriots are officially eliminated yeah. Now, all of a sudden,
like they rose up like it is Halloween. There's a
hand coming out of a grave because they win.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Suddenly it's evil dead.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Well yeah, but I mean they beat the Bills yesterday
at Holmes, Like eh, I think some of that was
Belichick showing out when Rabel was talking about we in
all that celebration pregame. Wait a minute, you're not taking
my job. But yeah, the Astros losing. Outside of the
actual Astros fans and mattress Mac, I don't think anybody cares.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I'm you know, I major League Baseball. I think every
average MLB fan is glad they're out.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
No, I mean like nobody's lamenting the Well.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You said don't care. I mean I think people care.
They want them to be It's like they want the
Yankees to be out. Except here's the difference, right the Yankees.
People want the Yankees out. I can't stand the evil empire.
They win, But when they're out, you're missing something, right,
because you're missing the big deal. But for the different right,
But the ass the Askers are such a villain from
the cheating scandal that people just don't want to see them.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
It's different.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
It's not like people are saying, oh man, the Astros
aren't in the World Series. I'm gonna miss No, No
one's gonna miss them in the World Series. The Astros
are out.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
They're out. We got rid of them. It's like, Okay,
that's kind of that's the difference, is it?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
But isn't there's something better about them losing on the
biggest stage. But I guess if they get to the
biggest stage, you're saying there's a chance they can still
win it.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I don't want to risk that, So this way we
don't just getting they go home.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
No risk it, no biscuit, a phrase that our next
guest knows all too well. He is in Philadelphia as
he anticipates Game seven of the NLCS, working the field,
working as Magic, growing a beard like Bryce Harper and
all the other Phillies playing long hair. He is MLB
Network insider extraordinaire and guest Lions Picker. Here on the show,
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John Paul Morosi, the Pope JP. What's happening, buddy?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
How are you good?
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Even to my friends, I'm outstanding. I really was fearful
lost that second part of my job description on this
radio program, because I believe that My prediction of a
comfortable Lions win from Sunday was just barely not true. Yeah,
I just want a point or two.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
You have it. Here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
You set expectations and they failed to achieve them. It's
not your fault.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
No, right, the game plan. The game plan was solid.
Like I love the exchange between Marcus Freeman and the
member of them.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
That was good.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Yeah, coaching Marcus Freeman's son, that was great. I'm a
big fan of coach Freeman, very very classy man.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So and you're fine because now you're five and two
on your on your Lions picks this yue, so you
get to pick again this week.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
So okay, we.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Have above five hundred.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Yeah, but guess what. Guess what in the series. And
this is what we call a transition here in the
in the industry. In the series that I'm covering, no
one is above five hundred. Because it is three and
three and we're about to find out tomorrow which National
League entry will be visiting the Texas Rangers in Arlington
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on Friday for Game one of the World Series.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
All right, well, let's start with the Rangers here before
we get into your series in the NLCS. It looked
like the Rangers were gonna walk away with it. Then
it looked like the Astros are gonna win it, and
the Rangers come out and when the last two games,
nobody wins a home game in this series, JP, how
can you make sense of the al yes going into
the World Series?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
It seems impossible.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
It does, except for I'll say two things. Pitching was
at times impressive on each side, at at times very inconsistent.
There was no real rhythm to this series with the
struggles of the starting pitching, So I would say out
of rhythm with respect to the starting pitching, in rhythm
with respect to the bat of one Atto lis Garcia,
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who was just unbelievable at this stage. He does remind
me in some respects of the meteoric rise of his
very close friend Randy a Rose Arena a few years ago,
where it just looks like there's going to be big damage,
or in the case of the issue with Brian and Brady,
you big controversy. When he's in to play. He's just
someone that you cannot take your eyes off on the
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field and listen. The Rangers acquired him as Jeff Passing
reminded us all this evening on. They acquired him via
a cash transaction in the final days of December and
twenty nineteen. It was one of those deals that is
noted in small agate type in the newspaper and might
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get two sentences in the sports briefs, but was not
at all a big deal. And the player acquired by
that method is the one who was the ALCS MVP
and is out shining all the guys that signed three
hundred million dollar contracts. It is just remarkable and is
why I love the game so much.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
We talk about the EBB and flow of things. The
Imbrallo suspension moved to next year. To me, JP is
just asenine, But watching him come in and then immediately
plunk a batter was part two of that. But go
back to Garcia for a moment, when you have runners
on second and third, you decide to pitch with him,
pitched him instead of putting him on first base. That
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one still doesn't make any sense. It doesn't register. Down
six to two, I.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Would agree with that, and I think two it's going
to be a difficult season for the Astros. I don't
know what they're going to do with some of their
key moves. Key personnel. Kyle Tucker is coming up on
the point where he needs to get an extension. Notably,
Dusty Baker does not have a contract for next year either,
So there's a lot of uncertainty right now. How does
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burl Ander age one more year on? They count on
the Colors next year? Does Brandley come back? There's a
lot of questions there, and ultimately those questions get a
lot more pressing when you don't win at all, and
I think that's where they're at right now. They had
a great team, I thought overall a great season, But
for a team that has made this their standard to
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fall short of it, I think prompts a lot of questions. Yes,
in game management for sure, but to the larger extent,
I do think this organization is arriving at an inflection point.
The first full off season for their GM Dana Brown,
so change could be coming to Houston Wild Texas there
in state rivals. They are on to the World Series.
Young Evan Carter. What a story he's become. It's their
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first World Series games to the Rangers of more than
four thousand days, going back to the fall of twenty eleven.
In that classic World Series against the Saint Louis Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
John Paul Morose the MLB Network Insider with us The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from Thetirack dot
Com studios. All Right, well, JP, we actually got to
hit you with a little bit of breaking news here.
I know where it's coming at you for your first reaction,
but we've gotten reports from the Athletic and other sources
that Dusty Baker has expressed to multiple inside and outside
the Astros organization that this was his final season as
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manager and he is going to walk away again. The
Athletic has this report just a couple of minutes ago,
Dusty Baker expressing to multiple inside and outside the Astros
organization that this year was his final season as manager.
Obviously that would be one big change, and I know
it's too early to say who they might get for
next year, but just this ride for Dusty Baker and
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never getting a game seven, it looks he's able to
win one.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Hey, you know we're gonna miss Dusty.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Even people that still don't like the Astros because of
the scandal, it's hard to not like Dusty Baker, and
you know baseball is going to miss him.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
When he goes, they will, and I think that we
have realized that this was going to happen at some point,
And again to your point, it's preliminary reporting, but it's
obviously been well thought out by our colleagues at the Athletics.
For the reporting they've done there, both channed the Roman Bridgieroli.
So I think with Dusty, I've got an amazing amount
of respect for him. He took that job when very
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few people would have and when you think about what
Dusty's been able to achieve in his career, all he
did since taking that job was make the Alcs every
single year and he made the World Series twice, one
at once, which he really wanted to do obviously for
his career. And maybe he just knows that it's time,
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and if he does, he is going to, to your point,
walk away in a fashion that made him beloved with
that organization and beyond, and really, to your point, was
probably the best ambassador that that organization could have ever
hoped to have as they went through the tumultuous return
following the revelation of the science dealing scandal. He's just
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an amazing person and someone who I've learned a lot
from over time. Always have enjoyed my conversations with him.
He's a treasure in the game, and I hope he's
still around it. I hope he Tobie stays, but if
this is it, then I certainly thank him for all
the impacts that he's made in a lot of different
people in the game, myself included.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
One heck of a run, no question about it.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
So Game seven tomorrow, Arizona, Philadelphia getting after it. A
couple of youngsters on the hill get in price around
two under and fifty bucks JP. People excited for Game
seven there in Philly.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
I can't wait. It's gonna be a lot of fun tomorrow.
Brandon Fought, as you mentioned, goes for the Diamondbacks, Ranger
Suarez going for the hometown Philadelphia Phillies. And at this
point I'll say that I'm out of predictions for this
series and it's impossible to have a feel. Yeah, I
think the one thing is that you know that you
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go back to game sevens, whether it's tonight or others.
I think managers often will be very aggressive in terms
of using their bullpen. You almost don't let your starting
pitcher lose the game, where if he doesn't have it,
you are making that move immediately. And by the way,
Bruce Bochi of course did that himself a little bit tonight,
but he did it in Game seven of the World
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Series back in twenty fourteen. Tim Hudson did He even
finished the second inning. So the starters, yes, Brandon Fott
and Rangers Suarez, but that could very easily change as
the day goes along, where you probably are going to
your bullpen a little bit early. I do think this
is gonna be Bryce Harper's first ever game seven. Think
about that in his career, the first ever game seven
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in the history of the Philadelphia Phillies. Think about that.
This organization has been around for well over one hundred years.
They've never played a game se so it's just it's
a really rich time and from the history of the
game to think about what's going to happen here. The
Phillies have been the favorite team, they're the deeper team,
they're the more star studded team, but they have not
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been able to put away the Diamondbacks because of a
combination of the Phillies bullpen struggles and the Diamondbacks resiliency
and opportunistic play. This is the first game today in
which they actually scored first, so they've had to come
back and win twice. They won today. Really, they were
in control from the very beginning. Merril Kelly basically pitched
around Schwarber early and then found a way to attack
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them late. It's a really really interesting matchup, and I
think in a lot of ways, guys, all the pressure
right now is on the Philadelphia Phillies. There. They're the
team that entered as the favorites. They've got to try
to find a way to win on home field. They've
got to get Bryce Starper, who's first hope, potentially for
him his first Militaries title. There's a lot on the line.
Whereas the d Backs young, largely unproven, they are playing
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with house money. My friends, it can be a lot
of fun to watch tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
All right. Lastly, JP, you can't get out of here.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
That is, I want to let you know I've electronically
gone in and stolen all the money you and your
family have, so your kids might not be able to
go to college because I'm gonna take your money and
I'm gonna go to Vegas. And who am I betting
on for Tomorrow night? The Phillies or the Diamondbacks. Remember
all the money.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yeah, your money's gone, but you have to place the bet.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You might now, I give it back to you if
I win. If not, well then we're all out of luck.
But who am I betting on.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
I don't know. I'm way I'm wow. I'm way too
close to this one to give you any sort of
a rational. I can't. I can't do that. What I
do know. I thought the last question was gonna be
something along the lines of if I was ready to
step back in and resume my wing team play calling
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duty leaguered Michigan football team after all these revelations. Wow,
I gotta figure out my gosh, that's the whole other.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Uh well, I thought I thought you were the guy
with the cell phone in the stand JP.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I thought that was you were in the Michigan sweatshirt.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
There is I mean, I've got so many questions about this.
I've got so many questions. I just I don't know
why this whole thing was created. I don't know why
the heck they felt they need to do this, or
how they thought they'd get away with it. I mean,
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this is the whole thing is mind boggling and and
and let me just remind everybody, this is just the
public service announcement from me. Okay, just remember this if
you are the employee of a public university, remember that
emails by public employees are able to be obtained through FOYA.
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Like it's all it's all there, guys, So like, whatever
the heck you say, it's in there. It's in the
public domain. It's just it is remarkable the things that
happen there, guys, it really is. But anyways, it's just
one little from one one person, because wanted to make
that point.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
He's on Twitter on John Morosi, that is at John
MOROSIMAB Network Insider morning show host on Sternsy and the Bear.
Check him out tomorrow morning. He'll make all kinds of
predictions on there now, uh, instead of the pope?
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Did I say the bear really?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Stern or Sterns and the bear the bear in the Pope.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I don't know. I don't know why I said the.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Bear the lions. The Lions play the bears on, thank you.
I don't think I'm responsible to know anything about the
bears until then.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
All right, all ry tyson Bage, it will be there
and to thwart you, I'm.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Studying the I think they're playing the the Lions are
playing the Raiders. Who I believe. Someone told me that
the Raiders don't play at the LA Coliseum anymore. Do
you guys hear about this?
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Well, they don't, nor did they play when they visited
Chicago yesterday.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
They play in San Diego. Now it's a weird. It's
a weird thing.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Playing, Sandy. I heard that there was a team in
San Diego that laughed, but then one of them came
in so that they play in San Diego. Okay, very good, off,
I'll check into the San Diego Raiders.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Got it all right?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Well, we'll talk to you JP tomorrow night after Game
seven of the NLCS again your official Lions pick.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
So we'll get that.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Can't wait, guys, looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
We'll talk to you.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
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The Rangers are in the World Series. The Astros are
going home. We'll love more on that coming up in
a little bit. I have to look at the potential
end of the Astros dynasty. Dusty Baker looks like he's
walking away.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Free agency to look at a lot of change.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Buck Showalter can go manage the Astros. Now, you're good.
I don't know another x Met that can go on
to great now, sure, why not?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
We sent all the x Mets to Texas. You're all
going You're all gonna be in the Greater State of Texas.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Well, they go to a place where there's no income
tax after being taxed at an exorbitant rate in New
York and New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
So no tax, No, you're not lying to me. No tax. No,
there's no tax. I need to keep no tax.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I get to keep ten percent. There's no tax, No,
no tax, no tax. You're sure I'm not gonna sign
and find out it's extra tax, no, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Right then I'll come there.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Uh, but Monday Night Football a shocker the way the
Vikings dominated the forty nine Ers with the vast majority
of this game. The Vikings came out and they were
aggressive from the get go. They were throwing the ball downfield.
They were trying everything they could to put pressure on
this forty nine er defense. And let's be honest, it worked.
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Kirk Cousins three hundred yards passing through three quarters first
got to do that against the forty nine ers since
Josh three and a half years ago. All right, this
was a great strategy. This was not Hey, let's see
what we can do, let's try to run. They decided
we are coming out throwing the football, and it was
a great strategy. Also helped by the fact that the
forty nine ers kept single covering Jordan Addison, which I
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still can't believe they did. After his second touchdown, It's okay,
maybe a little bit of help. Nope, nope, we're gonna
We're gonna let Jordan Addison still get single covered, and
he wound up ruining the forty nine ers with their
game tonight. But this game came down to the end.
The forty nine Ers had the ball, a little bit
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of time left to go, potentially get down the field,
score a touchdown, win the game. The legend of brock
Purty could grow. Except the Vikings pick off their last
gas pass from midfield with about thirty seconds left to go. Now,
why am I telling you how this happened? We're gonna
hear it, of course we are. This is Paul Allen,
friend of the show, Paul Allen. Yeah, mony K Fan
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Vikings Radio Network. This is the final call of the
interception that ended the game.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Uh, you know, I'm gonna be honest. I didn't see
that one coming this time. No matter no matter how
many years.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
And how many times it happens, I still get surprised
by it. Ah, I say, God, I'm getting the buck.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
There's often times where there's been a back and forth
antagonism between maybe you and Frostburg or you and ty Shirt,
where you can see it's probably gonna rear its head
just to see if it can push you over here.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
There was no animis.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Wait till I become like Skynet and learn how to
run that board in there and watch me delete that
crap right out of the system.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Really, wait till I learn how to run that artie
kind of surprised somehow. It hasn't been because we've gone
and tried to go back to the well on certain
cool bits of our ten years here at Fox's from.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Last night, that's not in here? Are you kidding? We
don't have any We don't have any Jalen.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Hurts touchdowns all been knocked out of the system from
last night. I had a good run Jets Eagles, all.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Those highlights are gone. We don't have anything. We don't.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
But just wait, tight shirt. I'll say, hey, guess what,
there's some free seaweed in the kitchen. You're gonna run
in the kitchen and I'm gonna come and delete that
right out.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Of the systems of seaweed.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Seaweed that you eat good seaweed, well kind uh from
the sea.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Yeah, there's kines though.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Like literally, he's gonna go and he's gonna emerge like
the diver dude from Scooby Doo, and he's gonna have
that hanging off him and he's gonna offer to you.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
What beats you go to, uh the zoom of beach. Okay,
I'm in okay, good so. And then when I come
right around the delete.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Delete Now he didn't he didn't say zeema delete. He
said zemzema. You say Huntington. I'm out.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Oh, I'd like like like a malt liquor beverage right
now after watching Jordan Addison beat me in fantasy. All right,
let's hear Paul Allen k fed final call, the interception
that ended the game for the Vikings and gave the
loss to the forty nine.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Aready back to pass Hi when he needs to sack him,
he loops them over the middle.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Stop dead, he asked.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
The Vikings sat the Niners and cam Bynum has a
two interception night and now a fight on pearls on
the field.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
And we're not over exaggerating that there were punches thrown.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
The salurass Niners can go ahead and get out of
town these sour as. I didn't tell you exactly what
he had to say.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
I just like Paul Allen's call was good, these sands
and bringing everybody in the back dude a grade.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Yeah, that's the kind of play by play guy I
would be, because.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
You know, I like the under his breath these someone
got to sack him. Someone's got to sack him. Like,
can you imagine how I would call a Jets game.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
No, I don't even want to think about that.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
That would be by the end of three and a
half hours, you would be sweating profusely.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
It'd be like performance art where you fell to the
ground on the final call.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
If it was if it he was.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
On satellite only where I could say whatever I wanted to,
then I would feel much freer. But I would worry
about my leguage a little bit.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Would you have random things to bite into you like
you were Frank the Tank?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
I just I need even bite on my bite plate
because I'm two nervous right now. I like tark Like
Jerry Tarkanian biting.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
He's gone through seven sandwiches. He just needs to bite
on something. When it gets tense.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Jets come out. I don't like this formation. This is
gonna be a sack. Watch his watch the sack. Watch
the sack. Watch the am.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
I told you he's gonna get sacked. I told you, WHOA.
Now he's doing that thing. He's dancing in front of
our tackle. I mean he might as well have a
number on there for the turnstyle to show you how
many people have come through in this morning's rush hour.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
He lost seven yards oh show Robert Sala going oh yeah, yoh,
whose fault is that, Robert Sala?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
It's your fault second down at seventeen. That's the kind
of play by play I would be just like that.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
I think we should start doing accompanying play by play.
I mean, people do it.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Henour ass forty nine let's hear it. Well, let's hear
his call about the sour ass forty nine ers one
more time.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Birdie back to pass him and he needs to sack
him in the middle. Stop dead.
Speaker 8 (39:05):
Yeah, Vikings fit the Niners and cam Bineum has a
two interception night and now a fight unfurls on the field,
and we're not over exaggerating that there were punches thrown.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
These surass Niners can go ahead and get out of town.
You you can go and get out of town?
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Now?
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Is that a phrase? Sour ass? I like that? But
is that a phrase? Stinks?
Speaker 6 (39:29):
Like?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Can we say that? I didn't even I've never heard it? Like,
is that something that they're gonna come back and go?
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Whoa? You said? Now is after ten o'clock? You're good? Yeah,
but he said, okay, let me look it up and
make sure there's no like hidden meaning. Well, let me
let's see.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Hang on, let me look at cause, I'll find it.
Define it well, it's I looked it up. It's slang
defined dot org.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Okay, hang on, I got it right here. Uh ooh ooh,
don't want to look at Urban Dictionary on that. Uh ooh,
don't want to look there. Oh don't want to look there. Nope, nope, nope,
nope nope. Hang on, yeah, wait nope nope no first
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page all definitions.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
Can't say no, no, We can't tell him no, no, no
two graphic.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
You know, sometimes I feel like like the websites that go, oh,
here's what the real meaning is? The slang dictionary what
it really is? I'm like, you're just making that up
like it's not a rare thing. I'd want to make
up something that's really embarrassing that's about bodily parts or
sex to make it seem like, oh, it's really bad.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Well it's bad or is it just? You know, decide
where you want to draw your line in terms of
your discourse. Now, for us, for FCC compliancy, we can
only go so far. You can say sour ass, but
you can't explain what it is.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Which is a weird play. Sour ass Niners. Come on,
it's a great angry kind of thing. You think, George,
you want to get out of here.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
I think George Kittle was waiting for Paul Allen outside
the booth when he was leaving.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Now the way, talk to you. Where's that sour ass
play by play guy, Paul Allen? Where is he? I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
Paul Allen wants to go shake Ward's hands for his
inability to stay anywhere near Nedison On.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
Now, to be fair, now, didn't he put out a statement.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Didn't Paul Allen say something either on social media or something?
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (41:13):
Yeah, I mean he said he's sorry about the you know,
salty language, but you know so No, no, no, let me
let me let me find the the actual quote there,
because I mean it is pa on the mic. I
want to make sure we give him his uh proper
credit for the apology that he did put out. Let's
see it was, uh sorry for the fall language, but
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stop throwing punches at our players.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Still much respect for the Niners, Still much respect for
the sour ass Niners.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
Just want to just call hey, he calls him as
he sees him, just like he calls horse races and
he calls those vikings games. Yeah, because remember, why do
you even ponder passing?
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Someone needs a second? Someone needs a second? How great
is that? That is pretty good out loud? So I
need to sack him.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
I really, I mean I I honestly I would be
a trendsetter played by because I would be like that,
like the entire game, I'd be. I'm not watching television's
I'm listening to that guy. I'm listening to Jason Smith
because he is. I don't know what he's gonna say
about the Jets on this. I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (42:16):
Well, he's a truth teller. I have no idea because
he calls it as he sees it. There's no filter,
there's no corporate uh structure that you're adhering to in
that moment. If you're really going stream of consciousness, it
is really about the brand and the entity and the
the misery in a lot of cases, for some of
the teams you follow of Jason Smith.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Third and two Jets changing personnel. Why the hell is
Dalvin Cook coming into the game. He staks he's done.
Why does Breesall need to breather now?
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Why?
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Why couldn't you get him a breather on second down
when you were throwing and Dalvin Cook could block out
of the backfield?
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Why is this? See?
Speaker 1 (42:51):
See, this is why I'd be a great head coach,
but no one want to work with me because they
would go, I don't know how to respond to that.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
I don't know what to say. What do you want
me to say?
Speaker 5 (42:59):
One man Booth Now, your guy Breshall caused some problems
earlier today because it was the anniversary of him tearing it.
So he put up on Twitter, found out I tore
my ACL and that's where people stopped reading.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was like a year ago today.
Speaker 5 (43:18):
Look at God man fingers crossed answered all my prayers
and then some with the prayer hands.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
But if you just stopped after the first five.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
I'm going to read you the beginning of Breese Hall's
tweet right now, let me watch your facial rere what
holy cow?
Speaker 5 (43:35):
But yeah that got Let's see at last count, it's
been seen by two point nine million people. It's been
hearted some fourteen point five thousand.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
That's something that you could start with a year ago today.
You start with that, know, just the way Yeah, a
year ago today, I tore my ACE sentence structure.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
Man, that's all a sense.
Speaker 5 (43:56):
So you need a copy editor there to help you
out because it caused a lot of people unnecessary anks.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Can you imagine if something happened he actually sent it
before he finished found out a year found out? I
tore my ACL. Oh crap, I had said, hang on,
let me just write a new one.
Speaker 5 (44:10):
Why did he delete Eddie Georges ACL?
Speaker 3 (44:15):
What happened? Where did this happen? Was he carrying deer
meat upstairs? What happened? You know you default to that
carrying deer meat. I haven't used that in a while. No,
you know, you just use that like the other deer
you did. No, you used it, used the deer meat
thing just the other day.
Speaker 5 (44:32):
We just spent a lot of time in the studios
yelling at I feel like you just said that we're
like the old guys at the Muppets. At the end,
I think you just said that. I said that five years.
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Speaker 3 (45:01):
Sour ass Niners need to get out of town.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
So all of these astros players of the seventies and eighties,
were they enough for a late last gasp ninth inning rally? Well,
we have breaking news. Come into our Fox Sports Radio
news room. Alex Tischer clearly from Fox Sports working on
his Spotify account. Because whatever that music was, I don't know,
it was still yeah, that's a good song.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
It was still dancing. Now you can actually dance.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Smiths, go ahead, we have a final in Houston. Steve Desager,
what's going on? Your answers?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It enough? No back to you. Thanks. Gave Texas Rangers
the best color guy in the business for nothing. Wait
to go money.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Texas Rangers are going to the World Series. They win
at Houston in Game seven of the ALCS eleven to four.
The Texas Rangers franchise had not even been to the
playoffs until the mid nineties. They never won a playoff
series until twenty ten. Remember they had the runs to
the World Series twenty ten, lost it, twenty eleven, lost
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a Game seven to David Freese and the Cardinals. Now,
until this year, they had not won a playoff series
since twenty eleven. Now they're back in What a turnaround
because this was, frankly a very bad team back to
back years these last couple of seasons. Bruce Bochi as manager.
They're into the World Series. It starts on Fox TV
Friday night. We don't know the opponent yet because the
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NLCS has a Game seven in Philadelphia tomorrow. Phillies franchise
has never played a Game seven. Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Bruce Bochie is now going to the World Series where
he could win his fourth World Series.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Fourth Yeah right.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Remember yet the every other year thing with the Giants
in the in the uh, the teens, you would say, right,
the teams we had the odds in of the team
said the three, the three every other year in the
teams and now again, when he was just kind of
sitting around, the Rangers said come and manage. And look,
we talk about the impact that a manager has on
a team, and sometimes you need a manager that is
(02:28):
fire and brimstone, and you need analytics, and you need
you have to find a new way, a new approach
at the plate. We need all of these different things,
and sometimes you need a guy that just knows, Hey,
how do I get my guys into the best frame
of mind? How do I get my guys at the
point where they're the best versions of themselves they can be?
And you hear about the calming influence, right, the calming
influence of Art House, the calming influence of Bruce Boci,
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And that's really what it was. You have a lot
of talented players on the Rangers. They've had a talented
roster for a while. And you know, we made fun
about how it's easy to hate the rank we can
hate any team, but that she can bringing in talent
all the time. And look, you got it right with
Corey Seger. You know, the Dodgers made a gamble that Okay,
we're gonna have Seger and we're gonna have Trey Turner,
and we know that we're probably gonna let see or
(03:11):
group we feel we can fill his position with Trey Turner. Now,
Trey Turner left. Now the Dodgers are stuck, but they
made the right calls and this is a Texas team
that is into the World Series. Just think about this
for a second, right, we talk about Bochie being the
right influence, and you can't misstated enough because they're two
big acquisitions that they've gotten from the Mets haven't really
given them anything. Right, Jacob de gram is done. He's
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been out all this year and maybe he pitches a
little bit at the end of next year. I read
yesterday that he's hoping for August or September to get cleared,
to be able hoping. You're talking about him missing a
long time and they got nothing from him, and you
get nothing basically from Scherzer, who is now a guy
that if you get two and a third innings from him,
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that's what you get.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Well, but we do know this he thirty nine home
runs hit in the regular season was no fluke whatsoever.
Because we've watched Garcia run wild like Hulkamania in the
mid eighties. If we want to throw back to historical
references like we were doing our little know your astros
game through the last couple of minutes, but the Seeger
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edition man seventy five extra base hits, ninety six RBI
and the robust three twenty seven batting average. You know,
it goes back to with the expansion of playoffs in
all sports, hang around, give yourself a puncher's chance, and
go in and just be playing some good ball down
the stretch. And they took that, and now they've rolled
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in and we're looking at the World Series and now
they await their opponent. I mean, it's an impressive run
you took out when you were doing your hate watching
thing a little bit earlier. You know, Bruce Bochi's sitting around.
It's like, well, it's not his fault that so many
other teams were dumb or were pot committed to they
brought in for analytics purposes or didn't want to spend
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the cash on a proven commodity. Right, you know, you
can still go old school, and that's one of the
things that we've watched with baseball. Sometimes the old you know,
eye an experience still matters over a couple of spreadsheets,
and I think that's what you saw here if.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Looking ahead, right, you see the Rangers now into the
World Series where they'll face either the Diamondbacks or the Phillies,
and you watch them take control of this series, lose
control of this series, and then get it back.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
This, this Rangers team, honestly, in this round proved how
good they were because up until now it had been boy,
they were really good all year. But then when the
pressure came to it, they folded. Right, They win as
a wild card, they couldn't win enough games, and the
Astros goin as the division winners. Okay, hey, they win
the first two games of the series. Wow, they have everything,
everything on control. No, then they give back the next
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three in their home ballpark. Right, we saw the home
team lose every single game in the series. Being able
to come back from that. I mean, that is one of.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
The more.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
That that is one of the more. I want to
say unexpected. But I didn't believe down three to two,
the letting the Astros back in, with the Asterers having
all momentum coming into these last two games, I didn't
give them a chance at this. I didn't give them
a chance of winning two games. They're gonna come and
win two games here in Houston, who has won the
World Series and they won it, and they and they've
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won a couple of World Series. They won it last year,
and it's a lot of the same players from last year.
And now they got back in and they're hot again,
and suddenly they come back home and the Rangers are
able to jump on top of them and get the
better of the pitching matchup, and they just mash.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I can't tell you.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I mean, really, I doubted them all the way until
this comeback right here tells me how dangerous they really are.
Because I thought, going they get into the World Series,
the Phillies are gonna roll over them. The Philly are
gonna have the pitching advantages and they're gonna roll over them.
But you see a team that's really hot. And my
only fear for the Rangers now is they're hitting. We'll
get a little bit of a bounce going into the
World Series. Are you gonna hit like this in the
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World Series? Probably not. And you know, our Garcia will
probably cool off. Your bats might cool off a little bit.
But I'll tell you that's the only fear I have
right now, is they'll get a little bit of a
bounce because right, because right now, going into the World Series, yeah,
I feel like they can mash the Phillies pitching because
I still expect the Phillies to win tomorrow night. But
I think that becomes one of your great series. Let's
see who can outslug the other. Right, if that's the
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matchup we ultimately get, right, you get the long hairs
as you call them.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Or maybe I'm just.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Taking your words, the long hairs, the yellers and the
screamers and the bandana ware is yes, that's.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
The Philadelpia, those guys against the Rangers waiting for him
on the other side. And to your point, right, Valdez
has been bad so game six. He's not had his
stuff the last couple of times out so thinking you
can get after him, great, But Christian Javier has been
nails in the postseason time and again. Right, we're talking
about starts and we're counting hits. We're not talking earn runs.
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We're not getting home runs allowed.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Like we did with Lancelaye. We're not doing any of that.
We're just talking.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
He's been virtually unhittable and here he gets one out
before he is chased from this game. Four hits allowed,
three on runs, twenty three pitches and he is gone.
Before you blinked. You might not have found the game
on the radio, and he was already the.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Channel is this game on? I'm trying to find Okay, great,
all right, got it, But.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Legitimately, if you're flipping around trying to find your local
station that was carrying it, you might have missed it.
Because he had a couple of batters and he was
off to the races, so he got some good work
from the pen. But then Franco gets beaten up in
his two thirds or francis sorry, and it is the
two thirds innings pitch, he gets beaten up pretty heftily,
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and all of a sudden it's an insurmountable deficit for
the Astros. But even in the ninth inning when you
were answering to hey, yah and Aljuve comes up and
hits a home run, you get a couple of runners
on bezels that it's like the eyebrows up going. They
can't do this, can they?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
They can't.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I mean, it's the Astros. It's at home, it's at
the juice box. Opportunity was knocking, but then they slammed
the door and just really quick before you get to
Steve di Seger for what's trending. So the fans had left,
like they were gone, oh yeah, have a thinning of
this game, and it was embarrassing. Oh ye behind like people,
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I mean, there was no the entire section was gone.
There was a couple people in the corner. It looked
like a like an early season April game where hey,
it's it's uh ten forty five at night and it's
it's it's it's thirteen degrees and there's nobody there. So
there's nobody in there and it's embarrassing. And then suddenly
for the ninth inning, a whole bunch of fans were
standing in those seats cheering for the Astros.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's almost I almost feel like the Astros saw that
and said, oh, you know what, this is embarrassing for us,
but with no fans behind there, Hey grab some fans
that'll stand up and cheer and put them behind home plate.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Because they were all standing and going, yeah, well they did.
I mean, first like tourists.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I think the first part of it was they realized
they were on the billboard in Times Square, so they
raised their hand in victory. And then they recognized, Wait
a minute, we're down seven runs even after the L
two v home run.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Hey, you guys want to come to sit behind home plate? Really? Yeah?
But just cheer? Yeah, sure, they I sat behind.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Don't played in a game seven of an ALCS They
had like.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
A bunch of people that didn't know each other, Like really,
they were just off a tourism bus.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Hey, what are we over here? Seed fillers?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Now this is where they shot that big scene in
a endgame where they killed Thanos And then we're getting
on the bus now, and hey, we're gonna get to
a real life Major League baseball game. Just go right
behind home plate and you're gonna be on television.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Gret, you were starting to make that sound like the
Kramer reality too.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
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Speaker 1 (11:02):
Some blowout and blow back from Monday Night Football that
was shockingly won by the Vikings. Now forget about trading
Kirk Cousins. They're three and four now. They beat the
forty nine Ers twenty two seventeen in a game that
it surprised me. The final score surprises you if you
watch the game, because the Vikings clearly had the better
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part of the play throughout against the forty nine ers.
And I'm ready to tell you, I'll tell you exactly
what the big hot take on the radio and on
TV is going.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
To be tomorrow. I got it down.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I guarantee it. I'm gonna guarantee you this. This is
what it's gonna be because so far throughout his career,
now with every week going by, just like it happened
for Mac Jones, every analyst slash former player who wants
clicks couldn't wait to say the most ridiculous things about
Mac Jones. He's doing stuff better than Tom Brady. He's
(11:57):
doing all. Now, finally you have somebody who, hey, wait
a minute, boy, brock Purty is really doing maybe some
Tom Brady thing. Look he's great, brock Purty. Look at this,
mister irrelevant. And now they're undefeated. His record is twenty
one and three. Brock Purdy is great. Right, And we've
told you the real the truth about brock Purty is
was he underdrafted?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I could just see the guy doing good things. Is
he gonna win passing titles? Is he Joe Montana? Does
he make plays to win games? Tell me one game
where he's made a huge, huge play, drive down the
field and thrown a touchdown. He's good because he's a
good He's a good quarterback on a team around him
that is really talented. But and that's okay, right, there's
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a lot of quarterbacks in NFL history that have carried
that mantle. He's not Tom Brady that have failed with
those opportunities. He's not Brady. He's not Aaron Rodgers. He's
not one of the next great quarterbacks in the NFL.
He is a guy that fits what they're doing right now,
and he's playing very well. But I guarantee you the
hot because you can't just say, oh, that's the realistic thing.
The hot take tomorrow is gonna be Hey, two bad
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games in a row. Quarterback rating was terrible. Two touchdowns,
three picks, two losses. Brock Party is overrated and the
league has figured him out. They've had enough tape on him.
Now over the last year plus, you had the you
had most of last year. Now you had their tendencies
this year through five games. Now brock Purty's gotten figured out.
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They figured them out, and now things are gonna be
more difficult and the forty nine ers are gonna have
to find out a new way. I can see it.
I can see it all day tomorrow. Brock Purty is
overrated and the league has figured him out because it
can't just be hey, brock party, you really overvalued and
talked to over hyped him. He's a good quarterback and
you can win a super Bowl with him. Nothing's changed,
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nothing's changed except now you because it's got to be
he's either the best or the worst, and now he's
gonna be he's overrated and the league is figured out.
Those will be phrases you hear word for word out
of people's mouth. That's the headline that Bursch is gonna tell.
It's gonna the story, guarantee it because then people are
and then they'll start listening and be like, oh, they
weren't common rational, how dare they guarantee?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Seventeen points back to back weeks. We saw it against
the Browns, and then well the Colts went and did
what they did with Minshu mania against the Browns. So
everybody's like, well, wait a minute, now we all know
the record of teams historically after they play the forty
nine ers the last.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Couple of years, they don't win games.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
And usually they're coming in battered, bruised, beaten, with a
bunch of backups. I got enough Bees, the killer Bees
mixed there, and but you know they survived that game.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Fine.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
But you look at this game tonight. To your point,
the Vikings moved the ball down the field Hockinson and Addison.
Addison did whatever he wanted, a couple of throws to
kJ Osborne, showing some love to our fantasy loving cohort
here at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But you know they don't have much.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Of a run game, and you know what, that's fine.
They were able to pass the ball and they were
good in their past blogging. To give Kirk Cousins time.
On the other side for the offense, you had McCaffrey
because that's gonna be the big thing. Christian McCaffrey was
available now Trent Williams and Deebo, Samuel Warren and look,
we're at the point in the NFL season where we
could do the laundry list of guys who are limited
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in terms of snapcounts or can't play at all. That's
certainly the case for brock Perty. He made two terrible
throws onet he tried to push the ball downfield into
what was essentially triple coverage, trying to thread the needle.
If he watched enough highlights from Sunday, he would have
seen enough evidence that that could work. So maybe he
tried it while on the run, coming up in the pocket.
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Maybe he should have tucked the ball and run again.
That's a whole other thing with time inside the final minute.
But yes, people are immediately gonna eviscerate him, getting gonna
ask all the questions like McDaniel got on to it
last week.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
It's just system guy, right, he's a purty is a
really good game manager. He's a really good game manager, and.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
That's what he is. But watch tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
He's overrated and the league is figured that's gonna be
the big one. The league is figuring him.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Out the fastest anybody's gone from on for that unrated
to overrated and now obliterated.
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Speaker 1 (17:10):
The Rangers are in the World Series as MLB Network
inside of John Palm Rosi. They're in the World Series
for the first time in forty two hundred days. The
Rangers knocking out the Astros doing many Baseball fans of favor.
All the Astros are out.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Ah, I feel so aw. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
This is one where I think it's like when the
Patriots are officially eliminated yeah. Now, all of a sudden,
like they rose up like it is Halloween. There's a
hand coming out of a grave because they win.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Suddenly it's evil dead.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Well yeah, but I mean they beat the Bills yesterday
at Holmes, Like eh, I think some of that was
Belichick showing out when Rabel was talking about we in
all that celebration pregame. Wait a minute, you're not taking
my job. But yeah, the Astros losing. Outside of the
actual Astros fans and mattress Mac, I don't think anybody cares.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I'm you know, I major League Baseball. I think every
average MLB fan is glad they're out.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
No, I mean like nobody's lamenting the Well.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You said don't care. I mean I think people care.
They want them to be It's like they want the
Yankees to be out. Except here's the difference, right the Yankees.
People want the Yankees out. I can't stand the evil empire.
They win, But when they're out, you're missing something, right,
because you're missing the big deal. But for the different right,
But the ass the Askers are such a villain from
the cheating scandal that people just don't want to see them.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
It's different.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
It's not like people are saying, oh man, the Astros
aren't in the World Series. I'm gonna miss No, No
one's gonna miss them in the World Series. The Astros
are out.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
They're out. We got rid of them. It's like, Okay,
that's kind of that's the difference, is it?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
But isn't there's something better about them losing on the
biggest stage. But I guess if they get to the
biggest stage, you're saying there's a chance they can still
win it.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I don't want to risk that, So this way we
don't just getting they go home.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
No risk it, no biscuit, a phrase that our next
guest knows all too well. He is in Philadelphia as
he anticipates Game seven of the NLCS, working the field,
working as Magic, growing a beard like Bryce Harper and
all the other Phillies playing long hair. He is MLB
Network insider extraordinaire and guest Lions Picker. Here on the show,
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John Paul Morosi, the Pope JP. What's happening, buddy?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
How are you good?
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Even to my friends, I'm outstanding. I really was fearful
lost that second part of my job description on this
radio program, because I believe that My prediction of a
comfortable Lions win from Sunday was just barely not true. Yeah,
I just want a point or two.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
You have it. Here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
You set expectations and they failed to achieve them. It's
not your fault.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
No, right, the game plan. The game plan was solid.
Like I love the exchange between Marcus Freeman and the
member of them.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
That was good.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Yeah, coaching Marcus Freeman's son, that was great. I'm a
big fan of coach Freeman, very very classy man.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So and you're fine because now you're five and two
on your on your Lions picks this yue, so you
get to pick again this week.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
So okay, we.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Have above five hundred.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Yeah, but guess what. Guess what in the series. And
this is what we call a transition here in the
in the industry. In the series that I'm covering, no
one is above five hundred. Because it is three and
three and we're about to find out tomorrow which National
League entry will be visiting the Texas Rangers in Arlington
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on Friday for Game one of the World Series.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
All right, well, let's start with the Rangers here before
we get into your series in the NLCS. It looked
like the Rangers were gonna walk away with it. Then
it looked like the Astros are gonna win it, and
the Rangers come out and when the last two games,
nobody wins a home game in this series, JP, how
can you make sense of the al yes going into
the World Series?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
It seems impossible.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
It does, except for I'll say two things. Pitching was
at times impressive on each side, at at times very inconsistent.
There was no real rhythm to this series with the
struggles of the starting pitching, So I would say out
of rhythm with respect to the starting pitching, in rhythm
with respect to the bat of one Atto lis Garcia,
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who was just unbelievable at this stage. He does remind
me in some respects of the meteoric rise of his
very close friend Randy a Rose Arena a few years ago,
where it just looks like there's going to be big damage,
or in the case of the issue with Brian and Brady,
you big controversy. When he's in to play. He's just
someone that you cannot take your eyes off on the
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field and listen. The Rangers acquired him as Jeff Passing
reminded us all this evening on. They acquired him via
a cash transaction in the final days of December and
twenty nineteen. It was one of those deals that is
noted in small agate type in the newspaper and might
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get two sentences in the sports briefs, but was not
at all a big deal. And the player acquired by
that method is the one who was the ALCS MVP
and is out shining all the guys that signed three
hundred million dollar contracts. It is just remarkable and is
why I love the game so much.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
We talk about the EBB and flow of things. The
Imbrallo suspension moved to next year. To me, JP is
just asenine, But watching him come in and then immediately
plunk a batter was part two of that. But go
back to Garcia for a moment, when you have runners
on second and third, you decide to pitch with him,
pitched him instead of putting him on first base. That
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one still doesn't make any sense. It doesn't register. Down
six to two, I.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Would agree with that, and I think two it's going
to be a difficult season for the Astros. I don't
know what they're going to do with some of their
key moves. Key personnel. Kyle Tucker is coming up on
the point where he needs to get an extension. Notably,
Dusty Baker does not have a contract for next year either,
So there's a lot of uncertainty right now. How does
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burl Ander age one more year on? They count on
the Colors next year? Does Brandley come back? There's a
lot of questions there, and ultimately those questions get a
lot more pressing when you don't win at all, and
I think that's where they're at right now. They had
a great team, I thought overall a great season, But
for a team that has made this their standard to
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fall short of it, I think prompts a lot of questions. Yes,
in game management for sure, but to the larger extent,
I do think this organization is arriving at an inflection point.
The first full off season for their GM Dana Brown,
so change could be coming to Houston Wild Texas there
in state rivals. They are on to the World Series.
Young Evan Carter. What a story he's become. It's their
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first World Series games to the Rangers of more than
four thousand days, going back to the fall of twenty eleven.
In that classic World Series against the Saint Louis Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
John Paul Morose the MLB Network Insider with us The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from Thetirack dot
Com studios. All Right, well, JP, we actually got to
hit you with a little bit of breaking news here.
I know where it's coming at you for your first reaction,
but we've gotten reports from the Athletic and other sources
that Dusty Baker has expressed to multiple inside and outside
the Astros organization that this was his final season as
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manager and he is going to walk away again. The
Athletic has this report just a couple of minutes ago,
Dusty Baker expressing to multiple inside and outside the Astros
organization that this year was his final season as manager.
Obviously that would be one big change, and I know
it's too early to say who they might get for
next year, but just this ride for Dusty Baker and
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never getting a game seven, it looks he's able to
win one.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Hey, you know we're gonna miss Dusty.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Even people that still don't like the Astros because of
the scandal, it's hard to not like Dusty Baker, and
you know baseball is going to miss him.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
When he goes, they will, and I think that we
have realized that this was going to happen at some point,
And again to your point, it's preliminary reporting, but it's
obviously been well thought out by our colleagues at the Athletics.
For the reporting they've done there, both channed the Roman Bridgieroli.
So I think with Dusty, I've got an amazing amount
of respect for him. He took that job when very
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few people would have and when you think about what
Dusty's been able to achieve in his career, all he
did since taking that job was make the Alcs every
single year and he made the World Series twice, one
at once, which he really wanted to do obviously for
his career. And maybe he just knows that it's time,
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and if he does, he is going to, to your point,
walk away in a fashion that made him beloved with
that organization and beyond, and really, to your point, was
probably the best ambassador that that organization could have ever
hoped to have as they went through the tumultuous return
following the revelation of the science dealing scandal. He's just
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an amazing person and someone who I've learned a lot
from over time. Always have enjoyed my conversations with him.
He's a treasure in the game, and I hope he's
still around it. I hope he Tobie stays, but if
this is it, then I certainly thank him for all
the impacts that he's made in a lot of different
people in the game, myself included.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
One heck of a run, no question about it.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
So Game seven tomorrow, Arizona, Philadelphia getting after it. A
couple of youngsters on the hill get in price around
two under and fifty bucks JP. People excited for Game
seven there in Philly.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
I can't wait. It's gonna be a lot of fun tomorrow.
Brandon Fought, as you mentioned, goes for the Diamondbacks, Ranger
Suarez going for the hometown Philadelphia Phillies. And at this
point I'll say that I'm out of predictions for this
series and it's impossible to have a feel. Yeah, I
think the one thing is that you know that you
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go back to game sevens, whether it's tonight or others.
I think managers often will be very aggressive in terms
of using their bullpen. You almost don't let your starting
pitcher lose the game, where if he doesn't have it,
you are making that move immediately. And by the way,
Bruce Bochi of course did that himself a little bit tonight,
but he did it in Game seven of the World
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Series back in twenty fourteen. Tim Hudson did He even
finished the second inning. So the starters, yes, Brandon Fott
and Rangers Suarez, but that could very easily change as
the day goes along, where you probably are going to
your bullpen a little bit early. I do think this
is gonna be Bryce Harper's first ever game seven. Think
about that in his career, the first ever game seven
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in the history of the Philadelphia Phillies. Think about that.
This organization has been around for well over one hundred years.
They've never played a game se so it's just it's
a really rich time and from the history of the
game to think about what's going to happen here. The
Phillies have been the favorite team, they're the deeper team,
they're the more star studded team, but they have not
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been able to put away the Diamondbacks because of a
combination of the Phillies bullpen struggles and the Diamondbacks resiliency
and opportunistic play. This is the first game today in
which they actually scored first, so they've had to come
back and win twice. They won today. Really, they were
in control from the very beginning. Merril Kelly basically pitched
around Schwarber early and then found a way to attack
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them late. It's a really really interesting matchup, and I
think in a lot of ways, guys, all the pressure
right now is on the Philadelphia Phillies. There. They're the
team that entered as the favorites. They've got to try
to find a way to win on home field. They've
got to get Bryce Starper, who's first hope, potentially for
him his first Militaries title. There's a lot on the line.
Whereas the d Backs young, largely unproven, they are playing
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with house money. My friends, it can be a lot
of fun to watch tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
All right. Lastly, JP, you can't get out of here.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
That is, I want to let you know I've electronically
gone in and stolen all the money you and your
family have, so your kids might not be able to
go to college because I'm gonna take your money and
I'm gonna go to Vegas. And who am I betting
on for Tomorrow night? The Phillies or the Diamondbacks. Remember
all the money.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yeah, your money's gone, but you have to place the bet.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You might now, I give it back to you if
I win. If not, well then we're all out of luck.
But who am I betting on.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
I don't know. I'm way I'm wow. I'm way too
close to this one to give you any sort of
a rational. I can't. I can't do that. What I
do know. I thought the last question was gonna be
something along the lines of if I was ready to
step back in and resume my wing team play calling
(29:49):
duty leaguered Michigan football team after all these revelations. Wow,
I gotta figure out my gosh, that's the whole other.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Uh well, I thought I thought you were the guy
with the cell phone in the stand JP.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I thought that was you were in the Michigan sweatshirt.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
There is I mean, I've got so many questions about this.
I've got so many questions. I just I don't know
why this whole thing was created. I don't know why
the heck they felt they need to do this, or
how they thought they'd get away with it. I mean,
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this is the whole thing is mind boggling and and
and let me just remind everybody, this is just the
public service announcement from me. Okay, just remember this if
you are the employee of a public university, remember that
emails by public employees are able to be obtained through FOYA.
(30:46):
Like it's all it's all there, guys, So like, whatever
the heck you say, it's in there. It's in the
public domain. It's just it is remarkable the things that
happen there, guys, it really is. But anyways, it's just
one little from one one person, because wanted to make
that point.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
He's on Twitter on John Morosi, that is at John
MOROSIMAB Network Insider morning show host on Sternsy and the Bear.
Check him out tomorrow morning. He'll make all kinds of
predictions on there now, uh, instead of the pope?
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Did I say the bear really?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Stern or Sterns and the bear the bear in the Pope.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I don't know. I don't know why I said the.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Bear the lions. The Lions play the bears on, thank you.
I don't think I'm responsible to know anything about the
bears until then.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
All right, all ry tyson Bage, it will be there
and to thwart you, I'm.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Studying the I think they're playing the the Lions are
playing the Raiders. Who I believe. Someone told me that
the Raiders don't play at the LA Coliseum anymore. Do
you guys hear about this?
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Well, they don't, nor did they play when they visited
Chicago yesterday.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
They play in San Diego. Now it's a weird. It's
a weird thing.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Playing, Sandy. I heard that there was a team in
San Diego that laughed, but then one of them came
in so that they play in San Diego. Okay, very good, off,
I'll check into the San Diego Raiders.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Got it all right?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Well, we'll talk to you JP tomorrow night after Game
seven of the NLCS again your official Lions pick.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
So we'll get that.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Can't wait, guys, looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
We'll talk to you.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
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The Rangers are in the World Series. The Astros are
going home. We'll love more on that coming up in
a little bit. I have to look at the potential
end of the Astros dynasty. Dusty Baker looks like he's
walking away.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Free agency to look at a lot of change.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Buck Showalter can go manage the Astros. Now, you're good.
I don't know another x Met that can go on
to great now, sure, why not?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
We sent all the x Mets to Texas. You're all
going You're all gonna be in the Greater State of Texas.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Well, they go to a place where there's no income
tax after being taxed at an exorbitant rate in New
York and New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
So no tax, No, you're not lying to me. No tax. No,
there's no tax. I need to keep no tax.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I get to keep ten percent. There's no tax, No,
no tax, no tax. You're sure I'm not gonna sign
and find out it's extra tax, no, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Right then I'll come there.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Uh, but Monday Night Football a shocker the way the
Vikings dominated the forty nine Ers with the vast majority
of this game. The Vikings came out and they were
aggressive from the get go. They were throwing the ball downfield.
They were trying everything they could to put pressure on
this forty nine er defense. And let's be honest, it worked.
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Kirk Cousins three hundred yards passing through three quarters first
got to do that against the forty nine ers since
Josh three and a half years ago. All right, this
was a great strategy. This was not Hey, let's see
what we can do, let's try to run. They decided
we are coming out throwing the football, and it was
a great strategy. Also helped by the fact that the
forty nine ers kept single covering Jordan Addison, which I
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still can't believe they did. After his second touchdown, It's okay,
maybe a little bit of help. Nope, nope, we're gonna
We're gonna let Jordan Addison still get single covered, and
he wound up ruining the forty nine ers with their
game tonight. But this game came down to the end.
The forty nine Ers had the ball, a little bit
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of time left to go, potentially get down the field,
score a touchdown, win the game. The legend of brock
Purty could grow. Except the Vikings pick off their last
gas pass from midfield with about thirty seconds left to go. Now,
why am I telling you how this happened? We're gonna
hear it, of course we are. This is Paul Allen,
friend of the show, Paul Allen. Yeah, mony K Fan
(34:58):
Vikings Radio Network. This is the final call of the
interception that ended the game.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Uh, you know, I'm gonna be honest. I didn't see
that one coming this time. No matter no matter how
many years.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
And how many times it happens, I still get surprised
by it. Ah, I say, God, I'm getting the buck.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
There's often times where there's been a back and forth
antagonism between maybe you and Frostburg or you and ty Shirt,
where you can see it's probably gonna rear its head
just to see if it can push you over here.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
There was no animis.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Wait till I become like Skynet and learn how to
run that board in there and watch me delete that
crap right out of the system.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Really, wait till I learn how to run that artie
kind of surprised somehow. It hasn't been because we've gone
and tried to go back to the well on certain
cool bits of our ten years here at Fox's from.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Last night, that's not in here? Are you kidding? We
don't have any We don't have any Jalen.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Hurts touchdowns all been knocked out of the system from
last night. I had a good run Jets Eagles, all.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Those highlights are gone. We don't have anything. We don't.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
But just wait, tight shirt. I'll say, hey, guess what,
there's some free seaweed in the kitchen. You're gonna run
in the kitchen and I'm gonna come and delete that
right out.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Of the systems of seaweed.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Seaweed that you eat good seaweed, well kind uh from
the sea.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Yeah, there's kines though.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Like literally, he's gonna go and he's gonna emerge like
the diver dude from Scooby Doo, and he's gonna have
that hanging off him and he's gonna offer to you.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
What beats you go to, uh the zoom of beach. Okay,
I'm in okay, good so. And then when I come
right around the delete.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Delete Now he didn't he didn't say zeema delete. He
said zemzema. You say Huntington. I'm out.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Oh, I'd like like like a malt liquor beverage right
now after watching Jordan Addison beat me in fantasy. All right,
let's hear Paul Allen k fed final call, the interception
that ended the game for the Vikings and gave the
loss to the forty nine.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Aready back to pass Hi when he needs to sack him,
he loops them over the middle.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Stop dead, he asked.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
The Vikings sat the Niners and cam Bynum has a
two interception night and now a fight on pearls on
the field.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
And we're not over exaggerating that there were punches thrown.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
The salurass Niners can go ahead and get out of
town these sour as. I didn't tell you exactly what
he had to say.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
I just like Paul Allen's call was good, these sands
and bringing everybody in the back dude a grade.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Yeah, that's the kind of play by play guy I
would be, because.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
You know, I like the under his breath these someone
got to sack him. Someone's got to sack him. Like,
can you imagine how I would call a Jets game.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
No, I don't even want to think about that.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
That would be by the end of three and a
half hours, you would be sweating profusely.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
It'd be like performance art where you fell to the
ground on the final call.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
If it was if it he was.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
On satellite only where I could say whatever I wanted to,
then I would feel much freer. But I would worry
about my leguage a little bit.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Would you have random things to bite into you like
you were Frank the Tank?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
I just I need even bite on my bite plate
because I'm two nervous right now. I like tark Like
Jerry Tarkanian biting.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
He's gone through seven sandwiches. He just needs to bite
on something. When it gets tense.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Jets come out. I don't like this formation. This is
gonna be a sack. Watch his watch the sack. Watch
the sack. Watch the am.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
I told you he's gonna get sacked. I told you, WHOA.
Now he's doing that thing. He's dancing in front of
our tackle. I mean he might as well have a
number on there for the turnstyle to show you how
many people have come through in this morning's rush hour.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
He lost seven yards oh show Robert Sala going oh yeah, yoh,
whose fault is that, Robert Sala?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
It's your fault second down at seventeen. That's the kind
of play by play I would be just like that.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
I think we should start doing accompanying play by play.
I mean, people do it.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Henour ass forty nine let's hear it. Well, let's hear
his call about the sour ass forty nine ers one
more time.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Birdie back to pass him and he needs to sack
him in the middle. Stop dead.
Speaker 8 (39:05):
Yeah, Vikings fit the Niners and cam Bineum has a
two interception night and now a fight unfurls on the field,
and we're not over exaggerating that there were punches thrown.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
These surass Niners can go ahead and get out of town.
You you can go and get out of town?
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Now?
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Is that a phrase? Sour ass? I like that? But
is that a phrase? Stinks?
Speaker 6 (39:29):
Like?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Can we say that? I didn't even I've never heard it? Like,
is that something that they're gonna come back and go?
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Whoa? You said? Now is after ten o'clock? You're good? Yeah,
but he said, okay, let me look it up and
make sure there's no like hidden meaning. Well, let me
let's see.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Hang on, let me look at cause, I'll find it.
Define it well, it's I looked it up. It's slang
defined dot org.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Okay, hang on, I got it right here. Uh ooh ooh,
don't want to look at Urban Dictionary on that. Uh ooh,
don't want to look there. Oh don't want to look there. Nope, nope, nope,
nope nope. Hang on, yeah, wait nope nope no first
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page all definitions.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
Can't say no, no, We can't tell him no, no, no
two graphic.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
You know, sometimes I feel like like the websites that go, oh,
here's what the real meaning is? The slang dictionary what
it really is? I'm like, you're just making that up
like it's not a rare thing. I'd want to make
up something that's really embarrassing that's about bodily parts or
sex to make it seem like, oh, it's really bad.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Well it's bad or is it just? You know, decide
where you want to draw your line in terms of
your discourse. Now, for us, for FCC compliancy, we can
only go so far. You can say sour ass, but
you can't explain what it is.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Which is a weird play. Sour ass Niners. Come on,
it's a great angry kind of thing. You think, George,
you want to get out of here.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
I think George Kittle was waiting for Paul Allen outside
the booth when he was leaving.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Now the way, talk to you. Where's that sour ass
play by play guy, Paul Allen? Where is he? I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
Paul Allen wants to go shake Ward's hands for his
inability to stay anywhere near Nedison On.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
Now, to be fair, now, didn't he put out a statement.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Didn't Paul Allen say something either on social media or something?
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (41:13):
Yeah, I mean he said he's sorry about the you know,
salty language, but you know so No, no, no, let me
let me let me find the the actual quote there,
because I mean it is pa on the mic. I
want to make sure we give him his uh proper
credit for the apology that he did put out. Let's
see it was, uh sorry for the fall language, but
(41:35):
stop throwing punches at our players.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Still much respect for the Niners, Still much respect for
the sour ass Niners.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
Just want to just call hey, he calls him as
he sees him, just like he calls horse races and
he calls those vikings games. Yeah, because remember, why do
you even ponder passing?
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Someone needs a second? Someone needs a second? How great
is that? That is pretty good out loud? So I
need to sack him.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
I really, I mean I I honestly I would be
a trendsetter played by because I would be like that,
like the entire game, I'd be. I'm not watching television's
I'm listening to that guy. I'm listening to Jason Smith
because he is. I don't know what he's gonna say
about the Jets on this. I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (42:16):
Well, he's a truth teller. I have no idea because
he calls it as he sees it. There's no filter,
there's no corporate uh structure that you're adhering to in
that moment. If you're really going stream of consciousness, it
is really about the brand and the entity and the
the misery in a lot of cases, for some of
the teams you follow of Jason Smith.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Third and two Jets changing personnel. Why the hell is
Dalvin Cook coming into the game. He staks he's done.
Why does Breesall need to breather now?
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Why?
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Why couldn't you get him a breather on second down
when you were throwing and Dalvin Cook could block out
of the backfield?
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Why is this? See?
Speaker 1 (42:51):
See, this is why I'd be a great head coach,
but no one want to work with me because they
would go, I don't know how to respond to that.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
I don't know what to say. What do you want
me to say?
Speaker 5 (42:59):
One man Booth Now, your guy Breshall caused some problems
earlier today because it was the anniversary of him tearing it.
So he put up on Twitter, found out I tore
my ACL and that's where people stopped reading.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was like a year ago today.
Speaker 5 (43:18):
Look at God man fingers crossed answered all my prayers
and then some with the prayer hands.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
But if you just stopped after the first five.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
I'm going to read you the beginning of Breese Hall's
tweet right now, let me watch your facial rere what
holy cow?
Speaker 5 (43:35):
But yeah that got Let's see at last count, it's
been seen by two point nine million people. It's been
hearted some fourteen point five thousand.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
That's something that you could start with a year ago today.
You start with that, know, just the way Yeah, a
year ago today, I tore my ACE sentence structure.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
Man, that's all a sense.
Speaker 5 (43:56):
So you need a copy editor there to help you
out because it caused a lot of people unnecessary anks.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Can you imagine if something happened he actually sent it
before he finished found out a year found out? I
tore my ACL. Oh crap, I had said, hang on,
let me just write a new one.
Speaker 5 (44:10):
Why did he delete Eddie Georges ACL?
Speaker 3 (44:15):
What happened? Where did this happen? Was he carrying deer
meat upstairs? What happened? You know you default to that
carrying deer meat. I haven't used that in a while. No,
you know, you just use that like the other deer
you did. No, you used it, used the deer meat
thing just the other day.
Speaker 5 (44:32):
We just spent a lot of time in the studios
yelling at I feel like you just said that we're
like the old guys at the Muppets. At the end,
I think you just said that. I said that five years.
Check the tape, go back and check through AI. I
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Speaker 3 (45:01):
Sour ass Niners need to get out of town.
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