October 28, 2025 • 41 mins
There was really only one story worth discussing last night and that’s Shohei Ohtani continuing to prove he is absolutely the greatest baseball player of all time, and we are lucky to be watching him in real time. Dan and the Danettes react to last night’s World Series Game 3 18-inning marathon.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
There are a lot of people in Los Angeles doing
the following this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
That was a long game.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Late night, six hours, thirty nine minutes, one of the
greatest World Series games that maybe you didn't see. That's
one of those where you go, I'm going to be
watching SportsCenter in the morning and one of the great
home runs of all time that I don't know how
many people got to see Freddie Freeman go deep to
win that game last night. All right, come on in,
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stay a while, we'll dissect this. Kevin Malar of Major
League Baseball Network was there. We'll let him sleep in
for a little bit. He'll join us later. Reggie Miller
will stop by as well, and Steve Young, the Hall
of Fame quarterback as well. Eight seven seven three DP
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of the Day. All of that coming up. So the
Dodgers beat the Blue Jays on Freddie Freeman's home run
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in the eighteenth as they lead two games to one.
Can we play what it sounded like?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Marvin?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Do we have the call? On AM five seventy, Little
delivers Freeman. It's one high in the air, straightaway center
field parcel, petal walk.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Freddie Freeman missed a World Series ends the marathon at midnight.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Freddie Freeman is one of four players with multiple walk
off home runs in the postseason, so David Ortiz, Bernie
Williams in Carlos, Korea, but Freddie is the only player
in baseball history with multiple walk off home runs in
the World Series. Shoho tani Oh, by the way, had
two home runs two doubles. They also walked him five times,
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four intentionally. And that's one of those moments where, and
we were talking about this earlier this morning, we're actually
watching the greatest baseball player of all time. We're watching
him in real time. It's happening right now. It's not
one of those Hey, you should have seen that guy play.
He's the greatest baseball player.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Of all time.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Babe Ruth did something, but he didn't do it together.
He didn't do a combination. That doesn't mean he couldn't
have done it, but he didn't do it. He was
a great pitcher, best pitcher in the game, and then
all of a sudden decided to be the greatest hitter.
Show Hey Otani with what he and he pitches tonight,
So you're going to have that performance where you walk
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him four times. And I talked about this when the
series started. If you don't have left handed pitching against
the Dodgers, you're in trouble because you don't have you
got Freddie Freeman and show Hey Otani, and if you
don't have somebody that you can bring in and go,
I can.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Get that guy out.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
They've gotten to the point where he's getting Bond's treatment
and I want you to pitch in shame.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
If you're going to intentionally walk him.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I want you to throw the four pitches that look
silly because you don't want to face him. I don't
want it to be I had we're going to walk
him and I point him to first base. Nope, I
want you to pitch in shame. I want you to
acknowledge that you can't get him out, and you throw
those four pitches. But I mean one of the home runs,
I went, oh.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
What do you How could you possibly put it anywhere
near that? And they did, and I'm thinking, oh, my goodness,
so Ohtani made him pay. Freddie Freeman made him pay.
There was one nervous moment there when Clayton Kershaw was
in with the bases loaded.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I just was like, just get the out, go, sit down,
don't pitch anymore, and maybe you win the World Series.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But they would cut away to his wife.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Oh, you talk about the ebb and flow, the highs
and lows, and you rarely think about when you're the
family is there watching this, Oh, just get off the mount.
That's all I could think of. But watching that last night,
or at least as long as I could. You're watching
the best player in baseball history.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I know people are going to say, well, what about
Babe Ruth. Babe was a better hitter. But what he
is doing at the same time, And imagine, just imagine
if he goes out there tonight and pitches at five
or six innings quality baseball and everybody emptied their bullpen
like this is one of those losses. That's not just
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one loss. You used your bullpen, you realize you can't
pitch to Otani, and all of a sudden you're gonna
face him on the mound. That was That was monumental
I think last night. But up two games to one.
I know it's only one game. All it takes is,
you know, a couple of breaks going your way, but
that one, that one's stinging, and you got to turn
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around and go back out there and play again tonight.
And then the next game is on Wednesday. So these
pitching staffs are really going to be taxed. But that's
where if you get Yamamoto, who gives you a complete game,
if Otani can give you five or six innings here,
you have an incredible advantage here. All right, See, let's
pull question for hour one.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Yeah, you know, when you look at his at bats
last night, show Heotani, he had a double, a home run,
a double, a home run. He was then intentionally walked
four straight times and then walk the fifth time.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
That's a hell of a night.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, when you're talking about let me see. So he
walked five times four intentionally, reach base nine times nine
times in the game, the only player to be walked
intentionally four times in a postseason game since they started
tracking this in nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
It's fight.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Paul was just saying, if you took that series of
at bats from showho Tony, just from last night, that's
good enough to win a World Series MVP.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
For the whole series, So the whole thing. If you
had two doubles and two home runs.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Well, he won the National League the NLCS MVP based
off one game, and he might win this MVP. Wait,
based off one game. All right, we'll get to your
phone calls coming up. What was the poll question, Seaton.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Well, we could start with intentional walks since you got
there right there. Intentional walks are super smart or super lame.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, no, I get it, but I want you to
pitch in shame that you can't get that guy out.
I want you to acknowledge with four pitches out of
the strike zone that I can't get him.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
You need to be humiliated that way. I'm all for
speeding the game up, I really am, but I'm not
for just we choose to put him up for no,
throw the four pitches in shame.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Throw them.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yes, Either that or you must walk up to the
hitter and escort him to first base, like you know,
you're going out there for homecoming and on the football field,
and you must have him hold your arm and you
escort him to first base. We must shame you, Yes,
we must be shamed.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
We must do it. Shame you.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
All right, we get to phone calls coming up. There
was football last night, and you probably saw why Patrick
Mahomes is the leading candidate for the MVP. Now you
see the Chiefs full strength for the most part. Now,
granted you didn't have Jadon Daniels that would have made
obviously a little bit more of an impact. But you
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have Rashi Rice there and that's a big difference. So
you get Xavier Worthy and Rashi Rice now all of
a sudden, and you got to deal with you speed.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Jason kelce doesn't have to do much. His role is
Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
His role is more of a like Gronk late in
his Patriots career, where Brady only wanted him there for
the postseason and in the red zone. That's it, and
maybe that's what you get out of Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
But watching last.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Night, he did have a touchdown, but that's not what
their offense is really predicated on. It's still I got
guys that I can make plays with now.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
And Mahomes was great. He was He's great.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
He keeps plays alive and it's one of those you
see these younger players trying to do that. They're just
not as well equipped as Mahomes is. You can keep
it alive and then you have to all of a
sudden say all right, I'm gonna call this off or
I might throw it away, I might run for a
little bit. He's not scrambling, he's just keeping it alive.
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And I think there's a big and I'm going to
talk to Steve Young about that next hour. Keeping a
play alive but also not scrambling around and trying to
hold the ball for five or six seconds. That's when
you get in trouble. That's when you take sacks. But
watching Mahomes, and I know it's not the same thing
as Otani, but you are watching something incredibly special. He's
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not going to be the greatest quarterback of all time
unless he wins more Super Bowls than Brady or is
equal to Brady. It's kind of what we did to Lebron.
You know, he's not passing Michael Therefore he's not going
to be greater in people's minds. But you're watching Mahomes
play a position, the toughest position in all the sports
to play, and playing it differently than anybody else in
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the league, and he is the one great. He is
Marianna Rivera when it comes to quarterbacking and closing out
a game, keeping a play alive, all of those great things. Now,
is he been roughed up embarrassed in a couple of
Super Bowls? He has, But when you see him play
at a very high level, it's a treat because I
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can go back to seeing Joe Namath play, Johnny Uniteds
late in his career, all of those quarterbacks, Bart Starr,
you know, guys in the sixties, and to see the
transformation of the quarterbacking position.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
To watch the evolution of that, it's great.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And I got into this business because I loved watching it,
covering it, being around it. And to watch o'tani last night,
to watch Patrick Mahomes last night, what a treat, an
absolute treat. All right, So we'll have phone calls coming up.
The football game last night. Not a lot to recap
with that. But the Chiefs are now five and three
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and the Commanders, you know, you start to look and
you go, okay, we can't afford too many of those losses. Now,
that's a loss that we expected even with Jaden Daniels.
But you get to the halfway point, trade deadline. I
think the Bills are going to be involved in the
trade deadline. I think Dallas is going to try to be.
There's a couple of teams that are buying. I'm not
sure who's selling. That'll be interesting as well. All right,
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let me see anything else that needs to be brought up.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
Yes, Paul, I was thinking about Mahomes his stats the
past couple of years. His stats have been different than
this first five years. His first five years as a starter,
he averaged three hundred and ten passing yards per game.
The past three years, he's averaging two hundred and sixty
passing yards per game. His quarterback rating is the same.
His efficiency is completion. You just remove Tyreek Hill. They
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don't have the deep threat or they don't try to
go deep as much. But you know, it's less spectacular,
but it's just as efficient.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
But he changed defenses because they decided they weren't going
to give up the big play. They were going to play,
you know, a shell kind of defense that won't let
you get those big plays. Each of Kansas City's five
wins this season have been by thirteen or more points.
Last year, they won a total of three games by
thirteen or more. So it's just a different Kansas City team.
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But that that's kind of the beauty of Andy Reid
and Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
How are we going to beat you?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Okay, we're going to be explosive to then all of
a sudden, we're just going to be methodical to then
we're going to be a defense and run first team
to now we're back to being explosive with those receivers.
But the average margin of victory in Week eight was
eighteen and a half points.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
That's the most we've had.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
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Hi Andrew.
Speaker 9 (12:51):
Good morning, Dan Dennit, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 10 (12:54):
That wasn't at the game here on the West.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
Coast last night. I was up until eleven fifty pm
watching it like a whole baseball game, even after Monday night.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Football ended, which was just epic.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
My question is this, like you've talked about show Heyo Tani.
Freddie Freeman being the only Major League baseball player ever
with two World Series walk off home runs. That's amazing
in itself. But what's a more important home run to
Dodger history Kurt Gibson's home run or Freddie Freeman's home
run last night?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Oh Gibson, Yeah, because Gibbey's I mean, he's going against Eckersley,
one of the great closers of all time. You're a
big underdog and all of a sudden you set the
tone for the It won the World Series. It wasn't
a walk off, it was Game one, but he limped
up there I think it was O two, and you know,
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all of a sudden, Eckersley's going to throw that back
door slider and Gibby's going down. But now that that,
to me was more important because the Dodgers weren't favored
these This Dodger team has been had been big favorites here,
and that Dodger team did not have the firepower against
the Oakland A's didn't compare. You had Oral Hersheizer, and
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you had a group of players that kind of somehow
figured it out to some of the parts. But I
would say Gibby Gibby's will live in infamy. I mean
that that one's and it's a great call as well.
I don't believe what I just saw, Like, oh my god, awesome.
And by the way, Gibby Gibby is suffering with Parkinson's.
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And I talked to David Wells when we were in Tahoe,
and I waited until some of this information got public,
so I'm not speaking out of turn, but did talk
to him, and he goes hunting with Gibby. They own
a hunting lodge I think in Michigan, and you know,
he says that he's struggling, but he's still Gibby. He's
still competitive, he's still you still see that fire.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
In him, but he's been struggling.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Uh So, David went into detail talk a lot about Gibbee,
and he did say, you know, don't say anything about this.
I did appreciate him sharing with me because I always
had that great appreciation. I go back to Gibbey when
he was in Michigan State as a wide receiver and
I remember him, Yeah, Poling.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
There's a bit of a comparison Apples and Oortes, Kirk
Gibson and Freddie Freeman. Kirk Gibson was a great player
for Detroit for a decade I think before he got
to the Dodgers, and then when he got to the
Dodgers MVP the World Series. I bet there's people who
just associate him as a Dodger because that's his biggest moments.
Freddy Freeman made four or five All Star teams, probably
five All Star teams with Atlanta. But then he's now
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he's on this bigger stage with the Dodgers and doing
World Series stuff. Twenty years from now, you be like, oh,
that great Dodger player, Freddie Freeman. He also played a
little bit with the Braves ten years.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And go back to Otawi where people are going to
forget that he played for the Angels and he won
two MVPs there, but he never got these opportunities. You
want to cement yourself in history, do it on the
big stage, do it in the postseason. And that's why
Mike Trout never got that opportunity. And Mike Trout will
be one of those guys where people go, how many MVPs,
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how many World Series, how many what are you doing
in the postseason. It may not be fair because it's
only one player, but you know we said for years
the Angel should have traded Mike Trout, and you know,
he was a great soldier. I don't think he ever
asked out, granted, and he's getting paid four hundred million dollars,
but O'tani knew that he needed to be on a
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bigger stage. He knew greatness and that's what you're seeing.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, Marvin, is.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
Freddy Freeman going to be in the same category as
maybe like a David Ortiz, where the postseason heroics put
you in the Hall of Fame along with the great
regular season All Star games and things like that.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I'd have to look at his numbers.
Speaker 11 (16:50):
He's got an MVP.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I think, yeah, yeah, let's take a break. We'll take
a break and look at that just getting started. More
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Speaker 2 (17:43):
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you're Fox and you're like, hey, we got all this
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Speaker 3 (17:56):
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Speaker 2 (18:31):
Looking at Freddie Freeman's career, I'd say he's on the
doorstep of being a Hall of Famer. If you have
twenty four hundred hits, got three hundred, just under three seventy.
As far as home runs, let's say he ends up
with four hundred home runs, you end up with How
old is he?
Speaker 8 (18:50):
He's uh thirty five years old?
Speaker 13 (18:53):
Who?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Five All Star appearances with Atlanta four straight and four
years with the Dodgers. He's got an MVP, he's got
a three hundred batting average for his career.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
The postseason is a big boost.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's a walk in Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah, yeah, Marvin.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
I think long gone are the days of I need
to hit this number and I'll get into the Hall
of Fame. I think it's were you at the peak
of your career? Like, how good were you at your peak?
Speaker 14 (19:21):
Well?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I think having the World Series MVP helps a lot,
and having big moments in the World Series.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I do think that we like round numbers.
Speaker 14 (19:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
It's like Dale Murphy had three hundred and ninety eight
home runs, Barry Sanders I think had ninety nine touchdown. Like,
we like to get round numbers here. They're just easier
to remember, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 11 (19:41):
Yeah, but that's important if you don't have any postseason success.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (19:45):
Like I don't know how many home runs David Ortiz has,
but I know in the biggest moments in the play
in the postseason he came up big.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Gold Glove winner as well, had one of those. So yeah,
probably going to be an MVP or probably going to
be a Hall of Yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
If Freddy Freeman weren't batting behind two spots behind Babe Ruth,
you'd probably win another World Series MVP. You know, Yamamoto
and Otani are gonna be one and two for the
World Series MVP. And Freeman got the home run.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, it's one of those that we're going to remember
his home run and we might actually forget that a
guy got on base nine times, intentionally walk four times.
He had two home runs as well, and it was Hey,
remember the Freddie Freeman walk off home run in eighteen innings?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yes, Todd, how.
Speaker 15 (20:29):
Many World Series do you have to win as a
starter if you didn't necessarily do anything that huge in
the World Series or in the postseason, like we owe
the quarterback once they say two Super Bowls were putting
them in the Hall of Fame, So how does that
work in baseball like a five, six eight would be.
Is there any way of calculating that if you like
the way you do with a quarterback in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
No, No, because I you know, even when you look
at voters, I don't know if anybody brings up Ted
Williams not winning World Series, Barry Bond's not winning World Series.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
So it.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But their greatness. They didn't need that, they were that great.
But I think some players. When you do have that,
that can put you over the edge, that can put
you right on the doorstep of the Hall of Fame.
But I with what Freddie Freeman has done with two
different teams, being an All Star that many times, a
World Series MVP, winning a couple of World Series and
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having a couple of big moments. Having numbers, I still
think you have to have like a ballpark number. Now
it's not five hundred home runs. I think if you
have four hundred, and you're gonna have four hundred home runs,
and you're gonna have twenty seven twenty six hundred hits
and you have his resume, then you're gonna go into
the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Freddy Freeman also has seven career home runs in the
World Series that puts him tied for tenth all time,
and most of the guys ahead of them played at
least fifty years ago, you know, Mantle, Ruth Bearra, Louke Gerig,
even Reggie Jackson has ten. But Freddy Freeman's done it
in only sixty four played appearance. He is the highest
World Series home run ratio.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Christin Syracuse, Hi, Chris, good morning, what's on your mind?
Speaker 16 (22:07):
Hey, Thanks Dan, Hey, I want to comment on the
baseball and also you know the NBA's gambling report last week.
I think that will definitely have an impact on the
severity of the Ravens upcoming punishment for their injury report misstep.
And interesting in the baseball Freddie Freeman born in Canada
and played for the Canadian national team and after last
night's game with Shohy pitching tonight, Man, the ratings are
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going to be unbelievable and I believe this postseason Showhey
had a stretch where he was one for twenty one
from the plate, but with the way he's hitting now
and last night the Jays walked him five times and
that resulted in zero Dodger runs. You wonder if for
this game and maybe for the rest of the series,
they're going to walk them every time. And I'm sure
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that the MLB and the networks are dreading that possibility,
and not just for tonight, but long term because some
of us, including me, we tune in to watch him.
He's kind of like the Caitlin Clark of baseball.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You want to see great players have the opportunity to
be great, and that was always disappointing when bonds would
come to the plate and they just put him on
you know, when you're walking him intentionally and he walks
over two hundred times in a season. It's just bad
optics entertainment. You want to see Otani swing the bat.
But there's one pit. He had a home run last
night on a pitch and I'm thinking, in a in
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a million years, going over the scouting report, don't put it.
Don't put the ball there, out over the plate, don't
let him extend.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Now he's going to beat you.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
He can go opposite, he can go dead center, he
can go obviously you know, take it to right field.
I'm just amazed sometimes the pitches that Judge and Otani
get where you just go, How could you possibly come
even close to that location. I'm going to make you
chase something, and if I don't, then I've walked you.
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But I can't go up there and go I'm going
to pitch to you and then give you a pitch
where you go. Like Suresers pitch to him was up
you know, it didn't have the volac. If you're throwing
ninety nine there, then okay, maybe you get him to
pop it. Up. But if you're going to throw that
inside to him and it doesn't have movement or it
doesn't have velocity at ninety nine, he's gonna take you deep.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
But the other one out over the plate.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I went, oh, my goodness, you deserve to be you know,
watching him circle the basis uh Buddha in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Hi Buddha, what a DP. That was exhausting.
Speaker 17 (24:38):
But every day it's the World Series, So let's go fritzy,
Uh Dan. I found myself a little Dodgers bar in
the heart of San Francisco and spent all six and
a half hours streaming and watching the midnight marathon. And
I'm calling in today Dan to celebrate and praise William
Kleine Junior, the third Jilia Hollywood line. I mean, that
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dude was so nasty, Dan, Like he wasn't wasting any
time either. It seemed like as soon as he caught
the ball from will Smith, he was like already winding up.
It was riveting and like, no matter what happens in
the series, he will never pay for a beer in
La again. I also want to give a special shout out,
Dan to the Atlanta Braves for letting Freddie freaking Freeman
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walk and become a Dodgers postseason legend. And then I
have one question before I go for all of you
in the studio. I want to know exactly who was
up and got to see Freddie's walk off live.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
M Nobody, nobody, nobody, Hell no.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I think maybe the tenth inning.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That's where we That's where you were like, hey, could
we have a runner start the tenth inning?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Oh, that's right, we don't do that in the postseason.
It was great.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
You know, that's playoff baseball, tension matchups and big time plays,
big time plays. Adam in La Hi, Adam, what's on
your mind?
Speaker 18 (26:06):
Oh, good morning, mister Patrick. I don't know how I'm
gonna get through work today except my my adrenaline going
to carry me through. I'm just there's so many layers
to go through that game last night with you said
at Clayton Kirsch's wife getting to see him going with
the bases loaded. I mean, all of the Tider fans
are just cringing like, no, not again. Hopefully this doesn't
end bad. You know, I know you've seen it in
(26:28):
a million times, so it's just like you wanted the
best for that guy, and like like Boody just said,
Joe Kline and you got Henriquez and all these unsung heroes.
So many great plays in the field by Tommy Edmond
and great throws by pay after Hernandez. I mean, there's
just so many layers. And then you get to show
Hayes game and you get to four intentional walks, which
is a little stut of the day. One left and
(26:50):
Andre Dawson record for five intentional walks back on May
twenty second, nineteen ninety. There you go, Paulieu but again
then Freddy Freeman again. Thanks Atlanta Breay is what a gift.
But yeah, just an amazing day to be a Dodger's
day and hopefully we can carry it through to get
another world championship. And yeah, just an amazing feeling and
hopefully I don't policy but my death today.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, if you're the Dodgers, you can thank the Red Sox,
you can thank the Atlanta Braves, you can thank the
angels for helping you bring together this great lineup that
you have. Dave in Arkansas, Good morning, Dave.
Speaker 19 (27:25):
I don't know if I want to be called Pittsburgh Dave.
Speaker 17 (27:30):
You know, first off, prayers.
Speaker 19 (27:32):
Up for Jamaica. What's about to happen down there with
the hurricane is as off the charts. But I was
so embarrassed Sunday night watching that football game, not so
much for the play. I mean, it was getting bad.
I understood that I'm making dinner, I'm watching the football,
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but to hear go Pack, go take over. I'm still
gonna call of Hinsfield, but take over that stadium. I
was so embarrassed. That does not happen. We travel, we
go to all the other stadiums, we take over other towns.
I could not believe what I was hearing. And I
(28:15):
do have a question about what do you think they
should do with the trade line deadline? It seems like
they need defensive help, but they don't have any offensive
help to give away. And if they try to get
offensive help, I don't know if anybody wants. I mean,
outside of tj WY, you can say, but that's just
not going to happen.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
But what do they do? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
You spent your money, DK Metcalf. You wanted to improve
that offensive line. Since you had a forty year old
as your quarterback. We thought the defense was going to
be formidable. That's been kind of the surprising part for me.
John in Minnesota, Hi, John, Hey.
Speaker 13 (28:54):
Dan, I had a question, where does O'Kane's contract rank as.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
Far as like ROI right, I mean.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
Him, it's got him and Mahomes and then nobody else.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Well, I think Mahomes is one of the greatest bargains
in sports contract history because at the time I remember
I remember that day and people were like, can you
believe they gave him a half a billion dollars. I said,
it's going to be a bargain. That guy will be
a bargain, and he is a bargain.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
It took a little while, but you saw what the
return on your investment is with Otani, and I saw
something where somebody said, the Dodgers have already gotten their
return on that contract, the ROI return on investment. I mean,
that's that's a lot of money. But if you're talking
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about what he does here in Japan, I don't know
how you're able to look at that and go, Okay,
we can break this down and we know exactly what
they paid and what their return is. I don't know
what that return is, what that return looks like. You know,
you still have a great fan base. It's not like
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you're going to bring people out and it's the Marlins.
You know, it's the Dodgers. They're going to come out,
you know, local TV ratings revenue that way. Also, what
this means in Japan, what this could mean for a pipeline.
I mean Yamamoto came over so he could play with
Sho Hey Otani and look at.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
His value here.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
So maybe you get that Japanese pipeline where these players
are going to want to come over and since there's
no salary cap, they're going to want to play with Otani.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
Yeah, Pauli Otani has one of the more unique contracts
in baseball history. This year, he's going to make two
million dollars. It's like an NFL running back. He is
going to make two million dollars per season the next
seven seasons. Then when he turns thirty nine, he makes
sixty eight million dollars per year basically after his career
is over. For the next nine years, it's all deferred,
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which makes it that sports business journal article you're talking about.
All the money they Owetani, they owe Otani the Dodgers
hold so they're earning interest on it. They're not paying
him yet, they're holding it and it gets to him
way at a later date.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah, because he has so much money coming in from
endorsements off the field that the two million dollars salary,
he's fine with that. And the Dodgers created a business
model here that maybe I don't know if the Mets
did this with Sodo, but if you get somebody to
take deferred money, and if I'm a fan and I'm like,
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this isn't we're paying Bobby Benia. If you're a Mets
fan for that contract, you're gonna be like, hey, we're
paying Shoheo Tani sixty eight million dollars and he's retired.
If you're a Dodger fan, you got that kind of money,
you got that financial backing. You don't care, doesn't bother,
it doesn't hurt your team when he's retired. It's not like, oh,
(31:56):
we got a dead cap hit or something. It's we're
paying this guy. You know, we gave him a golden parachute.
But he's got a lot more baseball left to be played.
All right, we'll take a break play of the day.
Go figure, what do you think that'll be?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
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Speaker 13 (32:25):
Oh God.
Speaker 14 (32:28):
The day.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
This is the play of the day.
Speaker 9 (32:35):
Check this out.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Little delivers Freeman wh's one high in the.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Air, straightaway center field, Marshal Petal walk.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Freddie Freeman miss the World Series ends the marathon midnight.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
That's courtesy of a m five to seven to a
LA Sports Dodgers Network. When you're known as mister World Series,
that's a good nickname to have, like mister October, Mister
World Series, the only player with multiple walk off home
runs in the World Series. That is your play of
the day. By the way, we have the Toronto Blue
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Jays call of Freddie Freeman's walk off home run.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
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Speaker 17 (33:29):
Game over.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Freddie Freeman walks it off with a home run the
straightaway center field. The Dodgers win it and they take
a two to.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
One read in the World Series. Is that Dan Shulman
with the call? Work with him?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I think it's Dan what a professional though great broadcaster,
and that was a good call. But you could tell
both announcers are kind of fooled because of the height
of the ball, like it's drifting. You know it's back,
it's high fly, and then all of a sudden you
see it and it's starting to carry, and then it's gone.
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play of the day. Let's see Frank in La Hi, Frank,
how you feeling today?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Man?
Speaker 13 (34:43):
My voice is shot, but I feel great.
Speaker 14 (34:46):
What a w man.
Speaker 13 (34:48):
The fans were just willing the team to get to
the finish line. Everybody was trying to get up. I literally,
I'm on two hours of sleep. I'm in route to Lax.
I gotta take a flight to Philly, but so jacked up.
I feel like I took a shot of red Bull
or something. It was phenomenal feeling. Dodger's gonna close this
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out at home.
Speaker 18 (35:10):
It was just the.
Speaker 13 (35:12):
Fans were kind of getting frustrated with Thoughtani getting walked
so much. But what a performance. Nine times on base Man.
Dodgers love them.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Thank you, Frank, Safe travels Aiden in Utah, Hi Aiden,
welcome back, yea.
Speaker 10 (35:28):
And good morning.
Speaker 17 (35:29):
How are you good?
Speaker 13 (35:31):
Listen?
Speaker 10 (35:32):
Yeah, I don't normally watch baseball. You know, I've been
to a few regular season games. They're really fine to
watch in person, but every October comes around, play MLB
playoffs is one of the most exciting things to watch.
But last night reminded me why I don't watch baseball.
Eleven straight scoreless innings and I'm sitting there at one
point thirty in the morning. Beyonest, that sleep. I'm out
(35:52):
on the couch watching it. I mean, what am I
doing right now? And that is reminding me? Oh wait,
I don't watch baseball.
Speaker 18 (36:00):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
I'm going to sleep all right.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I love extra ending postseason baseball. I think it's great
and it's not equal to playoff hockey. Is that there's
no sport better than that when it comes to the
playoffs with tension, game on the line, and all it
takes is one shot, that's it.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Matt in Salt Lake. Hey, Matt, what's on your mind?
Speaker 14 (36:25):
Hey, thanks for taking my call down the first time,
very very long time. I appreciate the show. I think
the unsung hero of last night's game was the organ player.
I don't think the organization has a bullpen for the
organ player, but the organ player was on point all
(36:45):
night long. And then as the inning started drifted together,
I think there was a call that was being questioned,
he brought out the song never Ending Story because of
how long the game was going, and I just I
at that late at night, I just started laughing. It
was a great moment.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
All right, Well, thank you, Matt. I don't know if
anybody's going to give the organist credit.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 8 (37:09):
The organist for the La Dodgers is Deeter Rule, who
has been on the Dan Patrick Show just like a
year a year and a half ago.
Speaker 18 (37:16):
Deeter Rule.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
But didn't he get in trouble? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:19):
That was burning down the house he played, and there
was a fire that was outside of Chavez Ravine.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
I believe he's good.
Speaker 8 (37:26):
Yeah, a car was on fire.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he's good. Yeah he played
burning down the house. Uh Mad, Matt, you know, I
think I think an organist has been thrown from a
game before.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I think it might have been in Chicago.
Speaker 8 (37:41):
Yeah, it was a Cubs organist playing three blind mice.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Yes, and the I think I think the umpire ran him. Guys,
don't appreciate that. Matt in Ohio, Hi, Matt, what's on
your mind?
Speaker 7 (37:57):
Hey, guys, good to talk to you again. I had
a comment and a.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Question for you.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
First off, that's the first time I heard that Shulman call.
If you play it again, it sounds like he almost
wants to say Freddie. There's a pause, Yeah, another another
F word and then freeman. Yeah, but that's uh yeah,
that sounded like that, but he didn't.
Speaker 14 (38:20):
He held off.
Speaker 7 (38:21):
And the question I had for you is off topic
with the re emergence, like the running game in the NFL,
Dan went, do you think it came down to a
certain player or when do you think that kind of
started the whole reemergence? And was it Saquon, was it
something before that? Was it Derrick Henry?
Speaker 2 (38:43):
But well, I'm going to take a victory lap on
this because I'd been saying for years when everybody was passing,
that somebody was eventually going to start running because the
players on the defense and the defensive line, they weren't
built to stop the run. You wanted everybody to be quick.
You want to have edge rushers get to the quarterback.
You had to put pressure on the quarterback. And I said,
(39:03):
at some point, somebody's going to go, why don't we
just get good offensive line. We got a running back,
and we're going to run right at these defenses. And
that's what's happened. Derrick Henry, Saquon Barkley, McCaffrey is more
of a you know, a Swiss army knife. But you're
starting to see more and more teams. You had a
(39:23):
couple of teams that ran for over two hundred yards.
I think three teams ran for over two hundred yards
this weekend. But it's your defenses are built differently. You
don't have that run stopper. I mean the Cowboys of
course do, but you don't have that run stopper. And
I think as a result, you're seeing you know, the
Chiefs did this with Pacheco. They were running the ball,
(39:47):
playing defense with Patrick Mahomes as your quarterback. Yeah, Pauling.
Speaker 8 (39:50):
In twenty sixteen, NFL teams ran for one hundred and
eight yards per game. That was the lowest sense I
mean basically ever, really ever, and last year is up
to one hundred and twenty yards per game. Yeah, quite
a bit up.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
And I still look for baseball to get a pitching
park and you have you invest in your pitching and
you do speed in defense like the Cardinals did back
in the eighties. Somebody might do that because you're playing
half your games at home, which will be a pitcher's park,
You play defense and you run. I know the analytics
will probably say what are you doing, just like the
(40:26):
analytics probably said in the NFL, what are you doing
running everybody's It's like the three point shot was the
forward pass in the NFL, and now all of a sudden,
we're getting back to taking two point jumpers.
Speaker 15 (40:37):
Yes, Tom, you can create a park to match your roster,
but with all the turnover, it's not like yesteryear where
players would be on the same team ten fifteen years.
So you do run the risk grab all of a
sudden a couple of years, you're not that team that's
speedy with the great the pitching. And now you just
kind of screwed yourself with am.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Well, it doesn't fit you.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
You're still building your team based off that kind of player.
That's who you're drafting. You're drafting pitching, you're drafting speed.
They basically said that base is there to steal. They
even let you wear these gloves that are a little
bit larger. I don't know why baseball allows this, but
these sliding gloves you're probably getting a couple extra inches
there as you're sliding in the bases are bigger. Much
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Baseball say, we're going to measure your mittens that you're wearing. Now,
Steve Young, the Hall of Famer, will join us, Reggie
Miller will stop by, and Kevin Malar from the Major
League Baseball Network, who was at the game,
You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
There are a lot of people in Los Angeles doing
the following this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
That was a long game.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Late night, six hours, thirty nine minutes, one of the
greatest World Series games that maybe you didn't see. That's
one of those where you go, I'm going to be
watching SportsCenter in the morning and one of the great
home runs of all time that I don't know how
many people got to see Freddie Freeman go deep to
win that game last night. All right, come on in,
(00:34):
stay a while, we'll dissect this. Kevin Malar of Major
League Baseball Network was there. We'll let him sleep in
for a little bit. He'll join us later. Reggie Miller
will stop by as well, and Steve Young, the Hall
of Fame quarterback as well. Eight seven seven three DP
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of the Day. All of that coming up. So the
Dodgers beat the Blue Jays on Freddie Freeman's home run
(01:37):
in the eighteenth as they lead two games to one.
Can we play what it sounded like?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Marvin?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Do we have the call? On AM five seventy, Little
delivers Freeman. It's one high in the air, straightaway center
field parcel, petal walk.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Freddie Freeman missed a World Series ends the marathon at midnight.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Freddie Freeman is one of four players with multiple walk
off home runs in the postseason, so David Ortiz, Bernie
Williams in Carlos, Korea, but Freddie is the only player
in baseball history with multiple walk off home runs in
the World Series. Shoho tani Oh, by the way, had
two home runs two doubles. They also walked him five times,
(02:30):
four intentionally. And that's one of those moments where, and
we were talking about this earlier this morning, we're actually
watching the greatest baseball player of all time. We're watching
him in real time. It's happening right now. It's not
one of those Hey, you should have seen that guy play.
He's the greatest baseball player.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Of all time.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Babe Ruth did something, but he didn't do it together.
He didn't do a combination. That doesn't mean he couldn't
have done it, but he didn't do it. He was
a great pitcher, best pitcher in the game, and then
all of a sudden decided to be the greatest hitter.
Show Hey Otani with what he and he pitches tonight,
So you're going to have that performance where you walk
(03:12):
him four times. And I talked about this when the
series started. If you don't have left handed pitching against
the Dodgers, you're in trouble because you don't have you
got Freddie Freeman and show Hey Otani, and if you
don't have somebody that you can bring in and go,
I can.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Get that guy out.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
They've gotten to the point where he's getting Bond's treatment
and I want you to pitch in shame.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
If you're going to intentionally walk him.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I want you to throw the four pitches that look
silly because you don't want to face him. I don't
want it to be I had we're going to walk
him and I point him to first base. Nope, I
want you to pitch in shame. I want you to
acknowledge that you can't get him out, and you throw
those four pitches. But I mean one of the home runs,
I went, oh.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
What do you How could you possibly put it anywhere
near that? And they did, and I'm thinking, oh, my goodness,
so Ohtani made him pay. Freddie Freeman made him pay.
There was one nervous moment there when Clayton Kershaw was
in with the bases loaded.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I just was like, just get the out, go, sit down,
don't pitch anymore, and maybe you win the World Series.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But they would cut away to his wife.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Oh, you talk about the ebb and flow, the highs
and lows, and you rarely think about when you're the
family is there watching this, Oh, just get off the mount.
That's all I could think of. But watching that last night,
or at least as long as I could. You're watching
the best player in baseball history.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I know people are going to say, well, what about
Babe Ruth. Babe was a better hitter. But what he
is doing at the same time, And imagine, just imagine
if he goes out there tonight and pitches at five
or six innings quality baseball and everybody emptied their bullpen
like this is one of those losses. That's not just
(05:09):
one loss. You used your bullpen, you realize you can't
pitch to Otani, and all of a sudden you're gonna
face him on the mound. That was That was monumental
I think last night. But up two games to one.
I know it's only one game. All it takes is,
you know, a couple of breaks going your way, but
that one, that one's stinging, and you got to turn
(05:32):
around and go back out there and play again tonight.
And then the next game is on Wednesday. So these
pitching staffs are really going to be taxed. But that's
where if you get Yamamoto, who gives you a complete game,
if Otani can give you five or six innings here,
you have an incredible advantage here. All right, See, let's
pull question for hour one.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Yeah, you know, when you look at his at bats
last night, show Heotani, he had a double, a home run,
a double, a home run. He was then intentionally walked
four straight times and then walk the fifth time.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
That's a hell of a night.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, when you're talking about let me see. So he
walked five times four intentionally, reach base nine times nine
times in the game, the only player to be walked
intentionally four times in a postseason game since they started
tracking this in nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
It's fight.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Paul was just saying, if you took that series of
at bats from showho Tony, just from last night, that's
good enough to win a World Series MVP.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
For the whole series, So the whole thing. If you
had two doubles and two home runs.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Well, he won the National League the NLCS MVP based
off one game, and he might win this MVP. Wait,
based off one game. All right, we'll get to your
phone calls coming up. What was the poll question, Seaton.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Well, we could start with intentional walks since you got
there right there. Intentional walks are super smart or super lame.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, no, I get it, but I want you to
pitch in shame that you can't get that guy out.
I want you to acknowledge with four pitches out of
the strike zone that I can't get him.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
You need to be humiliated that way. I'm all for
speeding the game up, I really am, but I'm not
for just we choose to put him up for no,
throw the four pitches in shame.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Throw them.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yes, Either that or you must walk up to the
hitter and escort him to first base, like you know,
you're going out there for homecoming and on the football field,
and you must have him hold your arm and you
escort him to first base. We must shame you, Yes,
we must be shamed.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
We must do it. Shame you.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
All right, we get to phone calls coming up. There
was football last night, and you probably saw why Patrick
Mahomes is the leading candidate for the MVP. Now you
see the Chiefs full strength for the most part. Now,
granted you didn't have Jadon Daniels that would have made
obviously a little bit more of an impact. But you
(07:54):
have Rashi Rice there and that's a big difference. So
you get Xavier Worthy and Rashi Rice now all of
a sudden, and you got to deal with you speed.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Jason kelce doesn't have to do much. His role is
Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
His role is more of a like Gronk late in
his Patriots career, where Brady only wanted him there for
the postseason and in the red zone. That's it, and
maybe that's what you get out of Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
But watching last.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Night, he did have a touchdown, but that's not what
their offense is really predicated on. It's still I got
guys that I can make plays with now.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
And Mahomes was great. He was He's great.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
He keeps plays alive and it's one of those you
see these younger players trying to do that. They're just
not as well equipped as Mahomes is. You can keep
it alive and then you have to all of a
sudden say all right, I'm gonna call this off or
I might throw it away, I might run for a
little bit. He's not scrambling, he's just keeping it alive.
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And I think there's a big and I'm going to
talk to Steve Young about that next hour. Keeping a
play alive but also not scrambling around and trying to
hold the ball for five or six seconds. That's when
you get in trouble. That's when you take sacks. But
watching Mahomes, and I know it's not the same thing
as Otani, but you are watching something incredibly special. He's
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not going to be the greatest quarterback of all time
unless he wins more Super Bowls than Brady or is
equal to Brady. It's kind of what we did to Lebron.
You know, he's not passing Michael Therefore he's not going
to be greater in people's minds. But you're watching Mahomes
play a position, the toughest position in all the sports
to play, and playing it differently than anybody else in
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the league, and he is the one great. He is
Marianna Rivera when it comes to quarterbacking and closing out
a game, keeping a play alive, all of those great things. Now,
is he been roughed up embarrassed in a couple of
Super Bowls? He has, But when you see him play
at a very high level, it's a treat because I
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can go back to seeing Joe Namath play, Johnny Uniteds
late in his career, all of those quarterbacks, Bart Starr,
you know, guys in the sixties, and to see the
transformation of the quarterbacking position.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
To watch the evolution of that, it's great.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And I got into this business because I loved watching it,
covering it, being around it. And to watch o'tani last night,
to watch Patrick Mahomes last night, what a treat, an
absolute treat. All right, So we'll have phone calls coming up.
The football game last night. Not a lot to recap
with that. But the Chiefs are now five and three
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and the Commanders, you know, you start to look and
you go, okay, we can't afford too many of those losses. Now,
that's a loss that we expected even with Jaden Daniels.
But you get to the halfway point, trade deadline. I
think the Bills are going to be involved in the
trade deadline. I think Dallas is going to try to be.
There's a couple of teams that are buying. I'm not
sure who's selling. That'll be interesting as well. All right,
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let me see anything else that needs to be brought up.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
Yes, Paul, I was thinking about Mahomes his stats the
past couple of years. His stats have been different than
this first five years. His first five years as a starter,
he averaged three hundred and ten passing yards per game.
The past three years, he's averaging two hundred and sixty
passing yards per game. His quarterback rating is the same.
His efficiency is completion. You just remove Tyreek Hill. They
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don't have the deep threat or they don't try to
go deep as much. But you know, it's less spectacular,
but it's just as efficient.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
But he changed defenses because they decided they weren't going
to give up the big play. They were going to play,
you know, a shell kind of defense that won't let
you get those big plays. Each of Kansas City's five
wins this season have been by thirteen or more points.
Last year, they won a total of three games by
thirteen or more. So it's just a different Kansas City team.
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But that that's kind of the beauty of Andy Reid
and Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
How are we going to beat you?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Okay, we're going to be explosive to then all of
a sudden, we're just going to be methodical to then
we're going to be a defense and run first team
to now we're back to being explosive with those receivers.
But the average margin of victory in Week eight was
eighteen and a half points.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
That's the most we've had.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
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Speaker 9 (12:51):
Good morning, Dan Dennit, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 10 (12:54):
That wasn't at the game here on the West.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
Coast last night. I was up until eleven fifty pm
watching it like a whole baseball game, even after Monday night.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Football ended, which was just epic.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
My question is this, like you've talked about show Heyo Tani.
Freddie Freeman being the only Major League baseball player ever
with two World Series walk off home runs. That's amazing
in itself. But what's a more important home run to
Dodger history Kurt Gibson's home run or Freddie Freeman's home
run last night?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Oh Gibson, Yeah, because Gibbey's I mean, he's going against Eckersley,
one of the great closers of all time. You're a
big underdog and all of a sudden you set the
tone for the It won the World Series. It wasn't
a walk off, it was Game one, but he limped
up there I think it was O two, and you know,
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all of a sudden, Eckersley's going to throw that back
door slider and Gibby's going down. But now that that,
to me was more important because the Dodgers weren't favored
these This Dodger team has been had been big favorites here,
and that Dodger team did not have the firepower against
the Oakland A's didn't compare. You had Oral Hersheizer, and
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you had a group of players that kind of somehow
figured it out to some of the parts. But I
would say Gibby Gibby's will live in infamy. I mean
that that one's and it's a great call as well.
I don't believe what I just saw, Like, oh my god, awesome.
And by the way, Gibby Gibby is suffering with Parkinson's.
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And I talked to David Wells when we were in Tahoe,
and I waited until some of this information got public,
so I'm not speaking out of turn, but did talk
to him, and he goes hunting with Gibby. They own
a hunting lodge I think in Michigan, and you know,
he says that he's struggling, but he's still Gibby. He's
still competitive, he's still you still see that fire.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
In him, but he's been struggling.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Uh So, David went into detail talk a lot about Gibbee,
and he did say, you know, don't say anything about this.
I did appreciate him sharing with me because I always
had that great appreciation. I go back to Gibbey when
he was in Michigan State as a wide receiver and
I remember him, Yeah, Poling.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
There's a bit of a comparison Apples and Oortes, Kirk
Gibson and Freddie Freeman. Kirk Gibson was a great player
for Detroit for a decade I think before he got
to the Dodgers, and then when he got to the
Dodgers MVP the World Series. I bet there's people who
just associate him as a Dodger because that's his biggest moments.
Freddy Freeman made four or five All Star teams, probably
five All Star teams with Atlanta. But then he's now
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he's on this bigger stage with the Dodgers and doing
World Series stuff. Twenty years from now, you be like, oh,
that great Dodger player, Freddie Freeman. He also played a
little bit with the Braves ten years.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And go back to Otawi where people are going to
forget that he played for the Angels and he won
two MVPs there, but he never got these opportunities. You
want to cement yourself in history, do it on the
big stage, do it in the postseason. And that's why
Mike Trout never got that opportunity. And Mike Trout will
be one of those guys where people go, how many MVPs,
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how many World Series, how many what are you doing
in the postseason. It may not be fair because it's
only one player, but you know we said for years
the Angel should have traded Mike Trout, and you know,
he was a great soldier. I don't think he ever
asked out, granted, and he's getting paid four hundred million dollars,
but O'tani knew that he needed to be on a
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bigger stage. He knew greatness and that's what you're seeing.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, Marvin, is.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
Freddy Freeman going to be in the same category as
maybe like a David Ortiz, where the postseason heroics put
you in the Hall of Fame along with the great
regular season All Star games and things like that.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I'd have to look at his numbers.
Speaker 11 (16:50):
He's got an MVP.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I think, yeah, yeah, let's take a break. We'll take
a break and look at that just getting started. More
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Speaker 2 (18:31):
Looking at Freddie Freeman's career, I'd say he's on the
doorstep of being a Hall of Famer. If you have
twenty four hundred hits, got three hundred, just under three seventy.
As far as home runs, let's say he ends up
with four hundred home runs, you end up with How
old is he?
Speaker 8 (18:50):
He's uh thirty five years old?
Speaker 13 (18:53):
Who?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Five All Star appearances with Atlanta four straight and four
years with the Dodgers. He's got an MVP, he's got
a three hundred batting average for his career.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
The postseason is a big boost.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's a walk in Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah, yeah, Marvin.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
I think long gone are the days of I need
to hit this number and I'll get into the Hall
of Fame. I think it's were you at the peak
of your career? Like, how good were you at your peak?
Speaker 14 (19:21):
Well?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I think having the World Series MVP helps a lot,
and having big moments in the World Series.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I do think that we like round numbers.
Speaker 14 (19:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
It's like Dale Murphy had three hundred and ninety eight
home runs, Barry Sanders I think had ninety nine touchdown. Like,
we like to get round numbers here. They're just easier
to remember, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 11 (19:41):
Yeah, but that's important if you don't have any postseason success.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (19:45):
Like I don't know how many home runs David Ortiz has,
but I know in the biggest moments in the play
in the postseason he came up big.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Gold Glove winner as well, had one of those. So yeah,
probably going to be an MVP or probably going to
be a Hall of Yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
If Freddy Freeman weren't batting behind two spots behind Babe Ruth,
you'd probably win another World Series MVP. You know, Yamamoto
and Otani are gonna be one and two for the
World Series MVP. And Freeman got the home run.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, it's one of those that we're going to remember
his home run and we might actually forget that a
guy got on base nine times, intentionally walk four times.
He had two home runs as well, and it was Hey,
remember the Freddie Freeman walk off home run in eighteen innings?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yes, Todd, how.
Speaker 15 (20:29):
Many World Series do you have to win as a
starter if you didn't necessarily do anything that huge in
the World Series or in the postseason, like we owe
the quarterback once they say two Super Bowls were putting
them in the Hall of Fame, So how does that
work in baseball like a five, six eight would be.
Is there any way of calculating that if you like
the way you do with a quarterback in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
No, No, because I you know, even when you look
at voters, I don't know if anybody brings up Ted
Williams not winning World Series, Barry Bond's not winning World Series.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
So it.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But their greatness. They didn't need that, they were that great.
But I think some players. When you do have that,
that can put you over the edge, that can put
you right on the doorstep of the Hall of Fame.
But I with what Freddie Freeman has done with two
different teams, being an All Star that many times, a
World Series MVP, winning a couple of World Series and
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having a couple of big moments. Having numbers, I still
think you have to have like a ballpark number. Now
it's not five hundred home runs. I think if you
have four hundred, and you're gonna have four hundred home runs,
and you're gonna have twenty seven twenty six hundred hits
and you have his resume, then you're gonna go into
the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Freddy Freeman also has seven career home runs in the
World Series that puts him tied for tenth all time,
and most of the guys ahead of them played at
least fifty years ago, you know, Mantle, Ruth Bearra, Louke Gerig,
even Reggie Jackson has ten. But Freddy Freeman's done it
in only sixty four played appearance. He is the highest
World Series home run ratio.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Christin Syracuse, Hi, Chris, good morning, what's on your mind?
Speaker 16 (22:07):
Hey, Thanks Dan, Hey, I want to comment on the
baseball and also you know the NBA's gambling report last week.
I think that will definitely have an impact on the
severity of the Ravens upcoming punishment for their injury report misstep.
And interesting in the baseball Freddie Freeman born in Canada
and played for the Canadian national team and after last
night's game with Shohy pitching tonight, Man, the ratings are
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going to be unbelievable and I believe this postseason Showhey
had a stretch where he was one for twenty one
from the plate, but with the way he's hitting now
and last night the Jays walked him five times and
that resulted in zero Dodger runs. You wonder if for
this game and maybe for the rest of the series,
they're going to walk them every time. And I'm sure
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that the MLB and the networks are dreading that possibility,
and not just for tonight, but long term because some
of us, including me, we tune in to watch him.
He's kind of like the Caitlin Clark of baseball.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You want to see great players have the opportunity to
be great, and that was always disappointing when bonds would
come to the plate and they just put him on
you know, when you're walking him intentionally and he walks
over two hundred times in a season. It's just bad
optics entertainment. You want to see Otani swing the bat.
But there's one pit. He had a home run last
night on a pitch and I'm thinking, in a in
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a million years, going over the scouting report, don't put it.
Don't put the ball there, out over the plate, don't
let him extend.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Now he's going to beat you.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
He can go opposite, he can go dead center, he
can go obviously you know, take it to right field.
I'm just amazed sometimes the pitches that Judge and Otani
get where you just go, How could you possibly come
even close to that location. I'm going to make you
chase something, and if I don't, then I've walked you.
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But I can't go up there and go I'm going
to pitch to you and then give you a pitch
where you go. Like Suresers pitch to him was up
you know, it didn't have the volac. If you're throwing
ninety nine there, then okay, maybe you get him to
pop it. Up. But if you're going to throw that
inside to him and it doesn't have movement or it
doesn't have velocity at ninety nine, he's gonna take you deep.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
But the other one out over the plate.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I went, oh, my goodness, you deserve to be you know,
watching him circle the basis uh Buddha in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Hi Buddha, what a DP. That was exhausting.
Speaker 17 (24:38):
But every day it's the World Series, So let's go fritzy,
Uh Dan. I found myself a little Dodgers bar in
the heart of San Francisco and spent all six and
a half hours streaming and watching the midnight marathon. And
I'm calling in today Dan to celebrate and praise William
Kleine Junior, the third Jilia Hollywood line. I mean, that
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dude was so nasty, Dan, Like he wasn't wasting any
time either. It seemed like as soon as he caught
the ball from will Smith, he was like already winding up.
It was riveting and like, no matter what happens in
the series, he will never pay for a beer in
La again. I also want to give a special shout out,
Dan to the Atlanta Braves for letting Freddie freaking Freeman
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walk and become a Dodgers postseason legend. And then I
have one question before I go for all of you
in the studio. I want to know exactly who was
up and got to see Freddie's walk off live.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
M Nobody, nobody, nobody, Hell no.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I think maybe the tenth inning.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That's where we That's where you were like, hey, could
we have a runner start the tenth inning?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Oh, that's right, we don't do that in the postseason.
It was great.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
You know, that's playoff baseball, tension matchups and big time plays,
big time plays. Adam in La Hi, Adam, what's on
your mind?
Speaker 18 (26:06):
Oh, good morning, mister Patrick. I don't know how I'm
gonna get through work today except my my adrenaline going
to carry me through. I'm just there's so many layers
to go through that game last night with you said
at Clayton Kirsch's wife getting to see him going with
the bases loaded. I mean, all of the Tider fans
are just cringing like, no, not again. Hopefully this doesn't
end bad. You know, I know you've seen it in
(26:28):
a million times, so it's just like you wanted the
best for that guy, and like like Boody just said,
Joe Kline and you got Henriquez and all these unsung heroes.
So many great plays in the field by Tommy Edmond
and great throws by pay after Hernandez. I mean, there's
just so many layers. And then you get to show
Hayes game and you get to four intentional walks, which
is a little stut of the day. One left and
(26:50):
Andre Dawson record for five intentional walks back on May
twenty second, nineteen ninety. There you go, Paulieu but again
then Freddy Freeman again. Thanks Atlanta Breay is what a gift.
But yeah, just an amazing day to be a Dodger's
day and hopefully we can carry it through to get
another world championship. And yeah, just an amazing feeling and
hopefully I don't policy but my death today.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, if you're the Dodgers, you can thank the Red Sox,
you can thank the Atlanta Braves, you can thank the
angels for helping you bring together this great lineup that
you have. Dave in Arkansas, Good morning, Dave.
Speaker 19 (27:25):
I don't know if I want to be called Pittsburgh Dave.
Speaker 17 (27:30):
You know, first off, prayers.
Speaker 19 (27:32):
Up for Jamaica. What's about to happen down there with
the hurricane is as off the charts. But I was
so embarrassed Sunday night watching that football game, not so
much for the play. I mean, it was getting bad.
I understood that I'm making dinner, I'm watching the football,
(27:54):
but to hear go Pack, go take over. I'm still
gonna call of Hinsfield, but take over that stadium. I
was so embarrassed. That does not happen. We travel, we
go to all the other stadiums, we take over other towns.
I could not believe what I was hearing. And I
(28:15):
do have a question about what do you think they
should do with the trade line deadline? It seems like
they need defensive help, but they don't have any offensive
help to give away. And if they try to get
offensive help, I don't know if anybody wants. I mean,
outside of tj WY, you can say, but that's just
not going to happen.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
But what do they do? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
You spent your money, DK Metcalf. You wanted to improve
that offensive line. Since you had a forty year old
as your quarterback. We thought the defense was going to
be formidable. That's been kind of the surprising part for me.
John in Minnesota, Hi, John, Hey.
Speaker 13 (28:54):
Dan, I had a question, where does O'Kane's contract rank as.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
Far as like ROI right, I mean.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
Him, it's got him and Mahomes and then nobody else.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Well, I think Mahomes is one of the greatest bargains
in sports contract history because at the time I remember
I remember that day and people were like, can you
believe they gave him a half a billion dollars. I said,
it's going to be a bargain. That guy will be
a bargain, and he is a bargain.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
It took a little while, but you saw what the
return on your investment is with Otani, and I saw
something where somebody said, the Dodgers have already gotten their
return on that contract, the ROI return on investment. I mean,
that's that's a lot of money. But if you're talking
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about what he does here in Japan, I don't know
how you're able to look at that and go, Okay,
we can break this down and we know exactly what
they paid and what their return is. I don't know
what that return is, what that return looks like. You know,
you still have a great fan base. It's not like
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you're going to bring people out and it's the Marlins.
You know, it's the Dodgers. They're going to come out,
you know, local TV ratings revenue that way. Also, what
this means in Japan, what this could mean for a pipeline.
I mean Yamamoto came over so he could play with
Sho Hey Otani and look at.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
His value here.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
So maybe you get that Japanese pipeline where these players
are going to want to come over and since there's
no salary cap, they're going to want to play with Otani.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
Yeah, Pauli Otani has one of the more unique contracts
in baseball history. This year, he's going to make two
million dollars. It's like an NFL running back. He is
going to make two million dollars per season the next
seven seasons. Then when he turns thirty nine, he makes
sixty eight million dollars per year basically after his career
is over. For the next nine years, it's all deferred,
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which makes it that sports business journal article you're talking about.
All the money they Owetani, they owe Otani the Dodgers
hold so they're earning interest on it. They're not paying
him yet, they're holding it and it gets to him
way at a later date.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah, because he has so much money coming in from
endorsements off the field that the two million dollars salary,
he's fine with that. And the Dodgers created a business
model here that maybe I don't know if the Mets
did this with Sodo, but if you get somebody to
take deferred money, and if I'm a fan and I'm like,
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this isn't we're paying Bobby Benia. If you're a Mets
fan for that contract, you're gonna be like, hey, we're
paying Shoheo Tani sixty eight million dollars and he's retired.
If you're a Dodger fan, you got that kind of money,
you got that financial backing. You don't care, doesn't bother,
it doesn't hurt your team when he's retired. It's not like, oh,
(31:56):
we got a dead cap hit or something. It's we're
paying this guy. You know, we gave him a golden parachute.
But he's got a lot more baseball left to be played.
All right, we'll take a break play of the day.
Go figure, what do you think that'll be?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
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Speaker 14 (32:28):
The day.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
This is the play of the day.
Speaker 9 (32:35):
Check this out.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Little delivers Freeman wh's one high in the.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Air, straightaway center field, Marshal Petal walk.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Freddie Freeman miss the World Series ends the marathon midnight.
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Jays call of Freddie Freeman's walk off home run.
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Speaker 17 (33:29):
Game over.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Freddie Freeman walks it off with a home run the
straightaway center field. The Dodgers win it and they take
a two to.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
One read in the World Series. Is that Dan Shulman
with the call? Work with him?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I think it's Dan what a professional though great broadcaster,
and that was a good call. But you could tell
both announcers are kind of fooled because of the height
of the ball, like it's drifting. You know it's back,
it's high fly, and then all of a sudden you
see it and it's starting to carry, and then it's gone.
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play of the day. Let's see Frank in La Hi, Frank,
how you feeling today?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Man?
Speaker 13 (34:43):
My voice is shot, but I feel great.
Speaker 14 (34:46):
What a w man.
Speaker 13 (34:48):
The fans were just willing the team to get to
the finish line. Everybody was trying to get up. I literally,
I'm on two hours of sleep. I'm in route to Lax.
I gotta take a flight to Philly, but so jacked up.
I feel like I took a shot of red Bull
or something. It was phenomenal feeling. Dodger's gonna close this
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out at home.
Speaker 18 (35:10):
It was just the.
Speaker 13 (35:12):
Fans were kind of getting frustrated with Thoughtani getting walked
so much. But what a performance. Nine times on base Man.
Dodgers love them.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Thank you, Frank, Safe travels Aiden in Utah, Hi Aiden,
welcome back, yea.
Speaker 10 (35:28):
And good morning.
Speaker 17 (35:29):
How are you good?
Speaker 13 (35:31):
Listen?
Speaker 10 (35:32):
Yeah, I don't normally watch baseball. You know, I've been
to a few regular season games. They're really fine to
watch in person, but every October comes around, play MLB
playoffs is one of the most exciting things to watch.
But last night reminded me why I don't watch baseball.
Eleven straight scoreless innings and I'm sitting there at one
point thirty in the morning. Beyonest, that sleep. I'm out
(35:52):
on the couch watching it. I mean, what am I
doing right now? And that is reminding me? Oh wait,
I don't watch baseball.
Speaker 18 (36:00):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
I'm going to sleep all right.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I love extra ending postseason baseball. I think it's great
and it's not equal to playoff hockey. Is that there's
no sport better than that when it comes to the
playoffs with tension, game on the line, and all it
takes is one shot, that's it.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Matt in Salt Lake. Hey, Matt, what's on your mind?
Speaker 14 (36:25):
Hey, thanks for taking my call down the first time,
very very long time. I appreciate the show. I think
the unsung hero of last night's game was the organ player.
I don't think the organization has a bullpen for the
organ player, but the organ player was on point all
(36:45):
night long. And then as the inning started drifted together,
I think there was a call that was being questioned,
he brought out the song never Ending Story because of
how long the game was going, and I just I
at that late at night, I just started laughing. It
was a great moment.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
All right, Well, thank you, Matt. I don't know if
anybody's going to give the organist credit.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 8 (37:09):
The organist for the La Dodgers is Deeter Rule, who
has been on the Dan Patrick Show just like a
year a year and a half ago.
Speaker 18 (37:16):
Deeter Rule.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
But didn't he get in trouble? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:19):
That was burning down the house he played, and there
was a fire that was outside of Chavez Ravine.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
I believe he's good.
Speaker 8 (37:26):
Yeah, a car was on fire.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he's good. Yeah he played
burning down the house. Uh Mad, Matt, you know, I
think I think an organist has been thrown from a
game before.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I think it might have been in Chicago.
Speaker 8 (37:41):
Yeah, it was a Cubs organist playing three blind mice.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Yes, and the I think I think the umpire ran him. Guys,
don't appreciate that. Matt in Ohio, Hi, Matt, what's on
your mind?
Speaker 7 (37:57):
Hey, guys, good to talk to you again. I had
a comment and a.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Question for you.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
First off, that's the first time I heard that Shulman call.
If you play it again, it sounds like he almost
wants to say Freddie. There's a pause, Yeah, another another
F word and then freeman. Yeah, but that's uh yeah,
that sounded like that, but he didn't.
Speaker 14 (38:20):
He held off.
Speaker 7 (38:21):
And the question I had for you is off topic
with the re emergence, like the running game in the NFL,
Dan went, do you think it came down to a
certain player or when do you think that kind of
started the whole reemergence? And was it Saquon, was it
something before that? Was it Derrick Henry?
Speaker 2 (38:43):
But well, I'm going to take a victory lap on
this because I'd been saying for years when everybody was passing,
that somebody was eventually going to start running because the
players on the defense and the defensive line, they weren't
built to stop the run. You wanted everybody to be quick.
You want to have edge rushers get to the quarterback.
You had to put pressure on the quarterback. And I said,
(39:03):
at some point, somebody's going to go, why don't we
just get good offensive line. We got a running back,
and we're going to run right at these defenses. And
that's what's happened. Derrick Henry, Saquon Barkley, McCaffrey is more
of a you know, a Swiss army knife. But you're
starting to see more and more teams. You had a
(39:23):
couple of teams that ran for over two hundred yards.
I think three teams ran for over two hundred yards
this weekend. But it's your defenses are built differently. You
don't have that run stopper. I mean the Cowboys of
course do, but you don't have that run stopper. And
I think as a result, you're seeing you know, the
Chiefs did this with Pacheco. They were running the ball,
(39:47):
playing defense with Patrick Mahomes as your quarterback. Yeah, Pauling.
Speaker 8 (39:50):
In twenty sixteen, NFL teams ran for one hundred and
eight yards per game. That was the lowest sense I
mean basically ever, really ever, and last year is up
to one hundred and twenty yards per game. Yeah, quite
a bit up.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
And I still look for baseball to get a pitching
park and you have you invest in your pitching and
you do speed in defense like the Cardinals did back
in the eighties. Somebody might do that because you're playing
half your games at home, which will be a pitcher's park,
You play defense and you run. I know the analytics
will probably say what are you doing, just like the
(40:26):
analytics probably said in the NFL, what are you doing
running everybody's It's like the three point shot was the
forward pass in the NFL, and now all of a sudden,
we're getting back to taking two point jumpers.
Speaker 15 (40:37):
Yes, Tom, you can create a park to match your roster,
but with all the turnover, it's not like yesteryear where
players would be on the same team ten fifteen years.
So you do run the risk grab all of a
sudden a couple of years, you're not that team that's
speedy with the great the pitching. And now you just
kind of screwed yourself with am.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Well, it doesn't fit you.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
You're still building your team based off that kind of player.
That's who you're drafting. You're drafting pitching, you're drafting speed.
They basically said that base is there to steal. They
even let you wear these gloves that are a little
bit larger. I don't know why baseball allows this, but
these sliding gloves you're probably getting a couple extra inches
there as you're sliding in the bases are bigger. Much
(41:18):
Baseball say, we're going to measure your mittens that you're wearing. Now,
Steve Young, the Hall of Famer, will join us, Reggie
Miller will stop by, and Kevin Malar from the Major
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