October 31, 2024 • 40 mins
Dan takes some calls and gives the Dodgers credit for their work at the trade deadline this season. And former Reds 1B Joey Votto drops by to break down what we saw last night at Yankees Stadium.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's our two on this Thursday. Congrats to the Dodgers
winning the World Series, eighth World Series title and the
Yankees collapsing in the fifth inning and five nothing. Then
it's five to five in the fifth inning, and then
things changed dramatically. You could feel the air being sucked
out of Yankee Stadium. You got Garrett Cole, he's cruising.
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We're up fives. Nothing, we can get out of this inning.
All you gotta do is cover first. All you got
to do is catch that fly. All you got to
do is throw the ball to thirty. And then you
don't do any of those things, and then all of
a sudden, the Dodgers go h. Things that make you
go h. We got a chance here, And then the
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Yankees did come back and take the lead, and then
Walker Bueller closed it out.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yes, Marvin, you could just hear the excitement getting sucked
out of the stadium when Garret Cole didn't go to
first base.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Ah. Well, it's one of those where it's a harmless
grounder or the appearance of a harmless grounder. And then
you're going, okay, atch routine, the picture comes over and
then he wait, the picture's not coming over. He's headed
towards the dugout. Rizzo's not going to get there. Mookie
Bets is flying down first base to keep the inning alive.
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him yesterday. He's in pretty good spirits and hopefully we'll
get an opportunity to see him. If not tomorrow, then
on Monday eight, seven to seven to three. DP show
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email address DP at Danpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at
DP show Football. Tonight, you got the Texans. The Texans
are getting one and a half against the Jets over
under forty two and a half for entertainment purposes. But
that's that's an interesting number there with the Texans, because
you've got people who think the Texans are a AFC
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caliber team, winning the AFC, going to the Super Bowl,
getting to the AFC Title Game even though they lost
Stefan Diggs. But that'll be coming up tonight. Former Jets
head coach Rex Ryan will join us next hour. Joey Vado,
the former first baseman for the Reds, will join us
coming up recapping what we saw last night and in
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this series. I have said this before, I don't want
this to be a standalone moment for Aaron Judge. I
hope it's not. Yes, he did drop the ball. He
didn't play well. He hasn't batted well in the postseason.
You know, it's almost like the hitting equivalent of Clayton Kershaw,
where you want them to have these big moments. You
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get to these big moments, and Aaron Judge didn't perform
hit the home run last night, but dropped the ball literally.
And I think sho hey Otani got a Hall pass
because of the sea. He build up some credibility, a
lot of credibility with his regular season. He wasn't one
hundred percent healthy. I mean you could see that he
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was laboring even trying to run. But I do give
him credit for being out there at least giving that
probably reminder to the pitching staff for the Yankees, don't
make a mistake. I can still hit a home run.
But the rest of the lineup, certainly Freddie Freeman, they
came through Dave Roberts did a wonderful job in managing
and they win the world series. All right, pull question
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for hour two is going to be what Seaton o counter?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Well, let me get you the mean spirited results from
our one. Wow, who feels worse today? Is it Aaron Judge,
Garrett Cole, Anthony Volpi or the Los Angeles Angels.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I don't think the Angels. The Angels have felt bad
then the last few years.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah, this someone probably feels a little more tough though.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You think watching show hey win a world series? Yeah,
your neighbors in Los.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Angeles, Yeah it was that was already bad. But yeah,
and that Mike Trout is just like that.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Okay, it doesn't mean that much to me. Okay, I
don't care, all right. It means more to Aaron Judge.
I don't care. It means more to Aaron Judge.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Aaron Judge currently leading the poll with forty eight percent
of them.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I'm sorry, fifty one just ticked up. Yeah, definitely, definitely
that that's a crusher there. All right, we'll get phone
calls coming up. Operator Tyler sitting by. Good morning if
you're watching on Peacock and no we didn't wear costumes today, Todd.
Todd went against my memo that I sent out, we're
not doing costumes because if one guy does it, everybody
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has to do it. And I didn't want to get
dressed up.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
That was a shark for a little while.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
You were and you were displeased because I kind of
went against it.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, you didn't tell me you were doing it. After
I told you we're not just dressing up.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I meant, well, like for it to be a surprise,
but it ended up being going against your wishes, so
it ended up being a negative thing.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well, I don't want to get into it other than
you did it, and I was like, okay, now we
got through it.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
It was a San jose Ah sharks at least it was.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, truely, of course it was okay, So no costumes today.
But Fritzy's got his T shirt on that has his
Halloween names on it. That's that's about as halloweeny as
we're getting. What time now.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Proud of that shirt. I was very excited when we
put that together.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
All right, Well, we're happy for you as well. Levi
in Utah, Hey Levi, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Hey Dan?
Speaker 9 (05:33):
First time long Time six two twenty five. Hey, I
wanted to get your take on teams that don't have
their names on the back of their jerseys. And I
asked this because I'm watching this series with my girlfriend,
who is a big sports fan can name a lot
of players in all sports. She's talking to me about
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the game and calling a lot of the Dodgers by name,
struggling with the Yankees. So I thought of, Okay, we've
got the Yankees usc Penn State. Is it ego or
is it just tradition.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I think it's tradition. I think a lot of coaches
managers like the fact that you're really playing for the
front of the jersey, not the back. But you know
what bothers me is when you see these uniforms and
the names on the uniforms are really small, either put
them on so we can read them, or don't put
them on at all. Not the oh it's in its
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like fine print on some of these. But no, the
Yankees have always done that. I have no problem with that.
Penn State. I have no problem with that Big j
in Delaware.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Hey, big Jay, Hey, good morning DP, Good morning fellows.
Just like how our mutual friend Pat says stat at
Freddie Freeman. I'm a big lifelong Braves fan, so I
was happy to see him come alive. I like to
call him, you know, just shout out Spritzy Freddie Frankenstan Freeman.
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He came alive in the pert season, six straight games
in the World Series with home runs and seven straight
games with multiple RBIs in the World Series, So shout
out to Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
You can make a case this is as good a
World Series performance in history because he ended up knocking
in twelve runs homeward in four of the five games. Like, let's,
you know, eliminate what he did with the Braves. Let's
just look at this World Series. Now you had Reggie
when he hit three home runs in one game, but
you know, to be able to just sprinkle the magic
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throughout all these games and to help your team win
because of these home runs or the RBIs, I mean,
that's his and you'd be hard pressed to find a
more impressive hitting performance in World Series history. And he
delivered and you didn't expect him to deliver. But those
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are big hits, man, big big hits. The Dodgers had
a total of twenty innings from their starting pitchers in
the World Series. That's the fewest innings from a starter
by any World Series champ in history. Stat of the Day,
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Kevin in Oregon? Hi, Kevin, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 10 (08:59):
What's up?
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Guy?
Speaker 11 (09:00):
First time? Long time? Five to nine buck ninety. So
you mentioned you're talking about the salary Caps and NFL
and they want the parody. So are the Jets just
the laughing sock of that, because it's hard enough being
a Jets fan in Oregon, let alone with what's going
on every season.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, they're being laughed at. They should be good. They
had seven wins with terrible quarterbacking play last year. The
defense was top five and I thought Rogers healthy and
that defense in that division with that schedule that you're
looking at least ten wins, if not eleven wins. You
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get Aaron Rodgers, seasoned veteran, you got a good running game,
Garrett Wilson, and I thought, you know what, they can
do some damage. Oh they did. They did a lot
of damage to a lot of reputations. And here they
are favored by one and a half tonight, Luke and
(10:04):
Charlotte is back. Hi, Luke, what's on your mind? Guys?
Speaker 12 (10:08):
How you doing so?
Speaker 9 (10:10):
Dodgers.
Speaker 12 (10:11):
I just I got a bit of a bone to
pick with this whole salary cap issue, because I mean,
some of these bad teams, you know, not necessarily bad
teams this year, because the Guardians were in there, the
Tigers were in there, but people were talking about the
Tigers salary with like eighteen million for the whole team,
and their owner is one of the ten richest owners
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in the league. And I think the blame has to
be shifted more towards complacent owners who just won't spend
more than the owners that are just as rich as
the other ones that just decide to spend because they
want to win.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, there's a bottom line to all of this.
That they're owners who will take profit over progress. Okay,
I'm going to make this amount of money. I would
want my ownership to spend the money. Maybe not like
the Mets did, but look, you're going to invest in
a team. And this goes back to what George Steinbrenner
and the Yankees did that was brilliant. They created their
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own network and they made their team musty TV. As
if you're tuning in to watch Friends and you knew
everybody in the cast. You're tuning into a baseball game
where you knew who these stars are. They could spend
the money and keep them in the uniform you had familiarity.
Occasionally they would bring in somebody free agency, as if
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Bruce Willis or Brad Pitter guest starring on Friends. I mean,
this is what the Yankees did. They haven't been able
to replicate that. They're trying, but they haven't been able
to replicate that. And the Dodgers same way. I mean,
you're in a team town full of stars. You want
to have those stars, develop those stars, showcase those stars.
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I have no problem with it. And you're right about
the Tigers. I mean, the Tigers don't have a big payroll,
and they did a wonderful aj Hinch did a wonderful
job with that line up there. Kansas City did a
really good job. I mean, that's where I say you
can make the playoffs and then after that anything can happen.
But there are teams that they can make the playoffs,
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but you have to want to make the playoffs. At
the trade deadline, you have to want to bring somebody in,
and sometimes that's where we see teams like the Reds
or the Pirates that they're selling. Paul Skeenes is not
going to end his career in Pittsburgh, just not. You know,
Elie Dela Cruz is not going to end his career
in Cincinnati, probably not, And that's disappointing from the standpoint
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of you're there to watch. It's like when you watch
a band and they're like, man, you know, nobody really
knows about how good they are, and then all of
a sudden they get big and then all of a
sudden you lose them. That's what happens with a lot
of these franchises, you know, these cities where you go,
we kind of raised you, and then all of a
sudden you're gone. We can't afford you.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Yes, Mark, back to ownership, is George Steinbrenner or was
he in the minority as far as owners that at
all costs were trying to win then make money.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well, it felt like if there was a free agent,
the Yankees were going to get him. Yeah. I never
felt that way with other franchises. Now you'd pick and
choose and somebody would say, hey, we're going to go
after that guy, Like the Giants have gone. They went
after Aaron Judge, They've gone after Carlos Correa. I mean,
they've tried to make a splash. You know, Juan Soto
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to me would be a guy that maybe the Giants
would go after. But you know, the other teams are
able to go after that guy and that guy and
that guy. And that's the difference with a lot of
these teams. I don't think it's an aberration that the
teams that spent the most ended up in the World Series.
But you know, I mean, look at the Padres. You know,
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it's not a small market team. Like they shouldn't be
viewed as that they spent a lot of money. They
should be really good. The Mets should be really good.
You spend a lot of money, and you saw all
of that with the Dodgers, with all the money they spend,
you're still relying on guys that didn't make a lot
of money. Now, Freddie Freeman gets paid and show Hey
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and Yamamoto like they got They get paid, Mookie, they
all get paid. They're MVPs and you know, well decorated.
But then you have to have those guys where they're
not making fifteen million a year, they're not making ten
million a year. They might not even be on the
roster next year. But those are the guys throughout history,
there's always one or two of those guys on every
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World Series championship team. All right, more phone calls coming up.
We'll talk to our good buddy, Joey Vado, former Reds
first baseman. See. I want his perspective on that grounder
up the first base bag with Garrett Cole and Anthony Rizzo,
because that one seemed to open up the floodgates there
and then after that it was the point of no return.
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It felt like, all right, we'll take a break and
we're back after this Dan Patrick Show.
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Speaker 2 (15:17):
More phone calls coming up, the Jets and the Texans
coming up tonight. Former Jets head coach Rex Ryan will
join us a little bit later on as well. He's
Joey Vado, the former Reds first baseman and our good buddy,
joining us once again recapping the World Series from a
first baseman's perspective. Put me in Anthony Rizzo's shoes last
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night with the dribbler up the first baseline.
Speaker 13 (15:45):
So in that situation, there's two windows, and the first
is ball off the bat, and you're reading the way
the ball's spinning towards you, the speed of it. The
most important thing to do as an infielder, not just
a first baseman, is obviously catch the ball. There's always
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a backup plan. No matter how deep you are in
the infield, whether you play third, first, it doesn't matter.
Someone has to be there to receive the ball. So
if you can't take it yourself, the first baseman has
to be there. Excuse me, if you can't take it yourself,
the pitcher has to be there to receive the ball
from you. While he was reading the ball because it
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was a ball off the end of the bat, he
needed more time to prevent a possible odd bounce. It
was almost like a Q ball shot sort of thing.
If it had been one of those odd bounces, all
of a sudden it clinks off his glove. He's embarrassed.
It's an obvious error, a non out. But if it
clinks off your glove or you catch the ball, either
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of those should have resulted in the opportunity to flip
the ball to first base. To the pitcher in that situation,
my guess is Garrett read Anthony as immediate initially attacking
the ball, and because he couldn't, because he couldn't make
that decision, he had to stay back on it. Garrett paused,
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Rizzo stayed back and there was nobody at first base.
Mooki ran as hard as he could out of the box,
which is that's what he does. He plays the game perfectly,
and nobody was there, and you get the first run
of the game.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah, it kind of had to be a perfect storm
there that in what you bring up. The spin on
the ball, I think is going to get lost with
a lot of people that they don't realize that Rizzo
couldn't attack, he couldn't come up on it. But Cole
was thinking he's going to be able to do that.
Therefore he's sort of walking towards the dugout. And then
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you got a factor in that Mooki Betch is running
as hard as he can and put even more pressure
on Rizzo.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
But that was the story of the series.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You know.
Speaker 13 (17:55):
In the very first game in the series, Glabor Torres
casually went after a ball after Shoho Tani hit a
double off the wall and it bounced off his glove,
ended up rolling into mound area. Show Hey aggressively took
third base in what was then a two to one game.
Mookie bets sacrifice flies makes it a two to two game,
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and they get through the next inning and it ends
up going to extra innings. Who's to say that that
couldn't have been Game one for the Yankees and Freddie
Freeman doesn't get the opportunity to hit a grand slam.
Then in this most recent game, several errors in that
very same inning, an unchara characteristic error from Aaron Judge
and then Anthony Bolpie what was a decision that probably
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I would imagine he probably would have liked to have
gone to second base on because in that situation, when
you go to third base, there's a crossover. You have
to make a perfect throw. And when I say there's
a crossover, the base runners heading in one direction and
the third baseman, who's typically not receiving balls in a
forced situation, has to has to catch the ball basically
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with a runner sliding into him, with a runner crossing
his path, and without a perfect, perfect throw, you're oftentimes
not going to get a force play in that situation,
especially if you have a really good runner and he
didn't make a perfect throw and ended up and ended
up exacerbating, and then the garrit Cole non cover in
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a I guess miscommunication and misread and then there's your
first run and then you know, go from there.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
But we talk about all the millions and millions and
millions of dollars that these rosters are, you know, a million.
It comes down to little things, little things, you know, fundamentals,
little things, doing things the right way.
Speaker 13 (19:52):
It's uh, you know, I don't want to be get
off my lawn, old, you know, get off my lawn guy.
But the culture I was brought up, and I'll tell
you a story from the minor leagues. So our farm
director Tim Nairing, when I was eighteen years old, we
used to run this drill and it was during instructional
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league spring training, even during the regular season, where it
would be a twenty seven out drill and you would
have to get tech twenty seven consecutive outs consecutive excuse me,
collectively with your infield outfield, with your catcher, with your pitcher,
and they would hit balls all over the outfield, all
over through the infield, ground balls, double plays, you know,
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tag ups, every and you had to do a twenty
seven time, a twenty seven outs in a row, and
if you made an error or a misplay or a
miscover in the eighteenth out or the twenty third out,
he'd scream back to zero and then.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
We would start back up from the very beginning.
Speaker 13 (20:53):
But it was the culture of perfection. It was the
culture of we are going to execute in game. If
you made an in the game, and if it was
a real blunder, you were getting either talked to or
potentially I remember occasions where you weren't playing the next
day or there was a real, you know, real fallout
from it. Now I'm not saying these teams aren't doing that.
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But I love personally, I love a game that's clean.
There's something about it that's appealing when you get to
watch a clean game, no errors, fundamentally sound, and these
are two highly professional teams. It was shocking to see
some of these errors. Anthony Rizzo is one of the
best defenders I've ever seen. Cole doesn't make these mistakes.
It was just an odd situation.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Joey Vado, former Reds first baseman. How will you remember
Aaron Judge's World series?
Speaker 13 (21:40):
I will remember it the very same way I'll remember
show Heyo Tani's. I'll remember it as a fan. I'll
remember it as a missed opportunity, as potential potential, just
being just right on the precipice of him breaking out
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and carrying this series show Hey the very same way.
He looked as good as you could possibly look, and
then he injured his shoulder. Aaron Judge looked as good
as he possibly could have looked in this most recent game,
and then they get knocked out. It would have been
such a fabulous finish to the series Game six and seven,
because Aaron finally looked locked in in this last game,
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hitting a ball to right center field, powering it almost
to the second deck, taking tough pitches.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I thought, dude, wait, you froze up here. Well we'll
work on that connection there, Fritzie with Joey froze up
there a little bit. Let me see a couple of
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phone calls in here while we wait. Christ in California,
Good morning, Chris. What's on your mind today?
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Hey, good morning Dan, danet and I just wanted to
tell you what your show means to a lot of
the listeners. I never get to catch you live because
I work swingshift, but I listened to you on Peacock,
the streaming partner. Everybody should download it. And I have
a coworker gives me sixty dollars a week gas and
we commute together. But he complains about your show, and
I told him I love the Dan Patrick show. There's
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no yelling, there's fun, you know, we laugh everything else.
So he just keeps complaining. So now you know it, Dan,
all right by myself to work listening. So listening to
your show cost me sixty dollars a week, but it's
worth every penny. And you just you guys do a lot,
and even like if I last leg of a parlay
and the Vegas Nights don't win. I just put on
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your show the second hour and I laugh and it
makes everything all right. So I just want to tell you,
thank you to all you guys.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
We really appreciate it.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
One thing, Dan, were you a parlay guy or were
you just a straight bet guy?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Straight bet guy? Straight bet never liked parlays because I
knew that that was impending death. I would always I
would always lose those parlays. And you know, parley's are
so much fun. You're like, oh, we can reduce this
to or now the line is seven and a half.
It's yeah. And then people go, like you know, Dylan
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and Shay and Irving and bad Larry on the Gambling podcast,
They're like, oh, you know, I'm going to do a
four team parlay and I'm like, that's a loser, that's
a laws. Yeah. I was always a straight up guy.
Tom in North Carolina, Carolina Tom.
Speaker 14 (24:33):
Hey DP with probably not being there, I took it
up myself to do an ITAM report. They investigate in
a possible trademark infringement on Fritzy's Halloween sports names. So
it comes to find out that silence of the CD
LAMB was used before from Todd Frick a few years ago.
(24:55):
Used It was actually used this past week on the
Fox Spree game show on Sunday. So I think season desist.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You know, well, okay, all right, got some trademark issues there.
Fritzie's trying to corral Joey Vado here. So Fritzie's not
even in the room right now. He's panicking that he's
lost Joey Vodo. Fritzie, we're running out of time. If
Joey's not able to reconnect, then you know, just tell him,
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thank you, would him another time.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
It's all good?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah? Uh Ryan and Honolulu. Hi Ryan, He.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
Happy all the way, Dan, Well.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Thank you Ryan. Good to talk to you again.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
I have some Halloween sports names that are as creepy
as called. Okay, A couple of ambient everyones here, Andre Ego,
Dolla yah NBA coach Zombie bick a staff Yeah, Dante Exorcism.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Dante ExHAM makes the show. Hey, give me one more, Ryan.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
I got four quick ones to base the ones, Jose al.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Toomb you got three left mummy Machado, two left mummy.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
All right, Well, I don't know if this is a
Kareem witch hunt. But I got DeMarcus Werewolves and lastly
soccer legend Gary Kine.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Thank you. That's Ryan and Honolulu Joey Vardo thankfully is
back with us. We were talking about how you'll remember
Aaron Judge and you brought in Sho Hey O Tani.
That missed opportunities for both of these guys on the
big stage.
Speaker 13 (27:00):
And Dan, I'm sorry the hamster jumped off the wheel
for my connection.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
I thought that show.
Speaker 13 (27:06):
Hey approaching, was approaching peak show Hey before he hurt
his shoulder. But Aaron in that last game very similarly.
You know, he looked fantastic. He hit that beautiful home
run to right center field, he took some tough pitches
for a walk. I just thought he looked great, And
I thought it was a missed opportunity for all baseball fans.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
We didn't get to see our best players at their best.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah, and then Otani, but they build up a lot
of regular season credibility with the numbers that they both
put up. You just wanted to see that kind of
showdown Showcase go seven seven games and it comes down
to Otani or Aaron Judge in the I mean that's
what we live for. We want those moments. We want
the best players on the biggest stage. How do you
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explain Freddie Freeman of getting locked in like that and
it felt like they were pitching him sort of in
the same location.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
There was never a tough matchup for him.
Speaker 13 (28:03):
He's the type of hitter that against these right handed
pitchers that don't get swings and misses, He's going to
get three quality swings off every single at bat. And
when you get three quality swings off and you're a
contact style of guy, you're going to do damage.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
I'll tell you. When I played, I used to look
at the series.
Speaker 13 (28:25):
I used to look at who was pitching, and I
used to laugh to myself, I'm going to be able
to get swings off over and over and over. And
that's how Freddie felt going into this series. There was
no bat where he was overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
But weren't they putting it in the same location where
he was taking I thought away away or if it's inside,
it's really inside. Not he could turn on it and
that was what he was driving. I mean, he was
hitting home runs. So the novice in me is looking
at that, going why are they putting that ball felt
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like in the same location.
Speaker 13 (29:02):
That was just a reflection of him executing on every
one of those opportunities. You know, when you watch a game,
notice how many pitches get missed, whether by take take
or by a foul ball or swing through. And he
got those opportunities and at a significantly higher percentage than
the average hitter was executing on it and putting in
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play for a home runner a double, and he just
he just did.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
That all theories long.
Speaker 13 (29:30):
And I think he owns the World Series home run record,
consecutive game record.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Now, yeah, six he got back. Yeah he went six.
If you go back to the Braves, that six consecutive
games that he hit a home run. Didn't homer last night.
But still, you know, they didn't even know how healthy
he was going to be. I mean, you can look
at the Dodger I mean total team effort. But I
brought this up in the first hour. I thought Dave
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Roberts did a wonderful job with his pitching staff, with
the roster, and they felt more like a smaller market team,
Like their approach felt smaller market, even though it's a
you know, billion dollar roster. And I think that's a
credit to the manager of we hustle, we make the
small plays. You know, we're going to pull the pitching
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staff together, you know, be a bullpen game. You know
all of those things. I just thought he pressed the
right buttons. I agree, I agree, But they didn't. They
didn't have a strong pitching staff, and their bullpen was
not strong either. They had some bright spots.
Speaker 13 (30:31):
Of course, trending was excellent, but to be when you
have to bring brute Buehler in t end the game,
you know, that's saying that you don't have, you know,
you don't have a class a sort of thing to
throw the last two three innings of the game. Even
on the Yankee side, you know, they didn't have an
ace bullpen arm. They had some solid guys, but they
didn't have guys that historically have been dominant.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Have you ever had a moment like MOOKI had with
fans where they were trying to take the ball out
of your.
Speaker 13 (30:58):
Glove shamefully, shamefully, there was a pop fly down the
first baseline and one of the Cincinnati Reds fans reached
over and we made contact and I didn't catch the ball,
and I grabbed his Cincinnati Red's logo and I kind
of tugged at it, like you're a Red fan, and
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I walked away. And that was the first and last
time I'd ever made contact with a fan in general.
And I called him personally and I profusely apologized and
we made you know, we had a good relationship afterwards.
But you know, I've never seen that before, and it's
I've never seen something so egregious. I thought it was
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not good, especially on the World Series stage, especially with
such a classy player as Mookie was, who's who's like
the sort of player that you would watch with your
children to teach how to play. And so, you know,
to see that, I was, I was. I was bummed out.
But no, that's never happened to me, thankfully. I would
have reacted, not in a good way, not as classy
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as Mookie reacted.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Did you ever talk to Otani was when he was
at first base? Did you do you eat?
Speaker 11 (32:10):
Like?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
What do you there's a language barrier, but do you
think he knows and can speak a whole lot better
than he leads on? Well?
Speaker 13 (32:19):
When I when I first played against excuse me, a
couple of times that I played against him were when
he was with Anaheim. So that was at the beginning
of his career and the first occasion that I crossed
paths with him.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
I said, wow, you're fast, and he goes, thank you.
I got the.
Speaker 13 (32:36):
So in my experience, we were having a Japanese English conversation.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Okay, yeah, okay, deep deep conversation. Huh you're really fast. Yes,
the great to talk to you, and uh hope, Uh,
you're doing something with your life. Now what are you
doing with your life?
Speaker 13 (32:58):
I'm clearly in environments that that don't have strong Internet connections,
so I could I could stand upgrade from there. But
I'm doing great. I been doing some surfing and been
doing some traveling. It's been great.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Then, Okay, I hope I see, you know, involved with
baseball next year. I hope that there's something if you
want to be involved in a you know, MLB network
pregame show or something. You got too much knowledge and
personality to have it not be seeing.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
That's kind of you.
Speaker 13 (33:30):
I love the game, I love talking about but more importantly,
I love to learn. And this is the sort of
sport that if you don't stay up with the current trends,
if you don't keep up with the the the industry,
you can fall behind, and I don't want to be
one of those types. Either I'm in or I'm out,
so I would imagine I'll probably take a step.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Good good, Thanks as always, Thank you, Thanks Stamp. That's
Joey Vado, former Reds First Basement. Take a break. More
phone calls coming up after this.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
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Speaker 2 (34:05):
WAP James in Virginia. Hi James, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 11 (34:12):
Oh?
Speaker 15 (34:12):
Thanks for taking my call? Brother? Happy Thursday, DP, Dan,
That salute the commanders and Happy Halloween.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Man.
Speaker 15 (34:19):
Who doesn't he love handing out candy? And officially we
are the full Scouts candy bar house of our daghbor man.
No doubt about it. Man, The Yankees really dropped the
ball man, literally and figuratively. I thought they were gonna
win the series with their pitching staff man, and they
just let they just let it go. But last night
was a perfect example on why Benton on sports is
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totally hard to do.
Speaker 13 (34:43):
Man.
Speaker 15 (34:44):
You said it right. I am a gambler myself, and
I definitely had the Yankees last night, find nothing. I
went to bed. I woke up when the Dodgers were
winning the series. I'm like, wow, what happened? Man? And
one last thing? DP. Who feels worse today? To me,
it's the Boston re sucks because Movie Bets didn't leave
them in free agency. They traded this guy. He's got
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too well sers links and it's probably a top five
player in baseball today. I always appreciate you guys half
under day. Don't need too much candy and watch out
on them sports games man. But so Luca Commanders, y'all
have a great day.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Alrighty, alrighty. That's James in Virginia. I love Mookie Bets.
I fell in love with how he played the game
when he was in Boston, and I thought, gosh, you
just don't get rid of a guy like that.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
It's crazy that they let him go crazy.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
And granted his numbers aren't the way they were in Boston,
but still he plays the game right. He's you know,
you don't worry about him, and he can play a
lot of different positions. Now does he have three World
Series titles?
Speaker 14 (35:45):
Now?
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I think he does.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Yeah. I think he's the active leader in World Series titles.
Let's see how about Scott and Jacksonville. Hi Scott, what's
on your mind today?
Speaker 7 (35:56):
Good morning Dan?
Speaker 16 (35:57):
How are you today? Ballie in its recovery yep. I
would suggest that Aaron Judge dropped fly ball last night.
We'll go down in MLB history alongside the Merkel boner
in nineteen oh eight and Fred Snodgrass dropped fly ball
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in nineteen twelve, both to eventually lose the World Series.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I don't think so. They were down three games to one.
Judges hitting or lack thereof, should be have more of
the spotlight than him dropping that ball. You can see
him at the last second, he's thinking about doubling off
the runner, and we're always taught get the first out
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before you get the second out, and he didn't, and
he felt terrible about it. He talked about it. Marvin.
Do we have Aaron Judge with the air.
Speaker 6 (37:00):
A short in the little serious stick until I die?
Speaker 14 (37:02):
Probably?
Speaker 6 (37:02):
I think, just like every other loss, you know, those
things don't go away. You know they're they're battle scars
along the way and hoping my career is over. We
got a lot of battle scars, but also a lot
of victory along the way too.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Yeah, you can hear it. You know that it will
stay with him. I don't think it's going to stay
with everybody the way it stays with him. Obviously, he
didn't hit well, and that to me, he's got to
hit well. You do make the error, but he's not alone.
I mean that that team is short on fundamentals, base running, fielding,
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making the right baseball play. That was a microcosm of
who they were. That fifth inning was a microcosm I
felt like for how they played during the regular season.
There'd be times when you'd go, nobody can turn a
double into a single like gim Carlos Stanton can. Like
these guys, they're not hustling down the back. See Mooki
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did a small thing. He never gave up on the play.
That's the important part of this. You know, Garrett Cole
didn't understand the spin on the ball. Anthony Rizzo couldn't
come in because it might have gotten by him, and
then maybe you're you know, now you've got a couple
of runs coming in, but you got to get the ball.
You have to make sure that is all routine. That's
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all spring training routine for the pitcher in the first basement.
They practice it over and over and over, and Garrett
Cole made a mistake in reading the ball and Rizzo
thought Garrett Cole was going to be there. Yeah. See.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
It's a good point though, because like the first thing
that popped in my head as soon as I saw
her and Judge dropped that ball was oh my god,
Fred Snodgrass. Oh my god, I know one person who's
happy right now.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
That's Fred snagerras Mis Snodgrass family. Yeah, the Grass. That's
a state. That's I think he's being sarcastic there. I
think you're being Oh my god, he just Fred snodgrassed.
Oh no, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
He didn't.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Dropped the ball. Say back in the day and there's
a drive to Fred Snodgrass and he saiddled, oh and
he lost it all, No.
Speaker 17 (39:07):
Can't underneath it and he dropped nineteen twelve. I play
you that that's gonna be thought of one hundred years
from now. We're gonna be talking about that other round
announcer as well, the Fred Snodgrass playing.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
He wasn't that good because his name was Fred If
he was really good at me, ah, three fingers, okay, Fred,
just catch the ball, right.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Yeah, Fred, try to You're not a star.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
All right, just catch the ball, all right, God, it's.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Not grass, do it. Come on.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
I can't believe he said that with his straight face.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
It wasn't even like a chuckle.
Speaker 15 (39:52):
After day.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
I know, I know, Fred Merkle, you know, bonehead Merkle.
But I you'd have to jar my memory with Fred
Snodgrass there. I thought he was going to say Bill Buckner,
but no, this is your it's three to one games.
If this was the seventh game and he did that,
then yes, we would be talking about that. You'd be
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talking about that one hundred and ten years from now.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Yes, Marmin and the Dodgers were playing like they were
down three to one, you know, they were playing with urgency.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Yes they did. And Dave Roberts talked about that. When
you get up, make sure you still play like you're
the underdog here with urgency. And Dave Roberts talked about that.
All right, talked a lot of baseball. We got football
coming up tonight. Why are the Jets favored by one
and a half against the Texans. We'll talk to the
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former Jets head coach Rex Ryan. Final hour
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's our two on this Thursday. Congrats to the Dodgers
winning the World Series, eighth World Series title and the
Yankees collapsing in the fifth inning and five nothing. Then
it's five to five in the fifth inning, and then
things changed dramatically. You could feel the air being sucked
out of Yankee Stadium. You got Garrett Cole, he's cruising.
(00:28):
We're up fives. Nothing, we can get out of this inning.
All you gotta do is cover first. All you got
to do is catch that fly. All you got to
do is throw the ball to thirty. And then you
don't do any of those things, and then all of
a sudden, the Dodgers go h. Things that make you
go h. We got a chance here, And then the
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Yankees did come back and take the lead, and then
Walker Bueller closed it out.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yes, Marvin, you could just hear the excitement getting sucked
out of the stadium when Garret Cole didn't go to
first base.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Ah. Well, it's one of those where it's a harmless
grounder or the appearance of a harmless grounder. And then
you're going, okay, atch routine, the picture comes over and
then he wait, the picture's not coming over. He's headed
towards the dugout. Rizzo's not going to get there. Mookie
Bets is flying down first base to keep the inning alive.
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on Monday eight, seven to seven to three. DP show
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DP show Football. Tonight, you got the Texans. The Texans
are getting one and a half against the Jets over
under forty two and a half for entertainment purposes. But
that's that's an interesting number there with the Texans, because
you've got people who think the Texans are a AFC
(02:05):
caliber team, winning the AFC, going to the Super Bowl,
getting to the AFC Title Game even though they lost
Stefan Diggs. But that'll be coming up tonight. Former Jets
head coach Rex Ryan will join us next hour. Joey Vado,
the former first baseman for the Reds, will join us
coming up recapping what we saw last night and in
(02:27):
this series. I have said this before, I don't want
this to be a standalone moment for Aaron Judge. I
hope it's not. Yes, he did drop the ball. He
didn't play well. He hasn't batted well in the postseason.
You know, it's almost like the hitting equivalent of Clayton Kershaw,
where you want them to have these big moments. You
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get to these big moments, and Aaron Judge didn't perform
hit the home run last night, but dropped the ball literally.
And I think sho hey Otani got a Hall pass
because of the sea. He build up some credibility, a
lot of credibility with his regular season. He wasn't one
hundred percent healthy. I mean you could see that he
(03:08):
was laboring even trying to run. But I do give
him credit for being out there at least giving that
probably reminder to the pitching staff for the Yankees, don't
make a mistake. I can still hit a home run.
But the rest of the lineup, certainly Freddie Freeman, they
came through Dave Roberts did a wonderful job in managing
and they win the world series. All right, pull question
(03:30):
for hour two is going to be what Seaton o counter?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Well, let me get you the mean spirited results from
our one. Wow, who feels worse today? Is it Aaron Judge,
Garrett Cole, Anthony Volpi or the Los Angeles Angels.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I don't think the Angels. The Angels have felt bad
then the last few years.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah, this someone probably feels a little more tough though.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You think watching show hey win a world series? Yeah,
your neighbors in Los.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Angeles, Yeah it was that was already bad. But yeah,
and that Mike Trout is just like that.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Okay, it doesn't mean that much to me. Okay, I
don't care, all right. It means more to Aaron Judge.
I don't care. It means more to Aaron Judge.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Aaron Judge currently leading the poll with forty eight percent
of them.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I'm sorry, fifty one just ticked up. Yeah, definitely, definitely
that that's a crusher there. All right, we'll get phone
calls coming up. Operator Tyler sitting by. Good morning if
you're watching on Peacock and no we didn't wear costumes today, Todd.
Todd went against my memo that I sent out, we're
not doing costumes because if one guy does it, everybody
(04:41):
has to do it. And I didn't want to get
dressed up.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
That was a shark for a little while.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
You were and you were displeased because I kind of
went against it.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, you didn't tell me you were doing it. After
I told you we're not just dressing up.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I meant, well, like for it to be a surprise,
but it ended up being going against your wishes, so
it ended up being a negative thing.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well, I don't want to get into it other than
you did it, and I was like, okay, now we
got through it.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
It was a San jose Ah sharks at least it was.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, truely, of course it was okay, So no costumes today.
But Fritzy's got his T shirt on that has his
Halloween names on it. That's that's about as halloweeny as
we're getting. What time now.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Proud of that shirt. I was very excited when we
put that together.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
All right, Well, we're happy for you as well. Levi
in Utah, Hey Levi, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Hey Dan?
Speaker 9 (05:33):
First time long Time six two twenty five. Hey, I
wanted to get your take on teams that don't have
their names on the back of their jerseys. And I
asked this because I'm watching this series with my girlfriend,
who is a big sports fan can name a lot
of players in all sports. She's talking to me about
(05:54):
the game and calling a lot of the Dodgers by name,
struggling with the Yankees. So I thought of, Okay, we've
got the Yankees usc Penn State. Is it ego or
is it just tradition.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I think it's tradition. I think a lot of coaches
managers like the fact that you're really playing for the
front of the jersey, not the back. But you know
what bothers me is when you see these uniforms and
the names on the uniforms are really small, either put
them on so we can read them, or don't put
them on at all. Not the oh it's in its
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like fine print on some of these. But no, the
Yankees have always done that. I have no problem with that.
Penn State. I have no problem with that Big j
in Delaware.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Hey, big Jay, Hey, good morning DP, Good morning fellows.
Just like how our mutual friend Pat says stat at
Freddie Freeman. I'm a big lifelong Braves fan, so I
was happy to see him come alive. I like to
call him, you know, just shout out Spritzy Freddie Frankenstan Freeman.
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He came alive in the pert season, six straight games
in the World Series with home runs and seven straight
games with multiple RBIs in the World Series, So shout
out to Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
You can make a case this is as good a
World Series performance in history because he ended up knocking
in twelve runs homeward in four of the five games. Like, let's,
you know, eliminate what he did with the Braves. Let's
just look at this World Series. Now you had Reggie
when he hit three home runs in one game, but
you know, to be able to just sprinkle the magic
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throughout all these games and to help your team win
because of these home runs or the RBIs, I mean,
that's his and you'd be hard pressed to find a
more impressive hitting performance in World Series history. And he
delivered and you didn't expect him to deliver. But those
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are big hits, man, big big hits. The Dodgers had
a total of twenty innings from their starting pitchers in
the World Series. That's the fewest innings from a starter
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Kevin in Oregon? Hi, Kevin, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 10 (08:59):
What's up?
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Guy?
Speaker 11 (09:00):
First time? Long time? Five to nine buck ninety. So
you mentioned you're talking about the salary Caps and NFL
and they want the parody. So are the Jets just
the laughing sock of that, because it's hard enough being
a Jets fan in Oregon, let alone with what's going
on every season.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, they're being laughed at. They should be good. They
had seven wins with terrible quarterbacking play last year. The
defense was top five and I thought Rogers healthy and
that defense in that division with that schedule that you're
looking at least ten wins, if not eleven wins. You
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get Aaron Rodgers, seasoned veteran, you got a good running game,
Garrett Wilson, and I thought, you know what, they can
do some damage. Oh they did. They did a lot
of damage to a lot of reputations. And here they
are favored by one and a half tonight, Luke and
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Charlotte is back. Hi, Luke, what's on your mind? Guys?
Speaker 12 (10:08):
How you doing so?
Speaker 9 (10:10):
Dodgers.
Speaker 12 (10:11):
I just I got a bit of a bone to
pick with this whole salary cap issue, because I mean,
some of these bad teams, you know, not necessarily bad
teams this year, because the Guardians were in there, the
Tigers were in there, but people were talking about the
Tigers salary with like eighteen million for the whole team,
and their owner is one of the ten richest owners
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in the league. And I think the blame has to
be shifted more towards complacent owners who just won't spend
more than the owners that are just as rich as
the other ones that just decide to spend because they
want to win.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, there's a bottom line to all of this.
That they're owners who will take profit over progress. Okay,
I'm going to make this amount of money. I would
want my ownership to spend the money. Maybe not like
the Mets did, but look, you're going to invest in
a team. And this goes back to what George Steinbrenner
and the Yankees did that was brilliant. They created their
(11:08):
own network and they made their team musty TV. As
if you're tuning in to watch Friends and you knew
everybody in the cast. You're tuning into a baseball game
where you knew who these stars are. They could spend
the money and keep them in the uniform you had familiarity.
Occasionally they would bring in somebody free agency, as if
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Bruce Willis or Brad Pitter guest starring on Friends. I mean,
this is what the Yankees did. They haven't been able
to replicate that. They're trying, but they haven't been able
to replicate that. And the Dodgers same way. I mean,
you're in a team town full of stars. You want
to have those stars, develop those stars, showcase those stars.
(11:54):
I have no problem with it. And you're right about
the Tigers. I mean, the Tigers don't have a big payroll,
and they did a wonderful aj Hinch did a wonderful
job with that line up there. Kansas City did a
really good job. I mean, that's where I say you
can make the playoffs and then after that anything can happen.
But there are teams that they can make the playoffs,
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but you have to want to make the playoffs. At
the trade deadline, you have to want to bring somebody in,
and sometimes that's where we see teams like the Reds
or the Pirates that they're selling. Paul Skeenes is not
going to end his career in Pittsburgh, just not. You know,
Elie Dela Cruz is not going to end his career
in Cincinnati, probably not, And that's disappointing from the standpoint
(12:41):
of you're there to watch. It's like when you watch
a band and they're like, man, you know, nobody really
knows about how good they are, and then all of
a sudden they get big and then all of a
sudden you lose them. That's what happens with a lot
of these franchises, you know, these cities where you go,
we kind of raised you, and then all of a
sudden you're gone. We can't afford you.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Yes, Mark, back to ownership, is George Steinbrenner or was
he in the minority as far as owners that at
all costs were trying to win then make money.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well, it felt like if there was a free agent,
the Yankees were going to get him. Yeah. I never
felt that way with other franchises. Now you'd pick and
choose and somebody would say, hey, we're going to go
after that guy, Like the Giants have gone. They went
after Aaron Judge, They've gone after Carlos Correa. I mean,
they've tried to make a splash. You know, Juan Soto
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to me would be a guy that maybe the Giants
would go after. But you know, the other teams are
able to go after that guy and that guy and
that guy. And that's the difference with a lot of
these teams. I don't think it's an aberration that the
teams that spent the most ended up in the World Series.
But you know, I mean, look at the Padres. You know,
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it's not a small market team. Like they shouldn't be
viewed as that they spent a lot of money. They
should be really good. The Mets should be really good.
You spend a lot of money, and you saw all
of that with the Dodgers, with all the money they spend,
you're still relying on guys that didn't make a lot
of money. Now, Freddie Freeman gets paid and show Hey
(14:15):
and Yamamoto like they got They get paid, Mookie, they
all get paid. They're MVPs and you know, well decorated.
But then you have to have those guys where they're
not making fifteen million a year, they're not making ten
million a year. They might not even be on the
roster next year. But those are the guys throughout history,
there's always one or two of those guys on every
(14:38):
World Series championship team. All right, more phone calls coming up.
We'll talk to our good buddy, Joey Vado, former Reds
first baseman. See. I want his perspective on that grounder
up the first base bag with Garrett Cole and Anthony Rizzo,
because that one seemed to open up the floodgates there
and then after that it was the point of no return.
(15:00):
It felt like, all right, we'll take a break and
we're back after this Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
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Speaker 2 (15:17):
More phone calls coming up, the Jets and the Texans
coming up tonight. Former Jets head coach Rex Ryan will
join us a little bit later on as well. He's
Joey Vado, the former Reds first baseman and our good buddy,
joining us once again recapping the World Series from a
first baseman's perspective. Put me in Anthony Rizzo's shoes last
(15:41):
night with the dribbler up the first baseline.
Speaker 13 (15:45):
So in that situation, there's two windows, and the first
is ball off the bat, and you're reading the way
the ball's spinning towards you, the speed of it. The
most important thing to do as an infielder, not just
a first baseman, is obviously catch the ball. There's always
(16:06):
a backup plan. No matter how deep you are in
the infield, whether you play third, first, it doesn't matter.
Someone has to be there to receive the ball. So
if you can't take it yourself, the first baseman has
to be there. Excuse me, if you can't take it yourself,
the pitcher has to be there to receive the ball
from you. While he was reading the ball because it
(16:27):
was a ball off the end of the bat, he
needed more time to prevent a possible odd bounce. It
was almost like a Q ball shot sort of thing.
If it had been one of those odd bounces, all
of a sudden it clinks off his glove. He's embarrassed.
It's an obvious error, a non out. But if it
clinks off your glove or you catch the ball, either
(16:52):
of those should have resulted in the opportunity to flip
the ball to first base. To the pitcher in that situation,
my guess is Garrett read Anthony as immediate initially attacking
the ball, and because he couldn't, because he couldn't make
that decision, he had to stay back on it. Garrett paused,
(17:12):
Rizzo stayed back and there was nobody at first base.
Mooki ran as hard as he could out of the box,
which is that's what he does. He plays the game perfectly,
and nobody was there, and you get the first run
of the game.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah, it kind of had to be a perfect storm
there that in what you bring up. The spin on
the ball, I think is going to get lost with
a lot of people that they don't realize that Rizzo
couldn't attack, he couldn't come up on it. But Cole
was thinking he's going to be able to do that.
Therefore he's sort of walking towards the dugout. And then
(17:46):
you got a factor in that Mooki Betch is running
as hard as he can and put even more pressure
on Rizzo.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
But that was the story of the series.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You know.
Speaker 13 (17:55):
In the very first game in the series, Glabor Torres
casually went after a ball after Shoho Tani hit a
double off the wall and it bounced off his glove,
ended up rolling into mound area. Show Hey aggressively took
third base in what was then a two to one game.
Mookie bets sacrifice flies makes it a two to two game,
(18:18):
and they get through the next inning and it ends
up going to extra innings. Who's to say that that
couldn't have been Game one for the Yankees and Freddie
Freeman doesn't get the opportunity to hit a grand slam.
Then in this most recent game, several errors in that
very same inning, an unchara characteristic error from Aaron Judge
and then Anthony Bolpie what was a decision that probably
(18:44):
I would imagine he probably would have liked to have
gone to second base on because in that situation, when
you go to third base, there's a crossover. You have
to make a perfect throw. And when I say there's
a crossover, the base runners heading in one direction and
the third baseman, who's typically not receiving balls in a
forced situation, has to has to catch the ball basically
(19:06):
with a runner sliding into him, with a runner crossing
his path, and without a perfect, perfect throw, you're oftentimes
not going to get a force play in that situation,
especially if you have a really good runner and he
didn't make a perfect throw and ended up and ended
up exacerbating, and then the garrit Cole non cover in
(19:26):
a I guess miscommunication and misread and then there's your
first run and then you know, go from there.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
But we talk about all the millions and millions and
millions of dollars that these rosters are, you know, a million.
It comes down to little things, little things, you know, fundamentals,
little things, doing things the right way.
Speaker 13 (19:52):
It's uh, you know, I don't want to be get
off my lawn, old, you know, get off my lawn guy.
But the culture I was brought up, and I'll tell
you a story from the minor leagues. So our farm
director Tim Nairing, when I was eighteen years old, we
used to run this drill and it was during instructional
(20:14):
league spring training, even during the regular season, where it
would be a twenty seven out drill and you would
have to get tech twenty seven consecutive outs consecutive excuse me,
collectively with your infield outfield, with your catcher, with your pitcher,
and they would hit balls all over the outfield, all
over through the infield, ground balls, double plays, you know,
(20:35):
tag ups, every and you had to do a twenty
seven time, a twenty seven outs in a row, and
if you made an error or a misplay or a
miscover in the eighteenth out or the twenty third out,
he'd scream back to zero and then.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
We would start back up from the very beginning.
Speaker 13 (20:53):
But it was the culture of perfection. It was the
culture of we are going to execute in game. If
you made an in the game, and if it was
a real blunder, you were getting either talked to or
potentially I remember occasions where you weren't playing the next
day or there was a real, you know, real fallout
from it. Now I'm not saying these teams aren't doing that.
(21:14):
But I love personally, I love a game that's clean.
There's something about it that's appealing when you get to
watch a clean game, no errors, fundamentally sound, and these
are two highly professional teams. It was shocking to see
some of these errors. Anthony Rizzo is one of the
best defenders I've ever seen. Cole doesn't make these mistakes.
It was just an odd situation.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Joey Vado, former Reds first baseman. How will you remember
Aaron Judge's World series?
Speaker 13 (21:40):
I will remember it the very same way I'll remember
show Heyo Tani's. I'll remember it as a fan. I'll
remember it as a missed opportunity, as potential potential, just
being just right on the precipice of him breaking out
(22:03):
and carrying this series show Hey the very same way.
He looked as good as you could possibly look, and
then he injured his shoulder. Aaron Judge looked as good
as he possibly could have looked in this most recent game,
and then they get knocked out. It would have been
such a fabulous finish to the series Game six and seven,
because Aaron finally looked locked in in this last game,
(22:24):
hitting a ball to right center field, powering it almost
to the second deck, taking tough pitches.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I thought, dude, wait, you froze up here. Well we'll
work on that connection there, Fritzie with Joey froze up
there a little bit. Let me see a couple of
(22:54):
phone calls in here while we wait. Christ in California,
Good morning, Chris. What's on your mind today?
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Hey, good morning Dan, danet and I just wanted to
tell you what your show means to a lot of
the listeners. I never get to catch you live because
I work swingshift, but I listened to you on Peacock,
the streaming partner. Everybody should download it. And I have
a coworker gives me sixty dollars a week gas and
we commute together. But he complains about your show, and
I told him I love the Dan Patrick show. There's
(23:22):
no yelling, there's fun, you know, we laugh everything else.
So he just keeps complaining. So now you know it, Dan,
all right by myself to work listening. So listening to
your show cost me sixty dollars a week, but it's
worth every penny. And you just you guys do a lot,
and even like if I last leg of a parlay
and the Vegas Nights don't win. I just put on
(23:44):
your show the second hour and I laugh and it
makes everything all right. So I just want to tell you,
thank you to all you guys.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
We really appreciate it.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
One thing, Dan, were you a parlay guy or were
you just a straight bet guy?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Straight bet guy? Straight bet never liked parlays because I
knew that that was impending death. I would always I
would always lose those parlays. And you know, parley's are
so much fun. You're like, oh, we can reduce this
to or now the line is seven and a half.
It's yeah. And then people go, like you know, Dylan
(24:16):
and Shay and Irving and bad Larry on the Gambling podcast,
They're like, oh, you know, I'm going to do a
four team parlay and I'm like, that's a loser, that's
a laws. Yeah. I was always a straight up guy.
Tom in North Carolina, Carolina Tom.
Speaker 14 (24:33):
Hey DP with probably not being there, I took it
up myself to do an ITAM report. They investigate in
a possible trademark infringement on Fritzy's Halloween sports names. So
it comes to find out that silence of the CD
LAMB was used before from Todd Frick a few years ago.
(24:55):
Used It was actually used this past week on the
Fox Spree game show on Sunday. So I think season desist.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You know, well, okay, all right, got some trademark issues there.
Fritzie's trying to corral Joey Vado here. So Fritzie's not
even in the room right now. He's panicking that he's
lost Joey Vodo. Fritzie, we're running out of time. If
Joey's not able to reconnect, then you know, just tell him,
(25:26):
thank you, would him another time.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
It's all good?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah? Uh Ryan and Honolulu. Hi Ryan, He.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
Happy all the way, Dan, Well.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Thank you Ryan. Good to talk to you again.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
I have some Halloween sports names that are as creepy
as called. Okay, A couple of ambient everyones here, Andre Ego,
Dolla yah NBA coach Zombie bick a staff Yeah, Dante Exorcism.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Dante ExHAM makes the show. Hey, give me one more, Ryan.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
I got four quick ones to base the ones, Jose al.
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Toomb you got three left mummy Machado, two left mummy.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
All right, Well, I don't know if this is a
Kareem witch hunt. But I got DeMarcus Werewolves and lastly
soccer legend Gary Kine.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Thank you. That's Ryan and Honolulu Joey Vardo thankfully is
back with us. We were talking about how you'll remember
Aaron Judge and you brought in Sho Hey O Tani.
That missed opportunities for both of these guys on the
big stage.
Speaker 13 (27:00):
And Dan, I'm sorry the hamster jumped off the wheel
for my connection.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
I thought that show.
Speaker 13 (27:06):
Hey approaching, was approaching peak show Hey before he hurt
his shoulder. But Aaron in that last game very similarly.
You know, he looked fantastic. He hit that beautiful home
run to right center field, he took some tough pitches
for a walk. I just thought he looked great, And
I thought it was a missed opportunity for all baseball fans.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
We didn't get to see our best players at their best.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah, and then Otani, but they build up a lot
of regular season credibility with the numbers that they both
put up. You just wanted to see that kind of
showdown Showcase go seven seven games and it comes down
to Otani or Aaron Judge in the I mean that's
what we live for. We want those moments. We want
the best players on the biggest stage. How do you
(27:49):
explain Freddie Freeman of getting locked in like that and
it felt like they were pitching him sort of in
the same location.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
There was never a tough matchup for him.
Speaker 13 (28:03):
He's the type of hitter that against these right handed
pitchers that don't get swings and misses, He's going to
get three quality swings off every single at bat. And
when you get three quality swings off and you're a
contact style of guy, you're going to do damage.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
I'll tell you. When I played, I used to look
at the series.
Speaker 13 (28:25):
I used to look at who was pitching, and I
used to laugh to myself, I'm going to be able
to get swings off over and over and over. And
that's how Freddie felt going into this series. There was
no bat where he was overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
But weren't they putting it in the same location where
he was taking I thought away away or if it's inside,
it's really inside. Not he could turn on it and
that was what he was driving. I mean, he was
hitting home runs. So the novice in me is looking
at that, going why are they putting that ball felt
(29:00):
like in the same location.
Speaker 13 (29:02):
That was just a reflection of him executing on every
one of those opportunities. You know, when you watch a game,
notice how many pitches get missed, whether by take take
or by a foul ball or swing through. And he
got those opportunities and at a significantly higher percentage than
the average hitter was executing on it and putting in
(29:23):
play for a home runner a double, and he just
he just did.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
That all theories long.
Speaker 13 (29:30):
And I think he owns the World Series home run record,
consecutive game record.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Now, yeah, six he got back. Yeah he went six.
If you go back to the Braves, that six consecutive
games that he hit a home run. Didn't homer last night.
But still, you know, they didn't even know how healthy
he was going to be. I mean, you can look
at the Dodger I mean total team effort. But I
brought this up in the first hour. I thought Dave
(29:53):
Roberts did a wonderful job with his pitching staff, with
the roster, and they felt more like a smaller market team,
Like their approach felt smaller market, even though it's a
you know, billion dollar roster. And I think that's a
credit to the manager of we hustle, we make the
small plays. You know, we're going to pull the pitching
(30:14):
staff together, you know, be a bullpen game. You know
all of those things. I just thought he pressed the
right buttons. I agree, I agree, But they didn't. They
didn't have a strong pitching staff, and their bullpen was
not strong either. They had some bright spots.
Speaker 13 (30:31):
Of course, trending was excellent, but to be when you
have to bring brute Buehler in t end the game,
you know, that's saying that you don't have, you know,
you don't have a class a sort of thing to
throw the last two three innings of the game. Even
on the Yankee side, you know, they didn't have an
ace bullpen arm. They had some solid guys, but they
didn't have guys that historically have been dominant.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Have you ever had a moment like MOOKI had with
fans where they were trying to take the ball out
of your.
Speaker 13 (30:58):
Glove shamefully, shamefully, there was a pop fly down the
first baseline and one of the Cincinnati Reds fans reached
over and we made contact and I didn't catch the ball,
and I grabbed his Cincinnati Red's logo and I kind
of tugged at it, like you're a Red fan, and
(31:19):
I walked away. And that was the first and last
time I'd ever made contact with a fan in general.
And I called him personally and I profusely apologized and
we made you know, we had a good relationship afterwards.
But you know, I've never seen that before, and it's
I've never seen something so egregious. I thought it was
(31:40):
not good, especially on the World Series stage, especially with
such a classy player as Mookie was, who's who's like
the sort of player that you would watch with your
children to teach how to play. And so, you know,
to see that, I was, I was. I was bummed out.
But no, that's never happened to me, thankfully. I would
have reacted, not in a good way, not as classy
(32:02):
as Mookie reacted.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Did you ever talk to Otani was when he was
at first base? Did you do you eat?
Speaker 11 (32:10):
Like?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
What do you there's a language barrier, but do you
think he knows and can speak a whole lot better
than he leads on? Well?
Speaker 13 (32:19):
When I when I first played against excuse me, a
couple of times that I played against him were when
he was with Anaheim. So that was at the beginning
of his career and the first occasion that I crossed
paths with him.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
I said, wow, you're fast, and he goes, thank you.
I got the.
Speaker 13 (32:36):
So in my experience, we were having a Japanese English conversation.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Okay, yeah, okay, deep deep conversation. Huh you're really fast. Yes,
the great to talk to you, and uh hope, Uh,
you're doing something with your life. Now what are you
doing with your life?
Speaker 13 (32:58):
I'm clearly in environments that that don't have strong Internet connections,
so I could I could stand upgrade from there. But
I'm doing great. I been doing some surfing and been
doing some traveling. It's been great.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Then, Okay, I hope I see, you know, involved with
baseball next year. I hope that there's something if you
want to be involved in a you know, MLB network
pregame show or something. You got too much knowledge and
personality to have it not be seeing.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
That's kind of you.
Speaker 13 (33:30):
I love the game, I love talking about but more importantly,
I love to learn. And this is the sort of
sport that if you don't stay up with the current trends,
if you don't keep up with the the the industry,
you can fall behind, and I don't want to be
one of those types. Either I'm in or I'm out,
so I would imagine I'll probably take a step.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Good good, Thanks as always, Thank you, Thanks Stamp. That's
Joey Vado, former Reds First Basement. Take a break. More
phone calls coming up after this.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
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Speaker 2 (34:05):
WAP James in Virginia. Hi James, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 11 (34:12):
Oh?
Speaker 15 (34:12):
Thanks for taking my call? Brother? Happy Thursday, DP, Dan,
That salute the commanders and Happy Halloween.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Man.
Speaker 15 (34:19):
Who doesn't he love handing out candy? And officially we
are the full Scouts candy bar house of our daghbor man.
No doubt about it. Man, The Yankees really dropped the
ball man, literally and figuratively. I thought they were gonna
win the series with their pitching staff man, and they
just let they just let it go. But last night
was a perfect example on why Benton on sports is
(34:41):
totally hard to do.
Speaker 13 (34:43):
Man.
Speaker 15 (34:44):
You said it right. I am a gambler myself, and
I definitely had the Yankees last night, find nothing. I
went to bed. I woke up when the Dodgers were
winning the series. I'm like, wow, what happened? Man? And
one last thing? DP. Who feels worse today? To me,
it's the Boston re sucks because Movie Bets didn't leave
them in free agency. They traded this guy. He's got
(35:05):
too well sers links and it's probably a top five
player in baseball today. I always appreciate you guys half
under day. Don't need too much candy and watch out
on them sports games man. But so Luca Commanders, y'all
have a great day.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Alrighty, alrighty. That's James in Virginia. I love Mookie Bets.
I fell in love with how he played the game
when he was in Boston, and I thought, gosh, you
just don't get rid of a guy like that.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
It's crazy that they let him go crazy.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
And granted his numbers aren't the way they were in Boston,
but still he plays the game right. He's you know,
you don't worry about him, and he can play a
lot of different positions. Now does he have three World
Series titles?
Speaker 14 (35:45):
Now?
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I think he does.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Yeah. I think he's the active leader in World Series titles.
Let's see how about Scott and Jacksonville. Hi Scott, what's
on your mind today?
Speaker 7 (35:56):
Good morning Dan?
Speaker 16 (35:57):
How are you today? Ballie in its recovery yep. I
would suggest that Aaron Judge dropped fly ball last night.
We'll go down in MLB history alongside the Merkel boner
in nineteen oh eight and Fred Snodgrass dropped fly ball
(36:21):
in nineteen twelve, both to eventually lose the World Series.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I don't think so. They were down three games to one.
Judges hitting or lack thereof, should be have more of
the spotlight than him dropping that ball. You can see
him at the last second, he's thinking about doubling off
the runner, and we're always taught get the first out
(36:48):
before you get the second out, and he didn't, and
he felt terrible about it. He talked about it. Marvin.
Do we have Aaron Judge with the air.
Speaker 6 (37:00):
A short in the little serious stick until I die?
Speaker 14 (37:02):
Probably?
Speaker 6 (37:02):
I think, just like every other loss, you know, those
things don't go away. You know they're they're battle scars
along the way and hoping my career is over. We
got a lot of battle scars, but also a lot
of victory along the way too.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Yeah, you can hear it. You know that it will
stay with him. I don't think it's going to stay
with everybody the way it stays with him. Obviously, he
didn't hit well, and that to me, he's got to
hit well. You do make the error, but he's not alone.
I mean that that team is short on fundamentals, base running, fielding,
(37:36):
making the right baseball play. That was a microcosm of
who they were. That fifth inning was a microcosm I
felt like for how they played during the regular season.
There'd be times when you'd go, nobody can turn a
double into a single like gim Carlos Stanton can. Like
these guys, they're not hustling down the back. See Mooki
(37:56):
did a small thing. He never gave up on the play.
That's the important part of this. You know, Garrett Cole
didn't understand the spin on the ball. Anthony Rizzo couldn't
come in because it might have gotten by him, and
then maybe you're you know, now you've got a couple
of runs coming in, but you got to get the ball.
You have to make sure that is all routine. That's
(38:17):
all spring training routine for the pitcher in the first basement.
They practice it over and over and over, and Garrett
Cole made a mistake in reading the ball and Rizzo
thought Garrett Cole was going to be there. Yeah. See.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
It's a good point though, because like the first thing
that popped in my head as soon as I saw
her and Judge dropped that ball was oh my god,
Fred Snodgrass. Oh my god, I know one person who's
happy right now.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
That's Fred snagerras Mis Snodgrass family. Yeah, the Grass. That's
a state. That's I think he's being sarcastic there. I
think you're being Oh my god, he just Fred snodgrassed.
Oh no, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
He didn't.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Dropped the ball. Say back in the day and there's
a drive to Fred Snodgrass and he saiddled, oh and
he lost it all, No.
Speaker 17 (39:07):
Can't underneath it and he dropped nineteen twelve. I play
you that that's gonna be thought of one hundred years
from now. We're gonna be talking about that other round
announcer as well, the Fred Snodgrass playing.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
He wasn't that good because his name was Fred If
he was really good at me, ah, three fingers, okay, Fred,
just catch the ball, right.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Yeah, Fred, try to You're not a star.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
All right, just catch the ball, all right, God, it's.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Not grass, do it. Come on.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
I can't believe he said that with his straight face.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
It wasn't even like a chuckle.
Speaker 15 (39:52):
After day.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
I know, I know, Fred Merkle, you know, bonehead Merkle.
But I you'd have to jar my memory with Fred
Snodgrass there. I thought he was going to say Bill Buckner,
but no, this is your it's three to one games.
If this was the seventh game and he did that,
then yes, we would be talking about that. You'd be
(40:15):
talking about that one hundred and ten years from now.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Yes, Marmin and the Dodgers were playing like they were
down three to one, you know, they were playing with urgency.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Yes they did. And Dave Roberts talked about that. When
you get up, make sure you still play like you're
the underdog here with urgency. And Dave Roberts talked about that.
All right, talked a lot of baseball. We got football
coming up tonight. Why are the Jets favored by one
and a half against the Texans. We'll talk to the
(40:43):
former Jets head coach Rex Ryan. Final hour
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