The Bernie Fratto Show talks Dodgers being World Series Champions, New York Media Storylines, Week 10 College Football Matchups & MORE!

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or around July fourteenth, nineteen eighty eight, Timmy Lessorda got
his legendary nineteen eighty eight Dodgers team gathered as they
were about to take the field after the All Star

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Break for a six game series in Chicago. Now, the
Dodgers were fifteen games over five hundred, but people didn't
believe it. Fans didn't believe it. Opposing teams didn't believe it.
Media didn't believe it. They were overachieving, and everybody in
the world world was waiting for them to come back
to Earth, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Sound familiar,

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well right on cue. Heading into the All Star break,
the Dodgers lost three games in a row, and there
it was three games in a row three days off,
everybody would stew all Star Break. So Tommy decided to
have a pregame meeting in Chicago and he yelled at
everybody he goes, listen to me. I want you to
know something. You lost three games in a row. That's
nothing you ever heard of? The twenty eight Yankees, twenty

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seven Yankees, twenty eight Yankees, Murderer's Row, Babe, Ruth lou grig,
Tony Lazari. They once lost eleven games in a row.
And if the twenty seven Yankees can lose eleven games
in a row, he was sure as hell can lose
three games now, don't worry about it, go out there
and play ball. Dodgers went out that night and won

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to nothing, proceeded to win six in a row. Tom
Needing few or a relief pitcher on the team a
couple days later, said hey, Skip, gotta ask you question, man,
is it really true that twenty eight Yankees once lost
eleven games in a row? Holly Hecktawaina was three months
old at the time. You know, in July, everybody he

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predicted the Dodgers would fall off. I heard renowned baseball
experts on our network saying I don't I don't know
if they're gonna win the division. I never believed it.
I called Ryan Berscher and I told him that I
saw him play. We saw him playing Milwaukee in Augustin.
And the longley short of it is this that there
are defining moments in seasons, in defining moments, and there were,
as Yogi Bert would say, different similarities between the nineteen

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eighty eight Dodgers and certainly the twenty twenty four Dodgers,
not just the Gibbee Freddy thing, not just the Walker
Rebueler thing in New York, im and in relief like
oral did against the Mets back in nineteen eighty eight.
And yes, as Vince Gully once said, we saw the
improbable followed by the impossible. And interestingly enough, the season

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was defined by pitching. Imagine that pitching, that pitching, even
with no Clayton Shaw, no Tyler Glass now, no Tony Gonsolin,
no Dustin May, no Gavin Stone, and oh yes, joey
Otani wasn't able to pitch this year either. And look
at what the Dodgers did. They don't have Trevor Bauer

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anymore obviously, who ended up ironically being the twenty twenty
four Mexican League pitcher of the Year, led the league
in wins at ten, struck out one hundred and twenty
guys in eighty innings, set all kinds of records, but
his history of behavior surfaced, and so he's gone. Same
situation with Julio Urius. But that's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

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eight top flight pitchers the Dodgers didn't have, and yet,
as Tommy Lissorda said, that didn't stop him. The one
defining moment for me will always though, be the infamous
fifth inning on Wednesday Night. You can't make this stuff up.

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It's incredible. Just when things were going great for the
New York Yankees in Game five of the World Series,
they hit the self destruct button in the worst possible way.
Now I'll tell you what happened, but let's keep this
in mind, because I think what the Dodgers did was spectacular.
It's not what happens in life, it's how you react.

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And as you know, as you know, there's an old saying, well,
it's all about being at the right place at the
right time, but you need to add a sentence to that.
It's all about being at the right place at the
right time and doing something about it. See because the
Dodgers did. The Dodgers tilled five nothing on Wednesday night,

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and in the blink of an eye, thanks to some
embarrassing Larry Mule and curly defense by the Yankees, the
Dodgers took advantage. Now their trouble began. Aaron Judge botched
the routine flyball to center field that was hit by
Tommy Edman, I believe, with a runner on first and
nobody out, and a judge jogged in very nonchalantly, got

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out of the ball and just booted it so the
ball glanced off his glove dropped in the outfield grass.
Now you've got first and second, nobody out for the Dodgers.
It gets worse. Will Smith, who hit a ground ball
to shortstop Anthony Wolpe. Wope was able to field the ball,
but he tried to throw it to third to get
the lead runner ended up throwing a one hopper to

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third basement Jazz Chisholm, who couldn't pick it. He couldn't
make the play. Everybody safe. Dodgers bases loaded, no one out,
still trailing by five runs. At that point. Yankee starter
Garrett Cole, who had been really sailing along on easy Street,
stepped up, and then he struck out Gavin Lux and

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Shohiol Tommy with the bases loaded, and then the fun began.
He almost got out of the inning with no damage.
But then Mookie bets, well he smacked a ground ball.
I wouldn't That's not true. I would say he hit
a flare weekly toward first baseman Anthony Rizzo. Now you

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work on this all day, every day in spring training,
and I'm not joking. This is important. Anytime a ball
is it to the right side of the infield, a
pitcher instinctively automatically sprints toward the first baseline. About halfway,
they turn, run parallel to the baseline with your glove

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in the air, offering up a target for the fielder.
High touch the bag with your right foot, and step
into fair territory, soon to get run over instinctively. My
contend because Garrett Cole had to throw additional seventeen pitches,
he was mentally shot, and he observed in his peripheral
vision that as Anthony Rizzo was feeling the ball, his

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motion was carrying him toward first base. So he routinely
thought that Rizza would take to play himself. You know
what happened next? Neither happened. Cole did not run to
cover the bag, Bets hustled, hustled, got there safely, and
all of a sudden, the Dodgers pushed run across the plate.
They haven't gotten a hit yet. But then the Dodgers

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did what the Dodgers have been doing all year long.
Now what happens, it's how he react. They capitalized on
the opportunity. They got back to back RBI hits from
Freddie Freeman, who did smack a two run single, and
Tiascar Hernandez, who hit a two run double on the
very two next to bats. All of a sudden, a
five to nothing laugher was now a five to five game.

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Do you know in the history of the World Series,
there have been two hundred and thirty three instances where
a team led five to nothing. You know how many
time times the team that was down five nothing came
back none? None? Now and then, of course you know
you had to balk, you had to catcher's interference throughout
the game. But if even only one of those crazy

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blunders had not happened and the resulted in even just
won out, the Dodgers wouldn't have scored not half inning,
but by stringing all three of them together in succession,
the Dodgers, well, the Yankees opened the door for the
Dodgers to hang five runs on him, none of which
will be recorded as earn runs. Now, people will say, it's,
you know, very rare to see that kind of total

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implosion in a single half inning by three separate players,
But that's how baseball works. Just when you think you've
seen it all, you see something new. But the truth
of the matter is, defensive blunders were an achilles heel
for the Yankees throughout the regular season. The Dodgers defense
was pristine, and their pitchers threw strikes, and they ran
the bases, and they didn't give the Yankee six outs

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an inning, and they didn't give the Yankees five to
six strikes. You can't defend a walk. Bill Belichick said
it back. You can't beat a team who won't be
beat The Dodgers would not be beaten. And for all
of the events that took place throughout the season, that

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will be the defining moment for me. In Game five,
notwithstanding what the heroics Freddie Freeman had and of course,
the entire team and what Walker Bueller also did against
the Potteries in that gutty performance when they were down
six to one. Don't forget that as well. That's set
a tone. Hats off, caps off to the Dodgers. Fantastic

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parade today, well deserved and don't be surprised. Don't be
surprised if the Dodgers aren't back in the World Series
again in twenty twenty five. Let's see, I'm Bernie Friddle.
Were coming to your line from Las Vegas, foxfor Atradio,
Tirek dot com studios. Coming out Brad Powers, our college
football guru. Big weekend coming up as we headed in November.

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All right back in the Bernie Frattle Show Fox Sports Radio.
Come to live from the Tarak dot Com studios here
in Las Vegas. Let's welcome in a gentleman an absolute
guru when it comes to college football. Highly respected here
in Las Vegas and certainly nationally, and really good to
have him on now because we're heading into November and

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there's a lot to talk about. Say hello to Bradpowers, Brad,
how are you, buddy?

Speaker 4 (10:40):
Hey? Doing well?

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Bernie?

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Thanks for having me, Bud.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Always glad to have you and been a minute since August,
but there's been a lot of history as we head
into week ten, and before I get into an overarching
discussion I have about your thoughts in the playoff run,
I just want to get to a couple of matchups.
The key one, of course, Ohio State at Penn State.
Brad connected dots from me on something that's I'm making sense.
A few weeks ago Ohio State travel to Oregon, they

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were laying three and now they're visiting Penn State land three.
What baffles me is if I put Oregon in Penn
State on a neutral, I got Oregon at least a
two point favorite. Is this line a bargain for Ohio
State backers?

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Am I wrong?

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (11:18):
Good?

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Very good?

Speaker 6 (11:20):
Trying to connect the dots there, because you're right, Oregon
actually would be in my opinion, more than two point
favorite on a neutral against Penn State.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
In fact, i'd have.

Speaker 6 (11:28):
That four so fair enough screen that would scream Ohio State, Well,
what's happened in that time that they were laying three
against Oregon? Lost to Oregon. Defense didn't look good. And
then after a bye week when you think Ohio State
was going to be you know, at least dialed in,
and they're off a lost, they're off of buy. They

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almost lose outright as a twenty five point favorite against Nebraska.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
And it was legitimate.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
It's not like they were minus four or five and
turnovers in the game. It was they couldn't run the football.
They're coprom on the offensive line, they're starting left tackles out,
the backup who replaced the starter. He's out most likely
for tomorrow's games. So you got a position group, a
very important position group when you're playing Penn State, that's
you know, less than one hundred percent. So that's why
we're sitting here with the line of three. But with

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that being said, I you know, my numbers are showing
some slight value to the.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Buckeyes here you read my mind. I talked to one
of my Columbus molls Wednesday talked about the cluster injuries
at left tackle. They're having trouble protecting Will Howard question
for you, though, The overarching narrative around Columbus seems to
be that if Ryan Day were to lose this game. Now,

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I hate to give hypotheticals. The worlds of Vexican enough
plays with a hypotheticals, But to what level do you
believe Ryan Days in trouble at Ohio State just as
we sit tonight before the Penn State game Saturday?

Speaker 6 (12:52):
Yeah, I'm not I'm not buying that E's and jobs
in danger. Better he better win the mission game. I mean,
if you were just say, lose this game and then
turn around lose to Michigan, then we can have this conversation.
But obviously Ohio State is going to be a significant
favorite against the Wolverines, and again I mean their favorite

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tomorrow that I mean, it would be really a big
time disappointment that they didn't win.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
So uh one of the things that caught my eye,
but OLISO see it has a tempcy to play with
their food until they get towards the end of the year.
Their offense was very much in a funk and they
went over Nebraska and they did get that seventy yard
seventy five yard TV drive in the fourth quarter after
Nebraska took the lead. What is the electure for Penn State?
We know James Franklin's record is atrocious in games like this,

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So what's the recipe for Penn State to win this game?

Speaker 6 (13:46):
Brad In good question and number one, you know, the
question for Penn State is how healthy or not healthy
is their starting quarterback?

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Drew He's gonna play though I understand he's going to play.
Go ahead.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
He is going to play see you know, because it
was a knee And keep in mind, it's not like
they were up three touchdowns against Wisconsin when he pulled
himself out of the game. They were down ten to
seven in that game. So that would concern me that
that he wasn't able to finish last week's game. They
have a very good backup, a guy that I think
is going to have to play some snaps tomorrow because

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you got you got a really good defensive line for
Ohio State that gets after the quarterback when they're not playing.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
Oregon, and I think they can use his legs perbula
the backup. So what does it.

Speaker 6 (14:32):
Look like, Well, I mean, you keep Ohio States, it
looks a lot like when Nebraska did you keep Ohio
States rushing attack and check you play you know, too
high safety where they you try to limit the big
plays in the Ohio State's passing game, and then you
got to make an extra player too that Nebraska didn't make.
See Nebraska settled for a bunch of field goals last week.
I mean, you get scoring opportunities for Penn State, you

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got you gotta put six on the board, not three.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Bull Praboula looked pretty good last week, but a few
to go again. How many? How many points is drew
Aller worth to the line?

Speaker 6 (15:05):
Another really good question, Bernie. Not as much as you'd think.
I would say about point and a half or two points.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, So one last thing and I'll get off of
this game. It would seem to me that if Ohio
State has designs on winning this game decisively or Penn
State has designs on stopping Ohio State, it's all going
to come down to how well Chip Kelly runs the ball,
which has been a little bit of their bugaboo this year.
Do you expect Ohio State to be able to run
the ball Saturday?

Speaker 4 (15:32):
You know what.

Speaker 6 (15:33):
I don't think so, but I've seen that. You know,
I've only got one data point, but it's the most
pertinent one, and that's, you know, the data point without
their starting left tackle and now without the backup. And
that was sixty four yards against Nebraska's defensive line. And
I think Penn State's nearly as good, if not better
than Nebraska's defensive line. So no, I don't expect them

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to have fine gaping holes.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
On Saturday Talk with Brad Powers are Fox Sports Radio
college football guru. You hear them all around airwaves around
the country. Does this all work like no other? Brad?
I want to go to ann Arbor because I've been
on the phone with my ann Arborough moles a lot
this week, because they really think they can rest Bryce
Underwood away from LSU. I don't believe that there's a

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rumor he may even be on the sideline at the
Oregon game tomorrow Oregon Land two touchdowns. Do you expect
Michigan to put up a fight here? What are your
thoughts on that game?

Speaker 6 (16:25):
I don't, Bernie, I'm really looking to better Oregon. The
problem is that came a little priced here. I mean,
I'm price sensitive. I mean bet numbers, not teams, And
I was looking for something cheaper than fourteen and a half.
I can tell you that, but thirteen and a half
for the show, then certainly I wouldn't jump in on
the ducks. I just, I mean, I know you follow
Michigan very closely, but I know watching Michigan football, I

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just don't see the pathway for their offense that have
to get help in this game. Their wide receivers aren't
going to get separation against Oregon's secondary. That means Oregon's
going to put.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
Eight guys in the box. They'll be able to slow.

Speaker 6 (17:01):
Down the Michigan run game. The Michigan run game hasn't
really done anything since the Arkansas State and USC games
at the start of the year anyway, So I just.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
I don't see it. And then on the other side.

Speaker 6 (17:11):
I mean, you saw Oregon move up and down the
field against Ohio State.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
I think Ohio State.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
Defense this year it's just as good as Michigan's defense
this year. No Will Johnson on the back end. And
keep in mind, Oregon left points on the field.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Against Ohio State.

Speaker 6 (17:26):
They missed an extra point, they missed a field goal,
they got stopped on downs inside the ten yard line.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
They easily could have put forty.

Speaker 6 (17:32):
So what I'm getting at is, I think the best
way to attack this game tomorrow is Oregon team total over.
I think they get in the thirties against Michigan tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
You brought up a great point in Ohio. State's got
elite dbs in Oregon had no trouble or not much
trouble Michigan. No Will Johnson, He'll be a top eight
pick in the draft next year. I want to jump
to the world's largest cocktail party. It certainly has lost
a hell of a lot of lesser given Florida's situation.
Georgia number two, but you never know in a rivalry

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game is there. Can you make any case to grab
Florida in the points it's big number.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
I can't really.

Speaker 6 (18:10):
I mean, I guess you know the case would be
made that DJ Lagway gives him higher upside. He's the
true freshman quarterback, great talent, going to be a really
good quarterback in the future.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
However, let's keep it simple.

Speaker 6 (18:22):
Kirby smart extra week to prep for a young quarterback.
And the other question got to ask yourself is if
George's a game shows up.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
I mean, this is a.

Speaker 6 (18:31):
Total blowout because we've seen George's A game. We've seen
it the second half against Clemson where they blew out
a good Clemson team. We saw it first half against
Texas where they blew out a good Texas team. We
saw it after they got you trailed twenty nothing against
Alabama and almost won that game outright on the road.
So if we get anything close to George's A game
here for sixty minutes, this will be a layup. I

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mean Georgia will win by three touchdowns, So I prefer
to lay.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
The points here.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Brad. A game that's a little under the radar, but
it shouldn't be. The both top twenty teams. Pitt visits
SMU smulaying a touchdown. But Pitt, I understand they're getting
the quarterback Eli Holstein. He's going to be able to play.
I know he left the Syracuse game. Thoughts on that game.
It's massive if you are looking at ACC standings and
they're a Power four team. So if you think Clemson

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to Miami are going to meet in the title game, well,
this is a game where both these teams have to
show up.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
Yeah, I guess I trust that. Yeah, I trust that,
sm you a little bit more. And you know this
is handicapping one oh one and this is in the
weeds a little bit for maybe your average listener.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
But there's not very.

Speaker 6 (19:34):
Many opportunities in a single season where you can take
advantage of betting on a team in SMU that was
minus six and turnovers last week, they somehow won the
game despite being minus six and turnovers. And it only
happened one time in the previous one hundred and twenty
five instances of a team winning a game minus six
and turnovers, So that says they're underrated. On the other side,

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I think Pitt's overrated. They were plus five and turnovers
last week, not one two, but three pick six is
in one half against Syracuse.

Speaker 4 (20:03):
Add those two things together.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
It's a one plus one equals three type of situation
for me.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
I guess in you quite a bit. Let's lay the seven.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Real quickly, Brad. It looks like Boise State might be
the at large team. If not them, who I.

Speaker 6 (20:17):
Think a team that keep an eye on is two Lane.
We saw him last night get an easy blowout win.
Everyone's talking Army and Navy. I get it, but I
think both teams are going to get exposed. We saw
Navy get exposed against Notre Dame. Army's got to play
Notre Dame. I think the team to beat in the
American and the best team in my power ratings is
two lane, So keep an eye on them, But I
fully expect Boise to be the representative.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
They're by far the best group of five teams.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
I agree. If you put Boise in two lane on
a neutral, what do you make that number?

Speaker 6 (20:47):
Brad, Yeah, you're still gonna have Boise, but favored by
six and a half or seven.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
That's exactly what I was thinking, Because you know you
saw Boys play Oregon. What was your big takeaway from that?

Speaker 4 (20:58):
Easily could have been a Boys win.

Speaker 6 (21:00):
I think people forget Oregon had not one but two
kick return touchdowns and had to kick a field go
on the final play of the game to be Boys.
He Boys, He was game in that one. That wasn't
a fluke.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Brad. Really appreciate you man. Your research is impeccable, your
ability to lay it out for the folks and bite
sized pieces on match. Keep up the great work, Brad,
see you soon, pal.

Speaker 6 (21:19):
Thanks for having me. Bernie enjoy the game tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Thanks. That is Brad Powers. You can follow him on
Twitter at Brad Powers seven. He is highly respected here
in Las Vegas and you hear him all around. You know,
bet the board pod he works for, you know, covers
multiple betting shows, and he has his own website, bradpowerssports
dot com. As you can see very much has his

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finger on the pulse. You know who had their finger
on the pulse as well, the Dodgers. But I'm not
so sure that New York fans or other fans are
giving the Dodgers their flowers. We got to chop this up.
Did the Dodgers win or did the Yankee choke? I
know what I think, but not everybody agrees. We'll chop

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that up coming up. But first we go to our guy,
the chef, Kevin Wyrett, with the latest.

Speaker 7 (22:09):
Yeah, a lot of NBA action on Friday night, big
game in Minneapolis, Timberwolves and Nuggets, and it was the
ant man taking over things down the stretch.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Top of the key to calm me, back over to
Edwards thirty seconds to go.

Speaker 8 (22:23):
Edwards hasn't working against Quorter Coase to the left hand.

Speaker 9 (22:26):
He's of the page over God time out Denver.

Speaker 7 (22:31):
That was the Minnesota Timberwolves radio network, as Minnesota wins
at one nineteen, one sixteen, propelled by Anthony Edwards and
his twenty nine points. Nikola Jokic a rebound shy of
a triple double twenty six points, nine rebounds, thirteen assists.

Speaker 9 (22:46):
Jamal Murray had.

Speaker 7 (22:46):
To leave the game in the third quarter and he
is now in a concussion protocol elsewhere around the association.
Thunder over the Trailblazers one thirty seven one point fourteen,
Pelicans beat the Pacers one twenty five, one eighteen. The
Lakers bounce back from their loss against the Cavs beat
the Raptors one thirty one one twenty five, Nets over

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the Bulls one twenty to one twelve, Kings beat the
Hawks won twenty three one fifteen. Knicks with a win
in Detroit against the Pistons one twenty eight one twenty
eight ninety eight, and the Cavaliers top the Magic one
twenty to one oh nine.

Speaker 9 (23:19):
Celtics moved to five.

Speaker 7 (23:20):
And one with a one twenty four one oh nine
overtime win against the Charlotte Hornets in a college football
Boise State, looking like the team that very well could
represent a group of five in the college football Playoff.
They had a blowout win at home on the blue
turf against San Diego State fifty six to twenty four,
so the Broncos now seven and one on the season.

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Four to zero in Mountain West play. Yukon is now
bull eligible as they beat Georgia State at home thirty
four to twenty seven, so the Huskies six and three
on the season. South Florida over Florida Atlantic forty four
to twenty one. To wrap up Friday night slate of
college football action, back go to your burning all.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Right, Jeff, thanks Bud so twenty seven to twenty eight
minutes from where I said, of course, it'll be midnight
Pacific time literally, and perhaps from wherever you're listening, it'll
be midnight Pacific time literally or certainly figuratively. We call
it the midnight hour. We'll take your calls eight seven

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seven ninety nine one fox eight seven seven nine nine
six six three six nine. Now we have a situation though,
where what's interesting is you know, you know, joke and
poker winners tell jokes. Losers say shut up and deal.
A lot of folks back east and in the New
York area didn't take too kindly to see the Yankees
beaten the way they were beaten. Didn't necessarily want to

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give the Dodgers or flowers. They just simply believed the
Yankees choked. I actually heard one person on air saying
Yankee should be up three games to two. They blew
it in Game one. Boone mismanaged the game. Boone mismanaged
the game in Game five. YadA YadA, yah. We all okay,
we know about the drop fly ball from Aaron Judge

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his first air of the season, first air of the season.
Timing is sucks uh Anthony Volpe, the bad throw the
bulk to catcher, interference, cold not covering first base, five
hundred runs. But I see that as a Dodger's being resourceful.
Not according to New York fans. According to New York fans,

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they merely choked. Ask anybody in attendance of Game five
at the Yankee Stadium, the crowd, the buzz. There was
absolutely no doubt the New York Yankees were on their
way to forcing a Game six in Los Angeles, which
never had been done in the twenty four occasions in
the World Series where a team takes a three to

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zero lead, only three forced to game five. No one
forced the game six. Your lead five zip. Garrett Cole
was dealing and the offense was thumping finally, but then
the top of the fifth arrived and the all too
common meltdown that the Yankees have come to know was
a flash happened in a flash again. Judge makes his

(26:09):
first air of the entire year, dropping an easy flat
ball that puts runners on first and second, nobody out.
Then Anthony Volpa actually made a nice plan of ground ball,
but makes the throwing error on don't off balance attempt,
and then the bases are loaded. Cole was put in
an unfair situation, but I think he stepped up, struck
out the next two batters show Hey, one of them
was show Hey, and that left it up to a

(26:31):
nice cold Mookie Bets, who delivered for Los Angeles, hits
a little grounder, squibs a grounder, a little flare to
Anthony Rizzo, which appeared to be the final lot of
the inning, but Cole didn't cover first base, Bets was safe,
a run scored, and then when Freddy Freeman and ti
Oscar Hernandez both throve in two runs, a piece to
tae the game after falling behind and one two counts

(26:53):
one two counts. Stunning fashion, the Yankees all of a sudden,
in a matter of minutes, went from trailing five nine
to finally themselves tied. Now, the Yankees would later reclaim
the lead six ' five in the bottom of the sixth,
but they'd give it up on the top of the eighth.
And I know that the faithful Air in New York
have been basically accusing Aaron Boone maybe the right of

(27:14):
excessive use of the bullpen, and it finally came back
to bite him after Tommy Canley loaded the bases before
he could get a single out to sacrifice flies later,
quality at bats, quality at bats, Mookie knew he was
going to score up the bat on a foot on
a fastball. It was the bases were loaded, just a

(27:35):
great piece of hit and got the ball lifted its
center field and next thing you know, the Dodger lead
sixty five. Now I want to repeat this, and this
is why the Yankees feel the way they feel. Cared
to't know how many teams facing World Series elimination blew
a five run lead lost zero. Cared to know how
many times in World Series history, a team blew a
five run lead and lost. Okay, you heard my answer.

(27:57):
It was an historic choke job. According to the p
New York that takes the modern day franchise, the Yankees
to a failure of New Heights, and they are not
happy the Dodgers. Meanwhile, they notched the largest comeback in
an elimination World Series game and they win seven to six.

(28:17):
Teams trailing by five runs in the World Series, we're
six and two d and twenty seven chance to be eliminated.
They're owing thirty five. The numbers don't really add up.
If you're a Yankee fan. It's a rationalization. So I
ask you, we want to hear from you. I want
to hear from you. I don't. I don't. I don't
think this is This is not my narrative. Did the

(28:40):
Dodgers earned it? But in twenty three minutes, we want
to hear from you. Did the Dodgers really earn it?
Or did the Yankees really choke?

Speaker 5 (28:46):
And?

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Oh, by the way, here we go again. This has
been a recurring motif on the Bernie Frattle Show. I
was debating, do I do it again? More whack fan behavior?
You know? When a tany hurt and he hurt his shoulder.
Pretty clear he's hurt the entire series. There was video
circulating of a watch party in New York that fans

(29:09):
were cheering when Otani got hurt. That caught my eye.
And then who can forget? Who can ever forget? They've
joined the likes of Jeffrey Mayer and Bartman and blah
blah blah, Beavis and butt Head I'm not evenna bother
giving her real names, trying to twist Mookie's arm. And then, oh,
by the way, on the cancer night when they were
holding up science, fans were tawning, allegedly tawning Freddie Freeman

(29:33):
and his mom as he held up the cancer sign.
I want to call a reaction on fan behavior. Because
the Yankees were going to allow Beavis and butt Head
back into the game on Tuesday their season ticket holders.
And this kid did the interviews after the game and
he's like, yeah, man, I patrol that area, man I
defend the area. Believe he did. I guess sort of.
How'd that work out for you? And the Yankees were

(29:57):
gonna let those guys back. Major League Baseball said no,
they're not become back in the park. We will refund
their money, but they're not coming back in the park.
It's my understanding unless somebody knows more than me and
you can call, you know, check in the midnight hour
that this has not fully been adjudicated yet. For lack
of a better word, are they banned next year or
do they get to come back? Are they banned for life?

(30:18):
Or what is it a two week you know they
got to go on the idiot They'll go on their
own aisle, the idiot list for two weeks. I don't
know now. The Athletic, a very respectable publication, did a
fan survey and unanimously they believed those two knuckleheads should
be banned for life. Banned for life. So I want
to hear on two things that the Dodgers choke, our

(30:39):
Yankees choke, or the Dodgers really earned this and more
goofy fan behavior, fans cheering the town's injury to watch party,
Beavis and butt Head trying to twist Mookie's arm. That
really crosses a line. Don't tell me it doesn't you
get physical with a player like that. I told you
we're eighteen days away. The Malice at the Palace November nineteenth,
twenty oh four, the twenty year anniversary. When you start

(31:01):
to see goofy ass behavior like this, I think it
is potentially gateway behavior for something bigger. We've already seen
it happen with the mouse at the Palace. Don't think
it can't happen again. Mookie Betts just happens to be
a class act. What if he'd done that to Albert Bell?
What do you think would have happened? Then? Well, you
know what would have happened. So the long and the

(31:23):
short of it is, Dodgers, did they win? Or did
the Yankees choke Yankees? Again? More whack ass fan behavior?
What would you have done? How shocked were you to
hear that Beavis and butt heead would be allowed back
into the Yankee games or the Yankee game the next
night you know which, of course they weren't. But the

(31:43):
long and the short of it is the fact that
that happened really discussed a lot of people in Major
League Baseball. Hat to step in. Coming up, I'm gonna
talk a little bit about the rant, which is a
new part of the Midnight Hour if you're not particularly jiggy,
and the two subjects we got don't really have a
strong opinion. You can call him in, Rent and tell
us what's on your mind, what's bugging you, And I'll

(32:04):
give you a couple of examples of what I think
is a rant baby that I would call in on.
But I can't call in because I'm doing the show.
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the iHeartRadio app. All right, So did the Dodgers win it?
Or did the Yankees choke and crazy whack ass fan behavior.

(33:08):
You've got fans cheering O'tani's injury at a watch party.
You got Beeves and butt head Twisty, Mookie's arm tawning,
Freddy Freeman and his mom as he holds up cancer signs.
Want to get the call reaction? What should have happened
to the two guys? What should happen? I don't know
if they've decided their fate for next year. There's season
ticket holders and how surprised were you that they were
allowed back in? Or the Yankees were going to allow

(33:31):
them back in the next night until Major League Baseball
intervened and said, no, uh, not up in here, not
up in here, not now. But I've introduced something, and
by the way, again, we'll take your calls here in
eleven minutes eight seven seven nine nine six six three
six nine eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox The
Midnight Hour. It's literally midnight here from where I sit

(33:52):
in Las Vegas, and perhaps it's literally midnight where you're
at as well, But regardless, even if it's figuratively midnight,
it's the midnight hour. You're gonna have the last I
introduced something called the rant. Now, maybe you don't have
a particularly strong opinion on those those two subjects, or
you do, but maybe you have something you just want
to get off your chest. And I want to see

(34:14):
how this goes. But I think it can work because,
for instance, I mean, we have a finite amount of time.
One of the things I would rant about is this
popped into my head this week. You know, last year,
Dion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes got all kinds of love.
I mean, you know, the celebrity guest list on the

(34:34):
sideline was off the hook and they sucked. They went
four and eight and they weren't good. They couldn't block
or tackle. They were a lot of flash, a lot
of sizzle, and no steak. Well, this year they're very good.
Dion has turned it around with his coaching staff. They're
already Bowl eligible. They got two top five draft picks,
which you already knew. But they seem to have fix
their offensive and defensive line. They use they play better defense,

(34:56):
they tackle better, they run the ball better. They're a
good team. Call is a good team. See, I'm a
reasonable man. When when I see, you know, evidence of change. Look,
here's the bottom line, Why isn't Diane getting to love
this year? They poured it on him last year and
they didn't deserve it. This year, they very much deserve it.

(35:18):
Where is it? I don't see it to you tell
me what's going on? There is there a dynamic at play.
I'm not that smart. I'm no high school dropout. I
did go to full six years. But I don't have
all the answers. I'm not the burning bush. So here's here.
This is perfect, a perfect rant. Maybe you have an idea.
Did you hear what Travis Hunters had a couple of
weeks ago. Now, let's make no mistake, Travis Hunter is

(35:40):
the best football player in the country. If you don't
think that, you're first in line for front of the botomy,
all right, He's the best football He plays one hundred
and thirty plays every game on both sides of the ball,
and he puts up real numbers. I mean, I saw
it covered. Charles Woodson in Michigan is fabulous. They line
them up a wide receiver A couple of times he
did well, and he was the best defensive player in

(36:00):
the country. And he won the Heisman Trophy. Now Michigan
won the National Championship there or you know, the mythical
National Championship. They were undefeated. But Travis Center, it's my
understanding he said this, and if he didn't correct me,
he believes that because people hate Dion, that will cost
him the heisman. So that plays into my earlier question,
why isn't Dion getting the love when they deserved it

(36:23):
last year? The second question I have. You know, I
don't want to paint Aaron Rodgers and Dion Sanders with
the same brush, but you know, heading into this year,
they're kind of like two peas in a pod in
the sense that they perpetrate this version of themselves. It
sometimes appears to be inauthentic. I don't think Dion's a narcissist.

(36:44):
I do think Aaron Rodgers is a narcissist. And they're
both good at running a hustle. And what's interesting is
Aaron Rodgers we talked about this at the beginning of
the year. Callers. My callers are very smart. They believe
the Jets would fail. They don't like Aaron Rodgers. The
Jets got a stay of execution Thursday night, they finally
got their you know, third win. So three and six

(37:08):
isn't great, but it sounds better than two and seven.
But their run defense is not great. Early on, the
game was close. Houston had one hundred and fifty six
yards on the ground with their two top receivers out,
and they knew Joe Mixon was getting the ball and
didn't matter. He had one hundred and six yards and
everybody knew mixing was coming. That's not good. And let's

(37:30):
face it, the Jets mil mistakes. What the hell was
Malakai Corley thinking? I mean, is it really that important
that you celebrate and show bolt when you score a touchdown,
or even if you do, wait till you across the
damn goal line. They handed a brand new drive to
the Texans by hitting their punter. That can't happen, and
then Malachai Corley drops the ball before the goal line.

(37:51):
That's amateur hour stuff. Somehow the Jets escaped. We know
the Jets have talent, we know the Jets have a
good roster, and we know there are big time expectations.
We also know this team is deeply flawed. I'm sorry
they are. So when you saw that my rant last
night would would maybe sound something like this that I

(38:12):
saw what the Jets did, and I think it was
a dead cat bounce. I don't think they're going anywhere.
And you know what I don't. I don't root against
Aaron Rodgers. There's no point in that. But I don't
root for him either. I don't root for him. So
the long and the short of it is, we have
these issues. Did the Dodgers win or did the Yankees choke?
Bad fan behavior? Beavis and butt heead you saw what happened?

(38:34):
Your thoughts the rant? Come up with a rant. I
just gave you a couple of examples. Really look forward
to hearing from me. The callers have been fabulous eight
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Did they earn it? Or did the Yankees choke fan
crazy behavior? Again? You know what to do? And of
course the rant yup, it's time, it's midnight hour. Well,
as always, the callers are fabulous. I expect to be
no different tonight eight seven, seven, nine, ninety six six
three six nine, eight seven, seven, nine and nine on Fox.
So we go to Andrew in Bakersfield to lead us

(39:46):
out tonight. Good evening, Andrew, How are you good? How
are you good?

Speaker 10 (39:51):
Good?

Speaker 11 (39:51):
All right?

Speaker 10 (39:52):
I just basically want to talk about the Dodgers. Okay,
I take you back to Game four, inning one. He
Bets hits an unselfish base hit to right field, I believe,
or he gets a second, and Freddy Freeman hits a
home run. Do you remember how you felt like, oh
my gosh, what the heck? Okay, and Dodger de truk

(40:12):
two nothing, And then I saw what I thought was
like selfish possibly pitching, like they wanted to make their
stamp on that game, and maybe some selfish at bats.
But then you don't know all the information we find
out today. Tim Hudson was injured possibly and Jack Flaherty

(40:34):
possibly had tightness in the hamstring. Anyways, so game five,
fifth inning, I'm starting, I'm like, what is going on? Okay?
And I started thinking, now, wait a second. I remember
in the first inning of Game four, and I thought
everything was good, and so I started thinking back to that,

(40:55):
and I started thinking, remember Freddy, Remember Freddy. I'm telling
you this is what I was thinking in my head.
And some time around that time, all that stuff started happening.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
Well, so stand line. I mean, Game four was the
Dave Roberts I'm going to manage this Johnny whole staff
game because I want to line up my three aces
just in case, right, and I know people call it
into question, and they led to nothing, and then the
Yankees came back what was ten six or whatever it was,
go ahead. And then you get to Game five and
all the all hell broke loose because the Yankees, you

(41:32):
were about to say something, go ahead.

Speaker 10 (41:35):
Yeah, So in game one, when we were honoring Fernando Valenzuela,
you know, Freddie hits the walk off Grand Slam and
the crowd's going, Freddy Freddy and Oral Hersheiser said that
it was crazy to hear that because that's what he
used to call Fernando. He used to call him Freddy. Yeah,

(41:55):
and anyway, so I was thinking that the Dodgers started
thinking back to that dude, like wait a second, and
that first and we were up to nothing, and I
think that Yankees started thinking about it, and then Judge
shopped the ball. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Do you think they choked in, Andrew? Do you think
there's something to then?

Speaker 12 (42:14):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (42:15):
Yeah, I mean, yeah for sure.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Okay, that's why I'm trying to glean where you're going
with this. All right, So you're acknowledging that, you're acknowledging
the Dodgers and their greatness, But there's a savvy that
believes there was a lot of choke on the side
of the Yankees.

Speaker 10 (42:28):
Right, Yeah, it was crazy, but the Dodgers, you know,
uh made hits.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
That's it, all right. Appreciate you as always, Andrew. And
that's the thing, man, remember in life. Yeah, you want
to beat the right place at the right time, but
you better do something about it otherwise what does it matter.
We go out to Guardena where we're joined by the
legend the comedic stylings Manuel and Guardina no Manuell. I
only watched part of the parade on TV today, but
I think I saw you there, man, Were you there?

Speaker 13 (42:57):
I just want to say, oh, man, you know I
was celebrating the day, yet I was in downtown to
the LA today, Bernie.

Speaker 11 (43:08):
I was there Wednesday night.

Speaker 14 (43:09):
I did a B line and I found myself on
Fifth and Broadway at about ten twenty. Saw that cat
dancing topless on top of an RTV. Saw about one
hundred mounted lapd and about a thousand more riot gear cops.
But you know what, man, it was a beautiful, beautiful
night Wednesday, and it was even more beautiful today, man,

(43:33):
Like there was literally millions.

Speaker 15 (43:35):
In the streets.

Speaker 14 (43:36):
Streets were shut down. I know you're familiar with downtown La, Bernie. Oh,
I mean you had you had four lane streets that
were completely shut down, thousands of millions of Dodgers fans everywhere,
and it was peaceful for the most part.

Speaker 5 (43:52):
Man.

Speaker 14 (43:53):
So it was just a great thing.

Speaker 13 (43:55):
Man.

Speaker 14 (43:56):
Since eighty eight, you know, I was in eighth grade
back then and go to the prey then, But I
would damn sure there this time and answer your main question,
did the Dodgers winner? Did the Yankees choke? My answer
is yes, a resounding yes on both. Yes, man, and
you know that, Bernie, Hey, the pin strikes.

Speaker 13 (44:18):
Just what if, for whatever.

Speaker 14 (44:19):
Reason, Man, they didn't live.

Speaker 15 (44:22):
Up to the moment.

Speaker 14 (44:22):
You know that squad is laden with just as many
superstars as the Dodgers are, So you got to give
Doc Roberts and Andrew Friedman their flowers for sure. I
mean they did a hell of a job as well
as the whole roster top to bottom. And I know
you as a former minor league ballplayer, Bernie, you could
appreciate that because you know how much goes into.

Speaker 12 (44:44):
It and a good way.

Speaker 6 (44:46):
Man.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
Well, I got to hear your thoughts on Beavis and
butt head of Yankee Stadium yanked Mookie's arm.

Speaker 14 (44:52):
So I wouldn't go as far as banning them for life.
I think MLB did the right thing banning. I'm all
for heckling, but you can't physical, man, especially with ball
players and athletes, and that's a no no anytime.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
All right, great call as always, Man, Well hope you
had a good time and we always appreciate hearing from you.
Poppy in San Diego. We got a lot of subjects tonight.

Speaker 16 (45:15):
What do you got hey, Well, look I love Bernie.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
My guy.

Speaker 16 (45:21):
I was gonna say, look about the Yankees choking. Of
course they choke, choke hartist. But I told my friend
earlier this year, you know, rest and peace to his
father in law. He was a big Dodger fan, and
I told him, look, I have a feeling in the
universe the Dodgers are going to win the world surface
on Dodger's gonna win. He's like, well, I sure, hope.

(45:42):
So I'm like he's happy from another his other universe
with everything he's he's smiling, He's happy the biggest Dogger fans.
But what I was going to tell you about beaversaid,
but so Beable said, but take look Bernie, like when
they were going and they were fighting it, I feel
like they were both in there. Like back in the
day's fan will do that and recle the fans by

(46:03):
feary like they wanted to be, like, yo, we want
you to fear New York. This is New York. The
only thing that was missing, Bernie is like you know,
back in the days the Roman Empire, they had to
put a thumbs up or thumbs down to break up
that arm, like that was the only thing that was
missing because they literally were gonna break his arm like
MMA style. But I feel like it's good that. Look,

(46:27):
they didn't break his arm and he didn't get hurt.
They were just trying to get the ball. I think
it's a bad take on MLB, like like saying, hey,
this guy couldn't go there because like, this guy's a
season ticket holder, and and the Yankees were not going
to ban them, and they just said, hey, you can't
go there. He'll be back with the Yankees.

Speaker 14 (46:44):
They're going to ban them.

Speaker 16 (46:45):
They were not going to ban them, and they're.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Next year they'll be welcome back.

Speaker 16 (46:49):
Yeah, he'll be back. And I yeah, Bernie, he'll be back.
And I think the fans have the right like, hey,
try to get the ball. They were trying to just
get the ball and take it away from him. Get
a chuvenir. But I don't agree with like trying to
break the arm. You know, just get in the bows, okay,
but not you.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
It was a bad look, man, You can't do that.
And then thanks a lot, Poppy appreciate it. And then
Rob Gonkrawski comes out and he's he's buddies with this guy.
I forget the dude's name, something Copacaban or some damn thing.
What does it matter? Himberto in San Diego, you're up next,
Good evening. How are you all? Every b bny TOO.

Speaker 17 (47:27):
Movie and movie and Bernie? Listen about those two bosos.
They should say they have to take their season set away.
They have to because it's gonna get worse. Now, I'm
gonna ask you a question. Do you think that would
have done the same thing to Gary Sheffield?

Speaker 16 (47:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (47:47):
I think they're idiots. Actually, there was an incident with
Gary Sheffield in Boston back in two thousand and five.
Mm hmm, so yeah, Okay, your point is taken. Now
we don't know how chef would react to chefs are
really good, dude, man, he came through Detroit. But your
point is taken. Here's why I am saying that. In

(48:10):
emberto I'm stuttering, yes, because we're headed toward another Mounts
at the Palace, Okay, and I fordic toe no. But
it seems like how many conversations have we had on
the show about whack ass fan behavior in the past
five weeks and the incidents kept getting stupider? Is that
a word. It is now go ahead, finish up, Colberto.

Speaker 17 (48:30):
Yeah, and I agree with you and what the Yankees
did and trying to allow them and for mb to
intervene and then the Yankees get in their money back. Listen,
the Yankees are a class organization. They've then all forever
that I know. They made some tough decisions on situations
with players. I admired them for that. They dropped the

(48:52):
ball on these ones. But on the other subject, Yeah,
I don't think the Yankees show. The Dodgers had their number.
It wasn't matter of time. What happened in the fifteen inning,
Judge did a little played. He they caught n't looking.
He was looking at kicker nan this he was yes,

(49:12):
and voltee through it to the left side. He said,
all the right and the worst one was the brain
cramp that Garrett Cole had.

Speaker 12 (49:21):
You had to cover first.

Speaker 17 (49:24):
But the Dodger score, the Yankees went ahead, and the
Dadgers came back again in the eighth, so they earned it.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
They want it, Yeah, they want it.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
That's what I think.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Appreciate you Bert, both good on both subjects. And I'm
going to give Garrett Cole a bit of a Hall
Pass and this is what one of the New York
guys said twenty one minutes on the mound. No one
came out to talk. Give him a breather, because with
the pitch clock, now you got a pitch, pitch pitch.
He threw an additional seventeen pitches. Garrett Cole did because
of all the miscues. I think he was mentally tired,

(49:55):
mentally shot, and that's why he didn't cover first. Am
I giving him an excuse? No, But I'm giving people
perspective that I think is somewhat accurate. AB Jim Rudy,
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Are back on the Bernie Frattle Show Fox Sports Radio.
We continue on with the midnight hour. Let's get to
these callers. AB in Canada, thanks for your patience. We're
part of Kenaday.

Speaker 18 (50:43):
Calling from I'm calling from Ottaway right now.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
All right, very good sir. What have we got for
us tonight?

Speaker 18 (50:49):
Okay, So I'll take a run at the third option
that you had when it comes to Dion Sanders and
the bus.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Okay, good, So.

Speaker 15 (50:58):
I have to go again what you say, and probably.

Speaker 18 (51:01):
What most of the national media is saying on the
basis of when you look at who they've been playing,
they have only faced three teams in the top fifty
right now, and their record against those teams is one
and two, and they have another one coming up today
and I'm assuming that they're going to lose that as well,

(51:23):
so they'll be one in three. So I forget who
I heard it from on FS one, but they were
I believe it was Colin and he said that there's
a possibility that Dion and Schadur could turn a club around,
an NFL club around, and I'm just I'm wondering how

(51:44):
that is when they have faith like very lesser opponents.
So they really haven't had any actual opponents to gauge
how good is or how how good the Deon's coaching is.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Or we'll stay on the line, This is a good call.
I like this. First of all, Colorado has a by Saturday.
They don't play again until next week. They're at Texas
Tech and then they finish and then you know, their
schedule is not easy. They got Utah, Kansas and Oklahoma State.
Here's what I'm seeing. I'm seeing progression on both sides
of the ball. And so I get that. You know,

(52:22):
maybe UCFS not a world beater, and certainly Colorado State's not.
And if they were to play Nebraska again tomorrow, I
don't know if they beat him, but the game would
be different. But your point is well taken. But if
you look at how they've progressed, they're pretty good now.
So we'll find out. You know, next Saturday, have to
go to Texas Tech. Make a liar out of me.
We'll see. They're already bull eligible. Now regarding Shador, he's

(52:47):
very projectable. He's he's going to be a top five pick.
He'll do well in the NFL. I don't know if
he turns the team around, and I don't know if
Dion would, And I think it would be shocked if
Dion were to accept the job coaching in the National
Football League. So I don't agree with Calm on that
at all. You got the last word.

Speaker 9 (53:02):
Well.

Speaker 18 (53:02):
For sure, for the draft, I believe Sor will probably
go top five, But for my own personal projection, I
wouldn't take them that high just because if you look
at b YU and Boise State in the last the
last decade, their schedules are fairly comparable to what Colorado's

(53:23):
is this year basically.

Speaker 11 (53:25):
So basically you had.

Speaker 18 (53:28):
A couple of BYU and Boise State Boise State quarterbacks
putting up unbelievable numbers, but everyone, everyone was never really
looked at them that highly just because of the competition
that they were facing. So when I look at shador
standards stats this year, his stats are good, but they're

(53:49):
not They're not eye popping. He's only he's averaging less
than three touchdowns of the game. He's averaging just over
three hundred a game. And this is against again mediocre
to below average opponents, whereas you have top top five
teams that are as putting up equally as good numbers.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Got a good stuff, aby, I appreciate you and don't
be a stranger. We do this every Friday night. I
think Schudor is very projectable, though, he operates from the pocket,
he keeps his eyes downfield. He's got a lot to learn,
but he will. But there have been plenty of guys
who faced good competition in college, like justin Fields. His
game doesn't translate to the NFL at all. These are
just Anthony Richardson. So there's not necessarily a correlation between

(54:38):
where you played and where you end up. Because you know,
Carson Wentz was at North Dakota State and before he
got hurt, he had the Eagles almost in the super Bowl.
So it's very complex, very complex issue. But I appreciate
your knowledge and your thought pattern, Jim in Massachusetts, So
I look forward to what you've got to hear every week.
What we got tonight, Jim.

Speaker 19 (54:58):
I think the thing Garni with the Yankees that well
York fans are crazy. It doesn't matter what sport you
go to. So that's the answer there. And the thing
is when he grabbed the guy, I.

Speaker 20 (55:12):
Guess you pulling the ball out of the glove, But
when the other.

Speaker 19 (55:14):
Guy grabbed his arm and he became incapacitated, Yeah, I
see you at the door, you know, and I'm sure alcohol.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Was involved, Oh absolutely, So what do you listen, let
me ask you a question. If they Yankees called up
Jim in Massachusetts, what should we do with these guys?
What would you do with him next year? Because I
don't think that's been decided yet.

Speaker 20 (55:36):
Hey, the season ticket holders just say again and you're out.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
I mean everybody. One striker, yeah, right, one more striking? Yeah.
Any thoughts on whether the Yankees choked or the Dodgers.

Speaker 20 (55:48):
One, Well, I think I think the Dodgers. I'll play them.
And let's face this, Bernie, I'm totally wrong with what
was said about the pitcher. I mean, ever since you
start playing T ball, they slip. First thing, the coach says,
what are you going to do when the ball hits
to you? And if it's not hit to you, where

(56:08):
are you're going? Where you're covering? It was a mental
last by him not getting over.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
The first none the lapse. I think he was mentally shot.

Speaker 11 (56:14):
And acrossed him.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
You know, it's a big time that opened the door.
The score was five to nothing, Jim when Mookie hit
that little flare that pushed one run across the plate.
The next two hitters he worked at one or two
cop they both got hits in its five to five.
So he listened that how that's how baseball works. Oh

(56:35):
my god, that's it.

Speaker 12 (56:39):
Burn and go get him kid.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
All right, thanks man, appreciate you, Jim a lot. Look
think about what he said. Because baseball is a thinking
man sport. You are taught expect the ball, expect the ball,
and know what you're going to do when you get it.
So he brings up a good point, Rudy, and North
Hollywood joins us. Tonight, Hi, Rudy, how.

Speaker 11 (56:59):
Are you doing well? For any doing well? I just
want to say about the Dodgers. The Yankees did choke.
But what happens losers choked? They got beat in two
of the three games.

Speaker 14 (57:13):
They were leading the.

Speaker 11 (57:14):
Games and the Dodgers came back. That doesn't you know
you can't put the whole series on one inning because
there would have been two more games to play that
the Dodgers only needed to win one.

Speaker 4 (57:26):
The Yankees got.

Speaker 11 (57:27):
Better hitters that could hit the ball harder and further.
Gary Cole by far the best pitcher that was in
that World Series, and the Dodgers were just topped the bottom.
Just a better team. Just line it across.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
I think the Dodgers were the better team. They were
the more complete team, they were the more mentally tough team,
the more composed team, and I think that bore out
And I think, you know, for my way of thinking, Rudy,
that yes, that you can't pin it all on one inning,
but that any I think became a metaphor for the
entire five game series.

Speaker 11 (58:02):
Agreed, Absolutely, agreed. I mean, but do you blame You
don't blame the players for what happened in Game one?
I mean you blame Aaron Boone, right, he walked Mookie.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
We say where I blame Aaron Boone? You pull Garrett
Cole your ace after eighty eight pitches because I think
he panicked after giving up a single. The Yankees led
that game two to one. I'm riding my horse. I
d you know. One of the reasons I had this
topic tonight is, you know, kept my finger on the
pulse of what they're saying in New York and they're
not too happy with Aaron Boone and you got badly

(58:34):
out managed. Do you have any thoughts on the fan behavior?

Speaker 11 (58:38):
Yes? Absolutely. I was season ticket older for the Dodgers
for like the last ten years, and it says in
the terms of service that these tickets can be revoked,
you could be expelled from the field. And so like
the fact that not only the fact that you said
they were going to let them back in, but I
heard they gave them their money back. They did, and

(59:00):
that's that's outrageous. Like it's I wouldn't go as far
as to say that it was assault, but like you said,
mouse in the palace, what you saw how upset Profar
was people throwing balls near him. What if it was
somebody that really had a hot head and started jumping
out into the into the stains. Like the players fans
are terrible, like what you said about the fans celebrating

(59:22):
the injuries. There's some terrible human beings. I've sat in
bleachers and heard the things, and the players don't react
and and props on them to be able to take it.
But when you grab somebody, somebody's just going to react,
and then what will you be?

Speaker 2 (59:38):
And it's happened in hockey, it's happened in baseball before.
It certainly happened in basketball. And yeah, you're not wrong,
all right, Appreciate you, Rudy, don't be a stranger. Do
this every Friday night at midnight to midnight hour, Josh
and Pennsylvania. Let's get you in here. Good evening.

Speaker 21 (59:54):
How are you hey, Vernie, first time caller, long listener.

Speaker 14 (59:59):
Appreciate you man that the Yankees choked.

Speaker 21 (01:00:01):
I mean I can't recall whether in a World Series
game or any postseason game where it was.

Speaker 18 (01:00:08):
You know, it was just like one after the other
after the other.

Speaker 21 (01:00:11):
Weren't they all in the same inning?

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
These errors, almost all of them were are the the
the catcher's interference in the back? I think we're in
different innings, but all five runs are on.

Speaker 21 (01:00:23):
Earned Yeah, And you know that's not to take anything
away from the Dodgers. I mean, this isn't you know,
a Super Bowl where a mistake or mistakes and I
mean it's a five game series, a better team won.
But it definitely I remember here in that Fernando had
passed away that week and just thinking, you know.

Speaker 22 (01:00:43):
How strange, you know, for the first time, and you know,
forty something years, the Dodgers are playing the Yankees, and
it's you know, I'm not an overly spiritual person.

Speaker 21 (01:00:54):
I don't think that a higher power cares about the
outcome of a baseball game. But I was really sitting
and they're wondering, like, you know, this feels like something
out of field of dreams.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
You know, well, you're not wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Thanks a lot that, Joshua, were good observations. And look,
we talked about the eerie similarities between the eighty eight Dodgers,
Gibby and Freddie. I remember Oral going in in the bolt,
coming out of the bullpen in New York to get
it out. Walker Buehler comes in on two days. I mean,

(01:01:29):
there were lots of similarities. And the one thing I'll
say about this Dodgers team, and that is this in
the past when the Dodgers had great teams in the seventies,
and they look, they went to the they went to
the World Series in seventy four, seventy seven, seventy eight,
eighty one. A lot of times the Eastern media would
portray them as sort of this Hollywood version of a

(01:01:50):
Madison Avenue facade. This team was gritty, gutty, they'll fight you.
You want to have a fist fight in the phone booth,
the there for it. They picked each other up, they
never got down. They're managed by a field general that
probably truly isn't is appreciated because he keeps that clubhouse
during the playoffs. Every year they've been knocking on the door.
This was so well deserved. Foster hollering, James don and

(01:02:13):
New Orleans and David Phoenix, hang tight, we are getting
to all you. The first real quick update by our guy,
the chef, Kevin Wire.

Speaker 7 (01:02:21):
Yeah, it was all jubilation in LA today as they
had the parada. Over two hundred and fifty thousand people
reported there in Los Angeles. And another team feeling great
about their chances for a championship, Boise State, as they
look like they very well could be the team.

Speaker 9 (01:02:36):
That gets the Group of five playoff spot. O'Neil takes
it to Cooper.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
It throws at the right side in intercepted at the
thirty three by McCoy.

Speaker 9 (01:02:44):
It's a pick six. It's twenty to nothing. McCoy ran
the play all the way.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
He didn't buy the fake to Cooper at Boise State
leading twenty to nothing.

Speaker 7 (01:02:55):
Kboy Radio there with the callers. The Broncos rolled away
fifty six twenty four win against San Diego State to
move to seven and one on the season. They're four
to zero in Mountain West play Yukon Bowl eligible. The
Husky six and three after a thirty four to twenty
seven win at home against Georgia's State and in the
NBA huge matchup between the Timberwolves and Nuggets and it's
Minnesota holding off Denver one nineteen one sixteen behind twenty

(01:03:18):
nine points from Anthony Edwards. But uh not good news
though for the Nuggets. On top of the loss, Jamal
Murray had to leave the game in the third quarter.
He is now in a concussion of proto call Thunder
over the Trailblanzers one thirty seven, one to fourteen, Pelkins
meet the Pacers won twenty five one eighteen, Lakers over
the Raptors won thirty one, won twenty five, the defending

(01:03:39):
champion Celtics over the Hornets one twenty four to one
oh nine.

Speaker 9 (01:03:44):
Thank you, Bernie, All.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
Right, think chef h eight seven seven nine nine six
six three six nine eight seven seven nine nine O. Fox,
Still plenty of time to get in. We want to
hear from you. Did the Dodgers winner of the Yankees
choke fan behavior. You saw about the two knuckleheads I
call beefs and buthead and then the rank you got
something else you want to get off of Chest Foster

(01:04:05):
in Los Angeles thanks to your patience. You're up next.

Speaker 23 (01:04:09):
Hey, Bernie, I like to pay you a compliment. I
only listen to your show because you have great topics
and you're very on bias, unlike the other talk shows
on that particular station that you're on. There's such homers.
And I used to be a Dodger fan while growing up,

(01:04:29):
as you remember, during the good old days of the
seventies with Davey Lopes and that great infield. It was
a great time to be a fan then because we
never had any problems with so called fans instigating fights
like they do now. And the Dodger fans, most of them,
I won't say all of them, but most of them
are very misinformed fans. They just want to be seen

(01:04:54):
being a Dodger fan. They probably can't even mention a
second favorite Dodger player on that squad. And before I
get to my baseball take on what happened to the
Yankees on the Padres, what do you think in that
I foresee the Steelers, who I'm still a fan of

(01:05:15):
that team, but not as much, but I foresee the
Steelers making a trade before the trading deadline because I
think Tomlin and Art Rooney. The second they want to
do something which they haven't done in fifteen years, hopefully
go to the Super Bowl and win it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Well, the answer is, I know, I covered the Lions
for ten years. Foster and GMS are going to be
working the phones incessantly between now and Tuesday, depending on
what their need is, depending on what they're willing to
give up to get and what the salary cap implications are.
But I know they're like most teams. I'm going to
talk about this. I got a five hour show Saturday

(01:05:53):
night because a staylight saving time. Everybody, don't forget to
tear back the clock. I expect them to try. You
just never know because surprised to pay for everything. Foster,
what are you going to say about the go ahead?

Speaker 23 (01:06:03):
Yeah, and I would like to give you my take.
Like I said, I'm not a Dodger fan anymore, and
I'm not a baseball fan anymore. But I'll watch the postseason.
But clearly, clearly the Yankees and prior to the Yankees,
the Padres. Both of those teams choked because the Padres

(01:06:23):
in the first place, they had a two to one lead.
All they had to do was win one more game
and Hugh Darvish pitched a great game. Yeah, Hernandez hit
that home run, but the bats went to sleep. For
the Padres, all bats went to sleep. And what the Yankees.

(01:06:44):
I have never seen a sequence of mental, stupid mistakes
committed by these professional athletes. I couldn't believe what I
was watching. I just say, I asked myself, is this
little league baseball? Here's the bad News Bears? How well
can the Yankees give up a five oh lead? And

(01:07:07):
let me tell you, Dave Roberts was shivering in his
boots when when the Yankees were leading five oh because
he said I'm sure he felt it. He said, Man,
if we lose this game, I'm pretty sure the Yankees
are gonna win game six and seven.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
I don't know about who he's thinking that, big fellow,
but but good stuff, Foster. We do this every Friday night.
Don't call back again. I want to make sure I
get all the callers in. And I do like the
bad News Bears reference. I will tell you Cole coach boris,
Buttermaker would not have allowed that. And I'm calling Aaron
Boone into question just a little bit because the team
takes on the personality the field general. This team did

(01:07:45):
not have an edge the Yankees. Right, Holler and James,
thanks for your patience. You're up next.

Speaker 5 (01:07:50):
Holler and James has got the real deal. And it's
a happy meal for the Elie Dodgers. They served them,
played up to the Yankees and took it in five.
They should have swept him in four, but it didn't happen.
That's all right. They still got the victory and the postseason.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
All right, Thanks James. I appreciate it. I had hell,
I had no idea any of that happened. But I
always appreciate you checking in, James, appreciate the energy. Don
in New Orleans? Is this your first time calling during
the midnight hour?

Speaker 11 (01:08:27):
Yes, it is Burn.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
How well, good sir, welcome in. Glad to hear from you.

Speaker 12 (01:08:31):
Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm going to the rant.

Speaker 16 (01:08:34):
Can you send some fof down here to New Orleans?

Speaker 21 (01:08:36):
Man?

Speaker 11 (01:08:37):
We need a coach and maybe a team here.

Speaker 4 (01:08:39):
Man, were going down and.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
Actually, I think I hate to say this, Don, I
think you guys need a chaplain. Yes, yeah, go ahead,
go ahead, buddy.

Speaker 16 (01:08:50):
What would you think if we get Old Drew Breathe
to come out here and be the new head coach.

Speaker 15 (01:08:54):
You think he can do it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
I don't know, man, Drew's got the red ass and
this is such a I know what you mean.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
I know what you mean.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
They need that kind of fire that he brought when
they won, you know, Super Bowl forty four back in
twenty ten. But the Saints got talent. I never thought
I thought Dennis Allen was a dead man last year.
But those are just my thoughts.

Speaker 12 (01:09:18):
Yeah, okay, we're going to do a second line just
for him, freefully.

Speaker 11 (01:09:21):
Something will happen with that. Thank you, man, have a
good morning.

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
All right, thanks man, call again. Don appreciate you. Let's
squeeze at another one here, David Phoenix, what's up, Dave?

Speaker 12 (01:09:32):
Well, Hi, Bernie.

Speaker 24 (01:09:33):
First of all, I don't think the Padres choked just
because they had two games to one in the best
of five and lost the last two games. The Yankees
absolutely gave away Game five. That was really something you
won't say for decades a scenario like that.

Speaker 11 (01:09:50):
However, I do believe the Dodgers would have probably.

Speaker 24 (01:09:53):
Won Game six at home with Yamamoto going against Rodin,
and if not, they'd have a good chance in Game
seven with Bueller going against Clark Schmidt. So I think
to say that the Dodgers were given the World Series
that would be wrong, but I think they were given
Game five. I'd also like to go back to Game
one just to mention two plays that maybe aren't talked
about enough. One, when Glabor Torres hit that ball that

(01:10:17):
was ruled fan interference and not a home run. Are
we sure that that wasn't really a home run? I'm
still not sure about that. And then in the tenth anyone, Oh,
Tommy hit that foul ball down the left field line.
Verdugo made a great catch, but unfortunately for him, he
fell out a play which allowed both runners to advance,

(01:10:40):
and then Mooki to be walked, and that set up
Freddie Freeman. So what a difference that play might have
made if he managed to stay in and play, and
all of a sudden, Mookie's batting against the right handed pitcher,
and who knows what would have happened.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
I'm glad you brought up that fan catch. That's another
item I omitted, another dumbass fan maneuver. Do you have
any final thoughts on us and butt Head and the
Yankees and that whole situation?

Speaker 5 (01:11:03):
Oh, it was.

Speaker 24 (01:11:04):
Horrible behavior by the fans. I don't know if they
need a lifetime ban, but I think maybe they should
at least be moved back a few rows, not allowed
to be right up there on the right.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
I'm thinking that, yeah, thinking all right, Thanks Dave, appreciated
as always. Nobody go away. We're gonna get Mike and
Danny up next. The minute hour continues again. We couple guys,
did weigh in on some rat That's fine. Do you
guys speak your mind? That's what this hour is for.
Or if you need me to lead the witness, give

(01:11:38):
me your thoughts. Did the Dodgers winter, the Yankees choke?
And oh, by the way, fan behavior, what are your
thoughts about what transpired this past week? By the way,
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(01:12:18):
come to you live the tire rec dot Com studios
here in Las Vegas. As we wrap things up on
the midnight hour, Mario in Bakersfield, joint us. Mario, thanks
for hanging on. Appreciate you. Hey, Bernie, how are you
doing well? Thank you good.

Speaker 1 (01:12:36):
So.

Speaker 15 (01:12:37):
I don't think then the Yankee choked that game. I
think the Dodgers are given opportunities and they took advantage
of the situation given to them. Because other than Game four,
the Insines had opportunities to win the game and they
couldn't capitalize unlike the Dodgers. So I mean they didn't

(01:13:00):
show it. They just didn't play well. I mean that's
turning down to they took the wrong time of.

Speaker 18 (01:13:05):
The year to play.

Speaker 15 (01:13:06):
They have their worst series.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
I think the reason standalone. I think the reason that
some New York folks characterize it in that way is
because it's such a the egregious nature forgetting to cover
first the air and throws the drop fly balls, and
they stacked on top of each other and you wonder
sometimes what's going on between the years. Do you have
any thoughts Mario on the fan behavior.

Speaker 15 (01:13:30):
Oh, you know, I'm fifty eight and I've seen a
lot of crazy stuff, but that was ridiculous. I mean,
you know, I'm glad to see they weren't they weren't
weren't allowed back in.

Speaker 17 (01:13:42):
I did like this.

Speaker 15 (01:13:44):
I don't think they should be banned for live, but
I did like the idea of them having the Susan
chickets moved away from the rails so they can't do
that again. I think that would be fair.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
I'm kind of watching this. Thank you, Mario, appreciate it. Uh,
I'm kind of why this basically to see what the
Yankees do. Mike in Lancaster, thanks for joining us. You're
up next, Hey, Bernie, how you doing good? Thank you, sir.

Speaker 25 (01:14:11):
I want to say thank you for everything you do.
I've made many trips to Vegas and it's your voice
and your calming presence is something that I need at
the end of a long day, and I just wanted
to say thank you for that. That's something that is
appreciated more than you than you know, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
Well, I appreciate you listening. I appreciate the kind words.
Any thoughts on the go ahead.

Speaker 25 (01:14:39):
Well, my wife and I were watching the fans. We
were disgusted with how vulnerable Mookie looked. And I think
us as human beings, we need to start really checking
ourselves and being careful as to who we mess with,
because these players are going to start bouncing back and

(01:15:00):
that's the last thing we want to see, you know.
That's my opinion on that. But the choking aspect of
it all Freddy Freeman and everything that that man went
through him to make history and us to get show
Hay and to be without so many pictures that were
supposed to be there, like Dustin May and there's a

(01:15:23):
bunch of guys I could name that weren't even present.
And it's the epitome of a team effort. And I
think this is one of the most special groupings that
we've ever seen. And I'm quite happy to be alive
at this time after everything we've been through with COVID
and how rough that was on us. It did a

(01:15:47):
number on me and my family.

Speaker 11 (01:15:49):
I lost my mother in.

Speaker 25 (01:15:51):
The process, and I used to go to Vegas just
to see her, and it was always at night at
this time and I'd always hear your voice and I
continue to listen to you, you know. But sports is special, man,
you know, and this is a special one. I think

(01:16:12):
that this is one of the most special Dodgers teams
that we're going to see for a very long time.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
And I appreciate that, Mike. I just want to get
to the next car. But thanks for everything. Appreciate you, man,
Danny and Coasta Mason. You'll wrap it up tonight.

Speaker 12 (01:16:25):
What are your thoughts, Hey, Bernie, just gonn. I'm gonna
address that one gentleman about Dodger fans. I'm born nineteen six.
My mom's water broke at Dodger State opening dates paid
for the ninth inning, and I'll play you what Dogs
go Ahead, the true story. I've been a fan ever since,
and I played Baulty College, and you know, southern California

(01:16:47):
we play year round. Our fans are very knowledgeable. They
know the pipeline of who's in the miners coming up,
so he's kind of lots in state. I just won't
even go further on it, but I'll tell you the
only people that wanted to be seen are like the
Tollin Cowers who never talked baseball until now and show
up to be seeing it's not the general public fawn behaviors.

(01:17:10):
Though I will dress that. I'm not going to take
the size of the guy that caught the home run ball.
You know, the glaver tore his ball, But if you
look in his eyes went on the close up, he
wasn't even looking at the player. The ball did at you.
And you know the Nats where he act he played ball.
He had his mat. He's sitting on what they call
the home lund seat, and he's looking the ball into

(01:17:31):
his bed. He wasn't trying to. I don't think he
was interfer I.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
Think, and I'm up against the clock. I appreciate your calling,
Uh I would give. I know immediately after that knucklehead
caught the ball, maybe he's not a knucklehead. He just reacted.
He had a he had a moment of self awareness,
and I think he got the hell out of there
and I think he realized, oh man, if he had
to do over again, you wouldn't have done it. This

(01:17:59):
this team must be and we all look at it
from our own perspective. I've never said this on the
year I went to Almadina High School, same high school
a Freddy Freeman, and yes, I played baseball there and
back in two thousand and four. My good friend Ira Green,
the father of Sean I've known that family forever. I said,
you got to come out. I was living in Michigan.
See his kid plays a freshman third basement. Pretty good
player kid by the name of Freddie Freeman. That was

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back in two thousand and four. So this was special.
The Dodgers deserved it. I agree the Yankees open the door,
but the Dodgers had to take advantage. Great job by
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(01:19:05):
We all love movies and that's why we talk movies,
and what we'd like to do is go around the
room and have a little movie around table, and uh,
I would just say, it's that time. It's movie time, not.

Speaker 26 (01:19:18):
One, not two, but three. Amazing sports, it's entertainment, it's good.
It's Breeze three.

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
All right, take it awavery al radius.

Speaker 27 (01:19:31):
So, as we've been talking about all night, obviously, the
Dodgers won the World Series, which is really exciting obviously
for all of us here. Kevin Weyer is actually all
dressed up in Dodger gear, so that's awesome. So with
the Dodgers winning the World Series, I decided to dedicate
Breeze three to movies that took place or have to
do specifically with the city of La since we did

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New York a few weeks ago, because the Mets and
the Yankees were in the MLB post season. So I'm
gonna start off with something kind of just probably a
lot of us have seen the movie La La Land.
You know, obviously, Ryan Gosling Emma Stone their second movie
together after Crazy Stupid Love, Super fun kind of you know,

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American musical, romantic comedy slash drama. It was actually filmed
in more than sixty locations in La Wow, yeah, and
so like from like Burbank to a little bit of
the valley and Encino so and a little bit outside
into like Long Beach area, so it's still like La County.

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So I thought that would be one of my movies.
And then the second one, I Went Training Day two
thousand and one. Denzel Washington ethan Hawk, and it was
actually based on the Rampart Rampart Division scandal, the police
corruption scandal that had to do with crash that yeah,
the community resources against street hoodlums, the anti gang unit

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of this, the LAPG Rampart Division, and that kind of
took place between like the ninth the mid to late nineties,
so it was based on that, and it the film
was kind of filmed okay, The film was okay. The
movie was filmed within like South Central Crenshaw, Inglewood, and

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Echo Park, also Lincoln Heights. And then the King Kong
speech by Denzel Washington that we all know and love
that was actually improvised by him, which is actually kind
of interesting. And then my last movie, because I love
Keanu Reeves more than I love coffee and everything else
in my life, I went Speed the nineteen ninety four movie, Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:21:44):
Nice and yeah yeah, we're yea.

Speaker 27 (01:21:50):
And so the highway scenes were shot on the one
oh five, but it wasn't finished yet, so that was
actually kind of interesting. So it was finished a few
days after the filming ended, so the crew painted all
of the pavement lines and put up all the highway signs,
so that was actually something a little bit interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:22:08):
And then.

Speaker 28 (01:22:10):
River Phoenix died around that time in nineteen ninety four, and.

Speaker 27 (01:22:14):
So Keanu Reeves and him were like bff, and so
he was going through a really tough time and so
he actually kind of pushed for him to do more
of like his own stunts, so especially where he jumps
from the.

Speaker 28 (01:22:27):
Move and Jaguar onto the car.

Speaker 27 (01:22:29):
Okay, yeah, so he actually did that himself, and he
fought to do that himself, So that was actually a
little bit something interesting, very terrifying, right, Like, I don't know,
my heart like jumps every single time.

Speaker 28 (01:22:40):
So those were my three.

Speaker 27 (01:22:41):
I went to to the Land twenty sixteen, training day
two thousand and one, and then I went speed again
because I love Kanu Reeves and I think I'm gonna
try moving forward if I can to always include Kanu
Reeves at least like once a month in my movies,
because you know, yeah, awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:22:57):
It was really edgy man. Yes, I mean that was
that had a lot of dark parts, and Denzel Washington
played a dark character. Let's not forget. I believe Doctor
Dre was in that.

Speaker 9 (01:23:10):
And so was Snooper Doop Dog.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
Yes, and it was a pretty pretty heavy duty cast.

Speaker 27 (01:23:16):
And Eva Mendez and she actually almost quit acting before
that movie, so that actually was a little bit something
interesting too. So I'm gonna go to the chef, Kevin Weyert,
you're at.

Speaker 9 (01:23:25):
All right, So yeah, Speed's gonna be one of them.

Speaker 7 (01:23:27):
And I think you just covered it all pretty much
and just such a thriller, and it's something I dream
about when I'm ever, I'm riding the bus anywhere. So anyway,
so Speed's one of them. The second one, my number
two is remember that movie Collateral had Jamie Fox and
Tom Cruise in it, where Jamie Fox was a cab driver,
Tom Cruise was a hit man and Jamie Fox ununly

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has to drive around and helped Tom Cruise commit all
of these murders and made me think of a line
today riding the subway to the Dodger's parade of how
you can go six hours on the match before anyone
will notice the corpse maybe most days.

Speaker 9 (01:24:03):
But not today.

Speaker 7 (01:24:04):
And then my number one LA movie, and this is
one I grew up on and continues to be a staple.

Speaker 9 (01:24:11):
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Oh my god, so good? I mean,
I think.

Speaker 7 (01:24:17):
Jessica Rabbit was a childhood crush of mine. But besides
that part, I think it was just a fantastic movie.
I love the plot of the whole tune town and
the framing of Roger Rabbit when he was showing pictures
of his wife potentially cheating on him, and then the
person game murdered, and then it was It was just
such a great movie and a little bit more, a

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more adult than what you normally would see from Disney.
So something I've enjoyed though a lot growing up, and
one I try to watch, you know, once every year
or two still. So those are my three Speed Collateral
and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Speaker 2 (01:24:54):
Collateral another wacky movie because I had a hard time
buying Jamie Fox's as a cab driver. And then Cruise
gets in and he says, I'm just this real estate guy.
Take me around town and then all of a sudden,
the corpse falls into the car and he asked, Tom
Cruise has to admit to Jamie Fox he's a hit man,
and then the movie was on. I didn't. I had

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to break up the party. I wanted to like that
movie more. It was just it was weird. Man, But
it was weird, but it's a really good.

Speaker 9 (01:25:23):
It was very thrilling though it was. Yeah, even though
it was weird, But yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:25:28):
I agree.

Speaker 27 (01:25:29):
I don't think I could buy Tom Cruise with the
white hair, like I like, I'm looking at the pictures
Tom Cruise.

Speaker 28 (01:25:34):
Yeah, it it just doesn't look right to me.

Speaker 16 (01:25:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 29 (01:25:38):
Okay, we'll go mark so quick comment. I couldn't see.
I just felt like Tom Cruise walked through Collateral. He
didn't do any acting. He just walked through with a
crazy costume and a weird acting portrayal. It was just
weird to see him in that light. So blah blah blah.
So my Breeze threes. I always try to find movies

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that maybe Breeze never heard of. Possibly, So number one
is La Confidential, Russell Crowe, Kim Basing, jer Kevin Spacey.

Speaker 15 (01:26:10):
It's like a.

Speaker 29 (01:26:10):
Crime noir from like the thirties forties movie. And then
the next one is a Steve Martin movie, La Story.
He kind of falls in love based on reading freeway
signs throughout Los Angeles, and like I said, La Confidential
was also about Los Angeles crime noir movie. And then
the third one is The Player, Tim Robbins, Bruce Willis

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and Burt Reynolds. Tim Robbins plays a movie producer and
it's what he has to do to make movies and
have to talk to people how to make a movie,
how to their ideas for the movie, but certain things
go on, and I just thought it was a really
good movie. So La Confidential, LA story and the Player LA's.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
Story was interesting because I think Steve Martin was making
fun of Los Angeles and the people who live there.

Speaker 29 (01:27:04):
By the way, Yeah, the scene of people just walking
up to the tell teller and getting robbed and the
next person just walks up getting robbed, it was great.

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
It was classic. It felt like a Saturday Night Live
skit that just took forever to me. And I agree
with your point about Tom Cruise though, but I might
have something to say about La Confidential anyway. Good stuff.

Speaker 28 (01:27:23):
All right, you're up, all right?

Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
Well, I well, I guess I'll start with La Confidential
because Mark had it, and I agree it's it's got
a very good cast, Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe. It's got
a lot of meat on the bone in this story.
And it's again, it takes place in a Los Angeles.
It's a it's a crime movie, you know, cops with

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bad reputations trying to clean up their reputations. And it
was it's one of those rare movies that got very
good critical reviews. And it made a lot of money
at the box office too, and that doesn't always happen.
It was nominated for none Academy Awards, so that's a
pretty good effort. So I'll start with that. The second one,

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I was going to start with this, but this was
fairly recent five years ago. Once Upon a Time in
Hollywood is one of Quentin Tarantino's most classic efforts. And
you know, I mean, you start out with a pretty
big cast Leo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt right on down the road.
But here's what's interesting. He takes everybody has heard of

(01:28:30):
the Charles man has heard of Charles Manson and the
Tate Lobac and murders. It took place in Los Angeles. Well,
the movie goes all around La. The soundtrack, the commercials
on the radio, they completely recreated nineteen seventies Los Angeles.
I can't believe how well Quentin Tarantino did his homework

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on that. It was impeccable. But the ending scene, instead
of Manson and his goofy followers and the flower Child
and the devil worshippers, you know, descending upon this house
and killing everybody, they turned the tables on them. So
that's a spoiler alert. If anybody hasn't seen the movie,
sorry if I spoil it for you, But even if
I did, it's so classic the way he tells the

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story and so goofy. It's I mean, it's just this
side of pulp fiction when it comes to its whimsy.
But it takes place in Los Angeles. The third one,
which is just an all time classic. Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway,
John Houston is Chinatown. If you like detective movies, detective
movies with real style that show a lot of old

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time Hollywood. If anybody's ever been on the Tour of
the Stars, homes and Beverly Hills. It's worth it. Chinatown
not only has great acting and a great plot and
great storylines and great characters. It shows La when La
was probably perhaps and it's incredible heyday in the thirties,
forties and fifties when people would come out West and

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couldn't believe this paradise. So Once upon a Time in
Hollywood La Confidential in Chinatown.

Speaker 28 (01:30:02):
Roman Polanski was the director of that. Right of.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
Once upon a Time in Hollywood in Chinatown. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, yes,
nineteen seventy four.

Speaker 9 (01:30:14):
Houston did that.

Speaker 29 (01:30:14):
I thought John Houston because Angelica Houston was in Oh,
I'm sorry, I gotta I'm thinking of China. John never mind.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
Yeah, John Houston actually played a key part. He was
he was kind of a bad guy. Was directed by
Roman Polanski. He did a lot of good movies for
he Bolted New Europe. This movie came out in nineteen
seventy four. But I you know, if you can find
it on Netflix or Paramount Plus or whatever Prime, you

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got to watch it. It's an intelligent person's thinking movie.
It's two hours and ten minutes and everything about it
is just pure Hollywood, pure Los Angeles, pure style and
just a lot of rich texture. They don't just don't
make them like this anymore.

Speaker 27 (01:31:00):
No, I'm definitely going to check it out because actually
I've never seen that movie, so I mean Jack nick Detective.

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
Movie, Detective movie, And of course Jack Nicholson's character was
Jake Gidte's right, And then that led to I believe
a couple of uh, Mark, you probably remember this is
a couple of sequels. The two Jakes I think was
the next thing.

Speaker 9 (01:31:17):
I think that was the other one.

Speaker 29 (01:31:18):
You had two Jakes. Yeah, but Jay Jhnaway was in
it too.

Speaker 9 (01:31:20):
She's also late and you know I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
I did not see that. You don't. You know, there's
a reason Steven Spielberg never made E T Two. People
wanted him to. He was smart not to do it. Nothing.
I'll compare with Chinatown. It it moves so fast. I mean,
it's almost like cramming for a final in college. It's like,
Holy Kyle, this is so intense that you really got

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to pay you really got to pay attention. Nice.

Speaker 27 (01:31:45):
I'm definitely going to check out Eli's story from Mark
and then Chinatown from our honorable please round table.

Speaker 2 (01:31:51):
Let's let's talk about everybody else's uh so.

Speaker 29 (01:31:54):
My honorable mentions are Minace to Society, Jada Pinkett Is
in that and Singing in the Rain and a movie
called Shampoo with Warren Baty, Goldie Han, Punch Drunk.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
Absolute classic, Shampoo made the song from the Beach Boys,
wouldn't it be nice? Famous? Go ahead?

Speaker 29 (01:32:14):
And then Punch Drunk Glove was my other one. Could
you just mentioned Chinas and I had them?

Speaker 2 (01:32:18):
That was Adam Sandler.

Speaker 9 (01:32:20):
Yes, Wow, that was a whacked out movie. It was crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
Anybody else I was.

Speaker 27 (01:32:27):
Thinking Eternal Mind of the Spotless Mind with Jim Carrey.

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
Was that an La? Was that filmed in La? I
don't know.

Speaker 27 (01:32:34):
I was just thinking about that right now. I'm like, oh,
that just kind of reminded me of Punch Drunk Clove.
We're talking about wacky movie.

Speaker 2 (01:32:39):
That's funny is LA because how many movies say they're
made in New York but they're made in Toronto. Or
like when Matt Damon and Ben Affleck pitched Goodwill Hunting.
They said, okay, well green lighted, we're gonna film it
in Toronto and they said no, not, no, hell no,
and they stuck to their guns. I mean, even as suits,
which is supposed to be an alley was filming in Toronto,

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but The Beauty was a real LA movie. You can't
fake l A, I do not think, because of the size,
the topography, the various you know cities within that comprise
Los Angeles. You know, if it's in Los Angeles, you
know you're not being bs anyway. That'll do it for me.

Speaker 9 (01:33:15):
I got one more.

Speaker 7 (01:33:16):
I'm surprised the ones mentioned it is Greece, oh, because
they race in the La River. Hollywood High School was
used as Ryde l High School. I mean, does it
technically take place in La in the movie. I don't
remember if it was actually mentioned or not, but it's
it's La is where everything is, you know, filmed there,
even if it's supposedly a fictional place.

Speaker 29 (01:33:37):
But maybe whatever town they were thinking of the La
buildings were used.

Speaker 9 (01:33:42):
I'm not sure how that worked out though, So.

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
That's why I think that's a good point. I never
really thought of it in those in those terms.

Speaker 27 (01:33:50):
I was kind of filmed in like Venice High School,
this Leo, Korea State Beach, so a lot of the
themes that a lot of the scenes were filmed in La.
But I don't think they really talked. It was just
like California kind of like you know, kind of like
a basic part of it. I think for me, Yeah,
that'll work awesome. Well, thanks guys, that was fun, all right,

(01:34:10):
good job everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
Obviously, you know I've talked movies on my shows ever
since I've been in radio, and I know that, you know,
I think movies and pop culture and sports have always intersected.
I just feel that way. So a good, good effort
by everybody on the Roundtable, and everybody's a movie buff
and on the show, and I think that that really

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helps a lot. By the way, I want to remind
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(01:34:57):
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I want to go over some of the must watch
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All right back in the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports
Radio coming to you live from the Tarat dot com
studios here in Las Vegas. We are just hours away
from another full college football slate. As we are now
into November, the plot starts to sicken Tuesday. By the way,

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I believe it's ESPN, they will be revealing the rankings,
so you'll now get to watch not just the first
two or the first four, but the top twelve based
on how things were if the season were to end today, well,
maybe not today, maybe Sunday, because number four Ohio State
visits number three Penn State. And I don't like to

(01:36:16):
use the word must win when you still have five
six games left on the schedule, but should Ohio State
get that second loss, you start to look for a
path to the playoff and it looks difficult. They would
need a lot of help, and it's likely they would
not be in the Big Ten championship game because Penn State.
That would mean Penn State remains undefeated. Indiana is still undefeated.

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I do not expect Michigan State to upset the Apple
Cart tomorrow, so this is interesting. Now things are trending
well for Penn State's Drew Aller. It looks like he's
gonna play. He left the first half of the game
over Wisconsin last week with a knee injury. James Franklin,
the head coach, gave a positive update he's playing. If
Aler couldn't go, Bull Prabula would start for Penn State.

(01:37:02):
He looked pretty good last week. But you want your
bell cow Ali. You know, listen, no one's ever going
to confuse Penn State with having a good offense or
a prolific offense, or a powerhouse offense if you get
my drift or a high octane offense. But Drew Aller
is actually averaging fourteen yards of completion this year because
he got this stud beast Tyler Warren, who's a runaway

(01:37:24):
coke machine. He's the best tight end in college football.
He's got forty seven catches from with six hundred yards
four touchdowns. He can run the ball too, He's run
for touchdowns. Ohio State is going to have to put
Warren and advice. Ohio State can do that, though. Now
the Ohio State office was in a funk last week.
In the second half, they got you know, buy Nebraska

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had a seventy five yard touchdown drive in the fourth quarter,
but Nebraska took a seventeen to fourteen lead in Ohio
State was a twenty point favorite that day. So look
the Buckeyes. They have a tendency to somewhat play with
their food, but a lot of times in November rolls around,
they get it in gear. I do expect him to
get it in gear against Tennessee. They were a three
point favorite. Ohio State was a three point favorite at

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Oregon three weeks ago. And if you're telling me Oregon
and Tennessee or even they're not now. Ohio State lost
to Oregon and they have not looked good since. But
I do think Ohio State is better than three points
over Penn State. I will be shocked if James Franklin,
who's like two and seventeen against top ten teams. He
doesn't be top five teams. He never beats Ohio State.

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Ohio State the thing to watch, though. Their left tackle
is out and their backup left tackle is out, and
as a result of that, they have a little bit
of difficulty. They have some difficulty protecting their quarterback. That
game here kicks off in seven hours, seven and a
half hours non am Pacific New Eastern. I expect Ohio

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State to win a low scoring game. Another game we're
watching tomorrow. I think my Michigan friends are just completely unrealistic.
Oregon laying fourteen and a half aff at Michigan Forregan
brings their a game, and there's no reason to think
they won't accept. They have this Tennessee sometimes to get
into Oregon and stink one up. But that was like
back when the Pac twelve existed, and you know they

(01:39:12):
go to like Arizona State on a Saturday night midnight
game or some stupid thing and blow it. But I
don't know how Michigan stops get Dylan Gabriel in that
passing attack, especially when they're missing their best player, Will
Johnson he's got a lower leg injury. I don't think
he's gonna play Saturday. He's the best defensive back in
college football. He's a you know, probably a top eight

(01:39:32):
draft choice. And we'll see how this dual quarterback of
Davis Warren and alex Or g Fair. Michigan still has
trouble throwing the ball no matter who is under center.
That offense just I mean, they couldn't score them. You know,
Michigan's offense is just not good. Okay. They look like

(01:39:52):
a drun crossing a nicety street trying to try to
prosecute it an offense. And I don't know what changes.
Oregon's got athletes all over the place. Louisville Clemson will
be one to watch. Pitt smu. Of course, Duke at
Miami is this a Manny Diaz revenge game. He's the
current Duke coach and the former Miami coach. He'll be
on the visiting sidelines down in Miami for the first

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time since losing the job to current coach Mario Christobal.
Of course, Miami's a twenty one point favorite, and I
don't see how Duke's office keeps up with cam Warden company.
Look Florida and Georgia of the world's largest cocktail party.
If Georgia shows up, they'll name their score. Then finally,
Texas A and M who's done a hell of a
job under Mike Elcho. After losing that first game to

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Notre Dame, they take their number ten ranking to South Carolina.
As we get closer and closer to watching what is
going to be, I think the funnest playoff that college
football has ever had. Coming up, we've got Chris Perfet's
World of Soccer. But first we go back to our guy,
Kevin Wire, the chef with the latest Yeah Bernie.

Speaker 7 (01:40:52):
A full night of NBA action on Friday night, and
it was a good matchup in Minneapolis as the two
Wolves and Nuggets, Anthony Edwards really taking over the game
down the stretch, would finish with twenty nine points as
Minnesota wins at one nineteen to won sixteen. Nicoli Yolkic
for his part, a rebound shy of a triple double,
twenty six points night, rebound, thirteen assists, but Jamal Murray

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had to leave the game in the third quarter and
he is now in a concussion protocol. Elsewhere in the Association,
Thunder over the Trailblazers one thirty seven, won a fourteen
Shay Gildes Alexander with thirteen points. Pelicans beat the Pacers,
won twenty five, one point eighteen, Lakers over the Raptors
won thirty one one twenty five, and the Nets get

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by the Bulls one twenty two, one twelve. King's get
a win on the road at the Hawks one twenty three,
one point fifteen, Knicks over the Pistons one twenty eight
ninety eight, Cavaliers top the Magic won twenty one oh nine,
and the Celtics beat the Hornets one twenty four two
one oh nine. In a college football number fifteen, Boise
State rolls to a fifty six twenty four victory against

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San Diego State to the Broncos, now seven and one
on the season, four and now in the Mountain West
and really asserting themselves as the top contender for the
Group of fives spot in the College Football Playoff. Yukon
is Bowl eligible, the Husky's moving to six to three
after they get by Georgia State thirty four to twenty seven.
South Florida beats Florida Atlantic forty four to twenty one.

Speaker 2 (01:42:19):
Thank you Bernie, Okay, thanks chef. You ready to go
Saturday night for five hours?

Speaker 9 (01:42:23):
But oh yeah, I'm here for it.

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
Final Well, my annual turn back the Clock Daylight Savings
five hours show. We'll tease it at the end of
hour marathon.

Speaker 9 (01:42:32):
I'm ready for it.

Speaker 2 (01:42:33):
I think I've done it like three years in a
e arrow, so I am ready. Who's not ready is
maybe a new coach to take over Man United. Yep,
Chris has got some news. A major coach for an
impressive team has been fired. We take you to Chris
Perfet's World of Soccer.

Speaker 30 (01:42:50):
The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, international drum.

Speaker 1 (01:43:06):
It's all here in this report from the World of Soccer.

Speaker 8 (01:43:10):
There's a lot going on in the MLS Cup playoffs. Bernie,
the Orlando City SC has been forced to a Game
three by Charlotte after a penalty shootout win on Friday.
Columbus Crew taking on New York Red Bulls in New
York on Sunday, and Columbus, who was considered one of

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the top to bottom or complete squads, is facing a
one game deficit in a best of three series. Meanwhile, LAFC,
also playing on Sunday, looking to close things up against
the Vancouver white Caps. We'll get back to MLS in
a second, because it could be another star could be
coming to enter Miami at some point. Well, they would
like to accept the problem is the of two words

(01:43:53):
that are really a bugaboo to MLS in this regard.
But let's head back across to the United Kingdom for second,
where a change in the guard finally happened with the
Red Devils and Manchester United, after two years, have parted
ways with the manager Eric ten Hogg, hired from IAX
back in twenty twenty two an experiment to try to

(01:44:17):
bring Manchester United back. It has not worked and Manchester
United parted ways with him after a tow to one
defeat at the hands of west Ham United the past weekend. Now,
Eric ten Hog has been very classy about it. He
put out several statements thaning to man You fans for
their support. It's been about a week since we've really

(01:44:39):
heard from him. It says that his dream has come
to an end. It is something of a mixed bag
for Eric ted Hogg. Yes, United did win a Caravell
Cup in an FA Cup, but you know, when you're
man United, you expect Premier League titles, you expect to
be playing in the Champions League at the top of UEFA,
and they just have not been there. I think the problems, however,

(01:45:03):
facing Manchester United go a lot deeper than Eric ten Hogg.
It goes a lot deeper than whoever the manager is.
And the expectations upon whoever is the next manager of
Manchester United. We already know who that is, we'll get
to him in a second. Is it's daunting. There are
so many expectations upon a club that has spent so

(01:45:25):
far in the wilderness that it's a real question is
if they are going to come back at all. Now
this weekend marks for most clubs in the Premier League.
They're tenth match played, and we usually know around about
the ten to fifteen game mark what a club is
and what they will be, and usually a lot of

(01:45:45):
times their standing does not change, and in this case
it's really dire from Manchester United at just eleven points.
They sit down at fourteenth out of twenty, so they're
outside the relegations. Could easily fall down if they continue
to drop points, but barring some unbelievable run, they are

(01:46:07):
not going to be playing in Europe at all spots one, two, three,
four and five in the Premier League goes to European
play in UEFA next season. Manchester United certainly won't be
among them, and they face a lot of problems when it.

Speaker 1 (01:46:21):
Comes to their roster.

Speaker 8 (01:46:22):
But this is also for the new ownership, or at
least the new ownership that's actually in control of the
day to day operations for Manchester United. This is their
way to make a stamp on things and hope that
they can figure out where things go from here. There's
a lot to figure out with Manchester United, with their
roster and everything else, and the question is will the

(01:46:43):
new manager, already named Ruben Amorin, will he be really
up to the task. Amarin is age thirty nine. He
is formerly the manager of Sporting Lisbon. He'll be doing
a will work a notice period with the Portuguese club
before starting with United on November eleventh, And the big

(01:47:03):
question across the British sphere is ultimately is this finally
the man to take over and finally steer Manchester United
out of what is the post alex Ferguson era. And
at this point the post alex Ferguson era is almost
reaching about the point where it is half as long
as Alex Ferguson was the manager of Manchester United. It's

(01:47:26):
a long time for MANU to be in the in
the wilds out here. They've gone through David Moyes. They've
gone through Lewis van Gaal, They've gone for Ralph Ragnik,
They've gone through Jose Mourinho, the great one out there,
They've gone through Eric ten Hogg, and I have questions
if this is the right one. A lot of papers

(01:47:48):
seem to really be praising the higher now by CV
alone Amorin looks like a very impressive higher. He's got
domestic trophies in Portugal, He's Sporting Lisbon has had a
very strong Champions League presence and it is still a
club that is on the come even four years into
his reign.

Speaker 9 (01:48:08):
That said, I don't know if that's enough for Manchester United.

Speaker 8 (01:48:11):
We've gone through all of these things and we can
keep talking about how much more it is at United
for all of this, and it seems like it's going
to take a thunderous figure of immense proportions to take
over for the Alex Ferguson era.

Speaker 9 (01:48:26):
And unless you're.

Speaker 8 (01:48:26):
Going out there and getting someone like I don't know,
Carlos and Salati from Real Madrid, which will never happen.

Speaker 9 (01:48:33):
Then I'm genuinely.

Speaker 1 (01:48:35):
Curious who is going to be the man for now.

Speaker 8 (01:48:37):
We wish Emar and well, we'll see if he can
bring Manchester United back to glory, but something tells me, regardless,
it will not be this season. Manchester United's greatest hope
right now is pretty much the unthinkable. Try to make
sure that comespring, that they are out of the relegation zone.
I don't know when the last time I could ever

(01:48:58):
say that about the Red Devil. Now, one more story
before we get out of here. You know how we
talked about Lionel Messi was going to be kind of
the wave that would bring in new players to MLS.
But we finally got a nice, juicy rumor that Naymar
might be being courted to join many of his former
Barcelona teammates in Miami Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Jordi Alba,

(01:49:21):
Sergio Busquetz, even though he doesn't really come off his
Saudi contract with Alhlal until the summer of twenty twenty five.
But still given that the MLS is a summer league
might still be possible to see next year him joining it. Unfortunately,
the Miami head coach Gerardo Martino shot down a lot
of those rumors and said that it was basically impossible

(01:49:43):
to negotiate given current MLS in broster and salary cap restrictions.

Speaker 9 (01:49:47):
Yes, we have to.

Speaker 8 (01:49:48):
Remind everyone once again, unlike the rest of the world,
MLS plays with a salary cap with some very odd
exemption rules for about three players on there. But either way,
it's not conducive to really making great ross, and it's
certainly not conducive to something like this where you'd love
to see a player like Naymar who I mean, Granted,
he's not the Namar we used to know.

Speaker 2 (01:50:07):
He's a Namar who did not make the.

Speaker 8 (01:50:09):
Roster, was left off the roster for Brazil for the
World Cup qualifiers, but he's Naymar. He helps would raise
the profile of your league even further. And once again,
as Martino points out, there's a lot of trouble to getting.

Speaker 9 (01:50:23):
Him on that roster.

Speaker 4 (01:50:24):
Now.

Speaker 8 (01:50:24):
Could he go to another MLS roster, sure, but that
would also require those MLS owners to then start ponying
up and deal the salary cap and try to figure
out a way much like Miami did, to bring some
fantastic talent and big names over here. But it's not
gonna happen. That's it for now, Bernie. We'll see you
next time on the World of Soccer.

Speaker 2 (01:50:44):
Alrighty, Well, we do cover it all here on The
Bernie Fravas Show, and that's kind of madejor news. I
remember when Chris announced that Eric Tanhawk had actually been
hired by man you used a couple of years ago. Man,
they don't mess around there. I wonder how long they
would have stuck with Aaron Boone just saying, well, if
Freddie Freeman's legend couldn't grow anymore, what do we tell

(01:51:06):
you what happened before the series even started. Yeah, you're
not gonna believe this. Forget the ankle, this is much worse.
This only makes Freddy Freeman look like an even bigger hero.
I'm Bernie Fraddle. We are company live from the Las
Vegas Fox Sports Radio Tireck dot Com studios. So keep
it locked right here. You're listening to the Bernie Frattle
Show on Fox Sports Radio. All righty, wrapping it up

(01:51:28):
on The Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio comingy live
from the taraac dot com studios here in Las Vegas.
Before I go any further, I want to thank my
broadcast team back in Los Angeles, turning old dials, keeping
us glued together, working behind the scenes to keep the
show on the air. Mark Ramsey, our technical producer, Brie

(01:51:51):
Are executive producer, and of course Kevin Wire at the
chef on all the updates. Good teamwork, good conversations on
the movies and all around. Appreciate everybody's effort and all
that good stuff. Just a note, this is daylight savings weekend,
So when you go to bed Saturday night, you will

(01:52:15):
wake up Sunday morning, and if you well, if you
don't get up at two am to turn your clock back,
or you don't turn your clock back before you go
to bed, you're going to gain an hour sleep this week. Okay,
fall back, spring forward, so no, we head into fall.
And so therefore Sunday morning, whatever time you normally wake up,
it's gonna feel like an hour earlier because it's technically
going to be an hour earlier because of daylight savings

(01:52:38):
time coming to an end, which allows me the opportunity
to do my annual five hour extravaganza. We'll sign on
Saturday night later tonight eleven pm Pacific. We'll go through
to three am, but at two am we'll turn it back.
We'll get an extra hour, so it'll be a five
hours driving answer show. We got all kinds of stuff

(01:52:58):
planned as usual. I got some great guests, lots of conversations.
As we head end a week at nine of the NFL,
we break down a week ten in college football, among
many other stories, storylines.

Speaker 9 (01:53:11):
And high jinks.

Speaker 2 (01:53:15):
You know you heard me say at the top of
the show how impressed I was with the Dodgers stealing
the improbable impossible line Vince Gully in nineteen eighty eight
when Gibby hit the home run. Of course, Freddie hits
the home run, and orl Hearscheizer comes out of the
bullpen against the New York Mets in nineteen eighty eight.
Is a starter to get a batter out, Walker Buehler,

(01:53:39):
He's a starter. Two days rest the eerily similar circumstances
and you start to reflect and a couple things. First
of all, you realize, I think you could make a
case the Dodgers are not only the best organization in baseball.

(01:54:00):
They might be the best organization in all sports. They
if you think about their commitment to winning and the
reason they packed the stadium, and they spend money, They
scout well, they develop well, they make acquisitions. They're always
trying to win. They've been knocking on the door. And
you look at some of the journey. Just look at
this team. Okay, Freddy Freeman. You acquire Freddy Freeman. He's

(01:54:23):
a two time world champion. Now he's a World Series MVP.
Just three years ago, he and the Atlanta Braves could
not agree on a deal after the Braves won their
first or he won the first title with the Braves.
You bring in Mookie Betts. He now has two championships
since the Red Sox to Saturday, he wasn't in their plans.
Those two accounted for four of the dodgers seven runs

(01:54:45):
in the game clinching in the game clinching win against
the Yankees in Game five. And how about Chilio Tani,
the world's most talented baseball player. He was completely hurt
throughout the whole series. You could clearly see he was
stealing that base, jacked up his shoulder. He's hitting mechanics

(01:55:05):
were diminished his bat speed. You could tell he was
in pain. But you know what, not a bad first year.
Fifty to fifty. He'll be the presumptive MVP, I believe.
And he ends with the ring, and I think you'll you'll,
you'll take that right. And the Dodgers are now champs
of the last two of the last five World Series.

(01:55:26):
So you, I think, are entering a golden era of
Dodger baseball. And I don't do not think that's that's hyperbole.
Again if you take let's go back to March and
you tell me you're not gonna have any Clayton Kershaw,
no Tyler Glass now, no Tony Gonsolin, no Dustin May
Gavin Stone. After the season he was having no Gavin Stone.

(01:55:49):
And you already knew o Tani was not gonna be
able to pitch this year. And you say, yeah, no problem,
we got plenty of pitching. We should get right through it, right, Yeah, right,
Well they did it, shut up Padres for sixteen innings
and came up with big pitch after a big pitch,
out after out against a prolific Yankees lineup, after losing
all those pitchers. And if you thought Freddy Freeman was

(01:56:12):
already a hero. We didn't find this out. Now everybody knows.
A day before the playoffs began, Freddy Freeman was unable
to pick himself up off the floor after taking swings
in the batting cage. Turned out he had broken something
called the constal cartilage in his sixth rib. Is if
I know what that is? Sure an injury that they
say can actually sideline a player for months. Months. They

(01:56:38):
say that Freddy was devastated, just walking, hurt, breathing, stung.
If anybody's having a broken rib, it's true you can't
even breathe, But can you imagine swinging a bat against
major leagues, against major league pitching, So all of a sudden,
now you're thinking about the ankle. Now you got his
ribs and his fred his father, fred he was very worried.

(01:56:59):
He said, just you know, don't it's not worth it, Freddy,
you know what, You're just not gonna be able to go.
There's gonna be other postseasons, are gonna be other opportunities.
And his father said, stop, it's not worth it. I
know you love baseball, but it's not worth it. And
Freddy said, Dad, you're crazy. I'm never going to stop,
and then he gave his dad the legendary quote it

(01:57:20):
only hurts when I miss quote, So I'm just going
to have to stop missing. And that's exactly what he
did from the Grand Salami in Game one, which set
the tone just like Kirk Gibson did back in nineteen
eighty eight when he was also hurt could barely walk
the home plate. So there you have it. Hats off
to the Dodgers. It's gonna do it for the Bernie

(01:57:41):
Fraddle Show again. I will be back on these airwaves
tonight eleven pm Pacific time for five hours. Don't forget
to turn your clocks back tomorrow night. Plenty of highjinks
on The Bernie Frattle Show Saturday night. Keep it locked
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