Aaron Torres & Jason Martin React to a WILD Game 7 of the World Series!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Welcome in everybody, Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday, Eric Torris,
Jason Martin. We are broadcasting live from the Fox Sports
Radio studios. Yes, we are live here at eleven oh
one Eastern time. De Sagar just told you the story
of the night Game seven World Series Bottom of the eighth,

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a one run game, the Blue Jays clinging to a
four to three lead, Blue Jays six outs away from
a World Series championship there first since ninety three, but
obviously trying to try to expand their lead, a one
run lead here in the bottom of the eighth. We
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by the way, we'll be joining us when this game
goes final. But jmart we are in the bottom of
the eighth. Blake Snell has come on in relief as
the Blue Jays are trying to expand their one run lead.
Run around second no outs. Andre Samenez at the plate,
Jmart for one, how are you, buddy? But then two
any scorching hot takes here as we are now in

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the bottom of the eighth in Toronto of Game seven
of World Series.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
No. I mean, I've I've been. I've been able to
tear my eyes away from this. I've had an iPad,
an iPhone, a computer, monitor, and a television, all on
separate things share course of the evening, the big screen
on the baseball I've had Tennessee, Oklahoma on I've had
WWB Saturday Night's main event, which was also live tonight.
There's been so much going on, but I have seen

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every pitch of this game and what a World Series
it has been. It's not over. There could still be
some more drama to be had, but we are down
to three more outs. Defensively for the Blue Jays and
man Ernie Clement, you just can't get the guy out.
Thirty hits in the postseason, an all time record, and

(02:25):
this Blue Jays team and this Blue Jays, just the
crowd there in the building and the atmosphere. It's just
been incredible. I'm sure there's gonna be some questions that
are raised, maybe Otani on three days rest and all
that other kind of stuff. I've just greatly enjoyed all
of these games from both of these teams, and it's

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just one of those I don't know where it goes
all time, but certainly of my lifetime. This is one
of probably the five or six World Series that I
will remember the most, just because you've had an eighteen
inning game. You've just had so much that has gone on.
You had the crazy ending in Game six, and who

(03:06):
knows what's still to come here in Game seven. But
this is all you want as a sports fan. It
is obviously only one team's gonna be able to win,
so there's gonna be one fan base that's absolutely crushed
at the end of this thing. But this is all
you want, especially when you don't have a dog in
the fight like me. I can just sit back and
enjoy this, although I have found myself pulling for Toronto
and hoping they get this done.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, Toronto up four to three. George Springer up Andre Semenez.
By the way, we know how last night Game six ended.
Jimenez was up with no outs, hit a ball right
on the button to Max Muncie at third. It was
almost another double up situation through no fault of Jimenez,
who is crushing the ball right now, but it was
a line out. George Springer has struck out, so two outs.

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Here in the bottom of the eighth, Blake sneil On
in relief for those of us, For those of you
just joining us, four to three is the score, Toronto
up four to three, bottom of the eight, two outs. Obviously,
as j mart said, three outs away from a World Series.
The big swing bo bashett a three run home run
in the bottom of the third.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Any see him admire it? I mean, I it was inredible.
I mean like he hid and he knew it was gone,
but it was. It was incredible to watch him just
stand there, like if you didn't know where the ball
was gonna land, you did watching him like didn't. It
wasn't one where you had to listen to the crowd
and maybe they're wrong. No, he knew, like he just
looked at that thing. It wasn't even arrogance. It was
just yeah, that's gone. I'm gonna wait until it hits

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and all right now we're gonna all clear the bases.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Now, well, bases, we're clear than that one. That one
also is what knocked Otani out of the game as
a pitcher, just two and a third for Otani.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
I don't you have.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Any issues with him being in the game?

Speaker 4 (04:46):
No, no, no no.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I feel like I feel like if anybody could have
pulled it off, it probably would have been Shotani.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, I think once you brought in glass Now last night,
you know, damned if you do, damned if you don't.
If you start obviously can't start Yamamoto. You know you're
not gonna start Blake Snell, who has lost two games
in this series on whatever. It would be two days rest,
three days rest. And if you start glass Now and
he doesn't pitch, well, then people are gonna say, why
didn't you start Otani when you're pitching glass Now after

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he pitched to close the game. I thought it was
kind of interesting, actually, you know, watching the post game
with the Fox guys, you know, Jeter, Poppy and a Rod,
they were actually speaking last night as if they believed
that glass Now could get the start today it felt
like a pretty much a no brainer to me. You know,
Dave Roberts understandably was pretty coy, but no, I have

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no problem with that. And if it doesn't work out,
you know, it's postseason baseball, you know, and once you
went to and by the way, had to win Game six.
So you can't blame Dave Roberts for bringing glass Now
out of the bullpen last night. I will say this,
and I think I've mentioned it to you, j Mark.
But you know, my wife, you know, because of what
we do, I don't get to just like watch a

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lot of games and sports with my wife as a fan.
Usually I'm in another room or whatever, but she's a
Dodgers girl, so we watch a lot of these games together.
And that was a lot of conversation. Is you know, yeah,
there's no tomorrow. You gotta do what you have to
do to win. You know, you bring in glass Now
last night, and I am not surprised at all that
I am not surprised at all that he did not

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start today.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Well, you know, I mean, Dave Roberts, a lot of
his decisions get second and third guest, Like that's just
kind of been the story for years and years. I
don't have a problem this either. As a matter of fact,
I just asked a question because I wonder if it
will be talked about. I don't think it should be.
I think it was the right decision. It's just and
I think that's the advantage. That's what happens when you
fall behind and you have to win two games. There

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is just like you said, you have to throw all
of the kind of protection out the window. You've got
to throw all of that sort of caution out and
go for broke, and sometimes that leads you a little
shorthanded the next night. And that's kind of what you
here for the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Well, speaking of the Dodgers, they do get out of
the bottom of the eighth unscathed. Uh So we head
to the ninth. Now, the top of the ninth, I'm
gonna set it up for you. Toronto up four to three.
They are up four to three right now going into
the bottom of the ninth. The Dodgers have Keike Hernandez
Miguel Rojas, and if those two guys get out with

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the season on the line, it will be the top
of the order with show. Hey Otani, we are through
eight in Toronto. Toronto with a four to three lead, Jamart,
while we have half a second to catch our breath
on college on on baseball. And by the way, as
soon as that game goes final one way or the other,
were full postgame mode for as long as we want to.

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You know, as long as people want to talk baseball,
we're happy to do it. John Paul Morosi will join
us as well. Once the game goes final really quickly.
You know, weird day in college football. I I you know,
I don't. I don't know that there's like the A
plus US signature storyline.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
Oklahoma is up at Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
You know that's kind of a pseudo de facto playoff
elimination game, both teams coming into this game at six
and two. Oklahoma up twenty six to seventeen. Remember last
week they had the blown lead against Ole Miss, and.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
So you know that's kind of interesting.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
I'll say this a pseudo de facto playoff game in Lincoln,
Nebraska as well tonight.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
So Oklahoma's former coach Lincoln.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Riley listen, I'll say this, I don't know that it's
the lead story and I don't know that we need
to pat Lincoln Riley on the back for being a
ten million dollar coach and being seven and two. But
if we're going to criticize him at every turn of
the way, they are now seven and two. They win
at Nebraska. Now it's worth noting in that game that
Dylan Rayola did go out with an injury. I correct myself.

(08:51):
They've already had two buys, so they're actually six and two,
and they have a tough road ahead. But six and
two they do have Oregon later in the year, so
it's not gonna be an easy path. But USC basically
in these de facto playoff games, and I know I'm rambling,
so I'll cut myself off here, but you know, I've
said it a few times.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
I was critical of the twelve team expansion. Did we
really need it?

Speaker 2 (09:12):
You know, you kind of know who are the two
or three teams by the end of the year. But
you look at a year like this, You look at
at night like tonight, Oklahoma up against Tennessee in a
game featuring two loss teams, the loser there will essentially
be eliminated, and Nebraska coming in at six and two,
USC at five and two, USC getting the win to
improve to six and two and staying in that playoff picture.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, I mean they've just quietly had a pretty good year.
I think that game, that game happened, and I don't
know how many people were even paying attention to it
because of everything else that was going on simultaneously, obviously, Yeah,
I don't know. I mean there were some interesting things.
I think, you know, the AC season mess again, yeah,
jorg Attach losing tonight to NC State, and of course

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earlier to day Miami losing the SMU. The Vanderbilt Texas
game certainly is something that it was weird because it
was Vanderbilt, so it still didn't seem impressive to a
lot of people. Like Greg McElroy actually said on the
broadcast that Texas is going to have to make fewer
mistakes when they play top competition. I was like, dude,

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that's the number nine team in the country. Sure that
they're playing, but it's like it's Vanderbilt, so even he
doesn't even like he can't even stop himself, right, So
that that to me was intriguing. And give them credit too.
They could have gotten beaten like forty one to ten
because they were down big and then they scored twenty
one late. They just they didn't quit, Like I think
there's I think there's something to be said for not

(10:41):
getting blown out on the road in that scenario and
making that thing a three point game in the end,
even if it really probably was not that close. But
I think you could you could certainly mention that. But again,
I you know, Georgia beat Florida, But how impressive was
that they keep winning so close? I still don't know
how good Ohio State is because Penn State's not good

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even though they throttled them. What is Penn State even
playing for at this point? The team that just continues
to blow everybody's doors off Aaron is Indiana. Sure, Indiana
went to Maryland and put up about three hundred points
on them on the road, just absolutely annihilated them and
continues to do that week after week after week. Whatever

(11:24):
you're paying, Netty, I don't care what the takes are.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Oh God, I think it's a it was a bad contract.
According to for us, it was. Yeah, no, it's freaking
uh all right, I'll tell you what. So college football, Yes,
I think the big story was probably the ACC Oklahoma
trying to hold on at Tennessee to keep their playoff
hopes alive.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Tell you what.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
There is one out in the bottom of the night.
So what we're gonna do. We're gonna come back. When
we come back, we may have a final in Toronto
for people who are just joining us Toronto for Dodgers three,
top of the ninth. One out will come back. React
to everything that's happened. This is Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2 (12:44):
Welcome back everybody, Fox Sports Radio. Ertursdays, Martin, we are
broadcasting live. Yeah, We're live eleven twenty Eastern from the
Fox Sports Radio studios. When we left you, we were
headed to the top of the ninth Toronto, Game seven
of the World Series, was up four to three, three

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outs away from a World Series eight nine to one
coming up in the order. You wonder what would happen
if Sho Hey Otani made it to the plate with
a chance to tie the game. Didn't happen because Miguel Rojas,
the number nine hitter, who also unofficially saved last night
with the incredible catch at second base, solo home run Miguel.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
Rojas top of the ninth.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Now, Toronto did get Otani out and Will Smith out
to set up a bottom of the ninth, but the
Dodgers tie the game at four a piece. Miguel Rojas,
the number nine hitter, with a solo home run sends
us to the bottom of the ninth. We are tied.
We're three outs away from extra innings. We are one

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potential swing away from Toronto having a walk off World
Series championship. Jammartin, I know you said you have no
vested interest, but yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Mean I'm pulling. I am pull it for Toronto.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
But you're not entertained that's yeah, I mean this is
gladiator stuff.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah. Uh So, by the way, I'm like forty five
seconds at least behind you. Like everything you say then
happens about forty seconds later here in Nashville on my screen.
So I'm gonna get it spoiled anyway. But like I
got Vlad Guerrero coming up, and like I'm thinking, well,
it could be a Joe Carter like moment.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
So as of right now, we have not gotten that
just yet.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
It is a fun You just stepped up to the
plate for me. Just that's to show you how far
maybe there's a difference between our feeds.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yes, so to reset it. Bottom of the ninth, we
are officially tied for four. Miguel Rojas, the number nine hitter.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
There's a no doubt shot too. Yes, I was just man,
that thing was gone right off the bats. So we
will see what happens here the Blue Jays. Vlad Guerrero
is at the plate.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
And J Martin.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Not quite, J mart You're in about forty seconds. You
are going to see a ball to the deepest part
of center field. Vlad Guerrero one out, bottom of the ninth.
I hate to keep doing this, and I don't know if.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
I saw the three to zero pitch come true. So
that's that's I don't know how far behind you I am, but.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Well, Vlad Guerrero has flied out one out in the
bottom of the ninth again. Blue Toronto was up four
to three going into the ninth inning. Miguel Rojas, a
solo home run ties it up. We know it's baseball
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(15:42):
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the way, interesting situation with the late college football game

(16:05):
Top twenty matchup. Tennessee did score and got pat to
cut the lead to twenty six to twenty four against Oklahoma.
Oklahoma has already driven the length of the field and
they have scored to put that game away. As they
are ahead, it'll be thirty three to twenty four for

(16:27):
the betters. That's also the over will hit there. But
it looks like Oklahoma is gonna win in Tennessee and
then back to Toronto. We have a single with one
out in the bottom of the ninth inning. If you're
just joining us, we know we always have a new audience.
The Toronto Blue Jays went into the ninth inning with

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a chance to win it with three Outsay Miguel Rojas
solo home run ended up tying it. And now we
are in the bottom of the ninth one on one out,
the game winning World Series winning run is at the
plate for the Toronto Blue Jays. Can you feel attention?

(17:10):
J mart Adison Barger is at the plate. By the way,
he has two hits tonight. He's betting four to eighty
in the series. And by the way, you know who's
up in the bullpen right now, J Martin about forty seconds,
you'll see Yama Moto.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, I'm not shocked. I mean, I think Dave Roberts
said before, and I'm pretty sure Schneider said as well,
that pretty much everybody is everybody is fair game. I mean,
you got you gotta leave it all out there. There's
there's no tomorrow after this unless this thing goes longer
than eighteen innings and we're still playing well.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yes, so that would be the core four pitching rotation.
Otani started, Glassenow came out in relief. Blake Snell is
on right now, and Yoshinobu Yama Moto, who was the
Game six winning pitcher. Yeah, probably in line to win
World Series MVP. Maybe, I mean, certainly if he came

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in and got another win, he would. But he has
been probably the best player, ok you know mostly I
would argue probably the most important player across the board
for the Dodgers all postseason. But yeah, Yoshinobu Yamamoto is
up in the bullpen. We have one out bottom of
the ninth. This is Fox Sports Radio again. The game
is tied four to four in Kneeland Stadium, Knoxville, Nieland

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Stadium is starting to empty out. Oklahoma is going to
go in and get the win. There, Jmart really quickly
as we kind of I don't even know. I don't
what am I supposed to do. There's no handbooking when
you go to broadcast school. There's no handbooks, Like.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
This is a double edged sword. Because it's awesome to
be able to react to this in real time, yeah, all,
it's also horrifying to have to react to it in
real time because you just want to be able to
sit and enjoy it, and you can't, Like, we have
to we have a job to do in the same
moment that the first reason that we do this, yes,
is because we love it, is because we love sports

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to the degree that we said, yeah, we want to
sit around and yap about it for as long as
somebody is willing to pay us to do it. But then,
as fans, you get caught up in the moment. But
you have to remember there's a whole lot of people
listening that can't watch it right now, and they're gonna,
you know, be hinging on our analysis. And I can't
believe we're lucky enough to have JP Morosi coming up

(19:18):
just just the absolute best to break down this incredible
world series whenever it does come to an end. But
I'll tell you, man, like baseball, in these big moments,
the tension from every pitch is just incredible, Like even
if it's not your team, it's just like I can't

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even imagine the way that it feels to be a player,
especially a pitcher. I think in a scenario like this,
coming into one of these games, especially at game seven,
in this situation, whoever comes in like it could be
over because of you. It's just incredible, just the mag

(20:00):
magnitude of what you get to see when you get
a Game seven in baseball.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, as I was saying a second ago to all
the all the broadcast professors out there that are listening
to us, save a day in the curriculum for broadcasting
Game seven of the World Series, bottom of the ninth inning,
because there is no blueprint here. We're just gonna stay
on baseball. Matter of fact, to Sager, you know what
you got the you got the headphones on.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Do we dare do the update?

Speaker 3 (20:25):
You can hop in man, we should just talk to Disager.
You know what the rule, you know what the professor
should do. The professor should just say, hey, here's what
you do in scenario like this.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
If Steve Disager is working with you, you throw it
to him.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
That's what well, yeah, you do, But this is just
a quick answer. You just be real. Yes, you act
like everybody would act in this scenario.

Speaker 7 (20:45):
I'll tryxactly right. Yeah, we are fans of this sport,
exactly right. What you just mentioned is postseason baseball is
just reliably sensational. It doesn't matter who's playing. This is
just obviously this is not the only game that's been
like this in this series, but year after year, postseason
baseball delivers.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
This is sensational.

Speaker 7 (21:07):
It is Game seven of the World Series on Fox
TV at Toronto, and yes, it could be over in
any moment. Dodgers and Blue Jays are tied four to
four because astoundingly, Miguel Rojas, who'd barely had any at
bats in the last month, in the top of the
ninth for La, hits the tying solo homer off the
Blue Jays closer Jeff Hoffman. Now after the fact on

(21:30):
the telecast, they mentioned how many home runs Hoffman gave
up this year, not recently giving up what one home
run since late August until tonight in the ninth with
Toronto two outs away from the type the.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Sega, I proposed a crazy take. If the Dodgers win
this game, I want to nominate McGill Rojas for Series
MVP because the catch to seal the win last night.
I mean that's not a get you know, you guys,
we all know baseball to the degree that we know
that that's not a gimme play. And so it's like
that catch plus what he did. By the way, I

(22:05):
will get you update then I'll get it back over
to you to Seger. We do have a walk here
in the bottom of the ninth, So the tying run
or the excuse me, the winning run is now in
scoring position two on one out Los Angeles dodge.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
So maybe the MVP could be the wall.

Speaker 7 (22:20):
Yeah, because if that doesn't stick ball lodged at the
bottom of the wall last night, things could have been
much much different. It could have been tied up by
the home team. We do have a pinch runner at
second after the Bobaschet one out single, and now after
a nine pitch at bat, Addison Barger gets a walk
and now a visit to the mound to Blake Snell
for manager Dave Roberts. Alejandro Kirk is due up standing

(22:46):
by first and second, one out in a four to
four game. Bottom of the ninth. I mentioned the closer,
Jeff Hoffman. He was in his second inning of work
when he gave.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Up the long ball to Rojas.

Speaker 7 (22:56):
He had allowed only one run in about the last
eighteen in work until that long bowl. In all the
World Series Winner take all game history, we have one
game winning homer in the ninth. Bill Mazeroski nineteen sixty Pirates.
This is the only game tying home run in the
history of World Series Game sevens and in fact, just

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entering the ninth inning with a chance to clinch the
World Series teams in history almost always close it out.
Texas Rangers had a noticeable loss at home against David
Freese and the Cardinals over a decade ago, but that's
one of the rare, rare exceptions where a team has
goes to the ninth with a chance to clinch and

(23:39):
does not get it done in that half inning. In fact,
one oh two and six is the record of teams
going to the ninth with a chance to clinch. Blake
snell I mentioned had been on in relief for la
He has been beaten by this Toronto team twice one.
Speaking at the Series in general, one huge difference between
these two is the bottom of the order keeps delivering

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time and again for the Blue Jays, and part of
the reason the Dodgers are hitting solo homer after solo
homer is the bottom of the order for them not delivering.
Andre Jimenez has been one of those bottom of the
order heroes for the Blue Jays, with twelve RBIs this postseason,
all while batting in the eighth or ninth slot. No
one else in baseball history has had twelve RBIs from

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one of the bottom two spots in the order in
a single postseason. But we do have a pitching change.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is coming in with one out bottom of
the ninth in Toronto runners at first and second. Arizona
Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray out again this weekend with a
spring foot. In college football, we have a couple of

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late games. They're still in the final minute at Tennessee,
Oklahoma's lead is thirty three twenty seven and the balls
are driving top twenty five matchup at Utah and the
Utzer had seventeen to seven on Cincinnati late in the second.
As for the Hawaii game, they're at San State early
second quarter, tied seven to seven on FS one. Arizona

(25:04):
dominated at Colorado fifty two seventeen. San Diego States still
undefeated in the Mountain West after beating Wyoming twenty four
to seven. Yukon beat UAB thirty eight nineteen Connecticut four
and oh.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
At home.

Speaker 7 (25:17):
Army kicked a field goal final play to win at
Air Force North Texas eight and one after beating Navy,
which had been seven and oh.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Back to you, Thank you very much, Steve de Sager,
Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday er Tors Jason Martin
broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Just about
final in Knoxville, Oklahoma, recovers an outside kick two knees
or one knee. Excuse me, they will win thirty three
to twenty seven. Baseball game four to four. Here in
the bottom of the ninth, we now have the bases

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loaded because Yoshinobu Yamamoto has come in. Alejandro Kirk has
been hit by a pitch, which means we now have
the bases loaded. One out, a force out at every
single base. Sorry to spoil it for you, j Mark,
but force out.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
I just saw the first pitch to Kirk. It's okay,
it's not I'm not gonna get this one unless it
happens during a commercial break. It's just not gonna all right,
I just saw him get hit by the pitch.

Speaker 8 (26:18):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
So the deep fly ball might be enough to win
the game.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, so to reset four to four bottom of the ninth.
The bases are now loaded with one out. It is
a tie game. There is a force at every base. Obviously,
any type of hit would win the game. Any type
of walk would win the game. Any type of hit
by pitcher, hit by pitch, excuse me, would win the game.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Four to four.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Bottom of the ninth for everybody just joining us. The
Blue Jays had a four to three lead heading into
the top of the ninth, three outs away. Miguel Rojas
last night, one of the heroes of many last night
in Game six with the game saving catch there at
the end solo home run to tie it up. Yoshinobu

(27:05):
Yama Moto has come in the Game two winner, the
Game six winner. He is in now in relief. The
Dodgers four star starting pitchers have all appeared in this game.
Show hey Otani started, Tyler Glass now came in in relief,
and also Snell as well, where.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
It appears as well.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
I just saw a crazy stat, yeah, sacrifice fly to
win the World Series. Never happened only happened one time
Wow nineteen twelve Red Sox, nineteen twelve Redstock So it's
only been one hundred and thirteen years. Not that that's
what's gonna happen, but it could happen. For the you
would see something that has not happened in like a
Hailey's Comet and a half.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
So the Dodgers have now interesting move. They have put
Andy Pahez in left field. I believe to say, or
does he I don't.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Mean to push down a cannon.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
I was gonna say. He must have a strong arm.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Again, pretty much anything wins it, including a deep fly ball.
And the way, if you're watching on TV, the Dodgers
have the center fielder in pretty shallow and the two
corner outfielders deep trying to play for a fly ball
again to reset four to four bottom of the ninth,

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the bases are loaded. Dalton var show up for the
Toronto Blue Jays. Any run across the plate will win
this game. I don't know what to do. I mean,
we we're not gonna go to break this Ton. So yeah,
so four to four bottom of the eighth. By the way,
we do have a final at Tennessee, Oklahoma beats Tennessee

(28:42):
thirty three to twenty seven in the Marquee College football
game of the evening. Hard hit foul ball down the
right field line. It is foul though, so again. Game
seven of the World Series. Talk about tension, man, there
is nothing like postseason baseball. As we have a tie
game bottom of the knife. A Miguel Rojas home run

(29:04):
in the top of the ninth tied it up. We
are now in the bottom of the nine.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
I don't know what to say. Yeah, guys, imagine, imagine
someone gets hit by a pitch here and that's how
it ends. Dude in the cards wild as we just
saw somebody get hit by a pitch to load the bases.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, I mean anything is in play here, which is
absolutely insane.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
And y'aal Momoto's arm can't be That's what I was
gonna say.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Hard hit ball, hard hit ball. We have a force
out at home. It was a hard hit ball to
the second baseman. My guy, the honest David Ortiz, say,
my dog, Miguel Rojas at the infield was in so
again to reset four to four, bottom of the ninth,
bases loaded, hard hit ball to Miguel rojas infield was in.

(29:55):
He throws it home. He gets the force Mcguel rojas
Man time and time again. He's coming up big, so
there is a force out. I don't know if his
foot was on the plate. I don't know if his
foot was on the plate.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
I just saw the play, so I'll have to watch
the replay. I don't Ernie's coming up next, though.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
I gotta see this.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
If it's not over, I guess we need I guess
I need to see a replay here.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
I don't have We don't have indisputable video evidence that
it isn't there's so much dirt. I don't know that there.
I don't know if his foot was on the plate.
If this is how a Game seven of a World
Series ends, this will be the best man.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
I Well, I think he got it and his foot
got back down on it from the angle I just saw.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
So for okay, Well, now we have the overhead, which
they should have shown from the beginning.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
Let's see here does he have the foot.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Goes off the bag, but it comes back down and
I think it beat Okay, I think it beat him
by We're doing it, not by much.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
Yeah, terrible job.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
By me.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
So the there was a force out at home again
Series Series Tide, Game Tide, bottom of the ninth, bases loaded,
Miguel Rojas, hard hit ball, hard hit ball to Miguel Rojas,
force out at home and the catcher Will Smith, just
by the tippy toes had his foot on the base.

(31:17):
You know who's up right now, Ernie klem.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
It's Ernie man and I mean that's what if you're
the Blue Jays, it's him with lab but I mean
it might be him. I mean, thirty hits in the postseason.
All he's got to do is one more time. The
last time he was up, he did the Jordan's shoulder shrug.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
Okay, well, guess what.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
We we have insanity, but not in sanity, not what
you think. Ernie Klemit with the bases loaded, just crushed
the ball to dead center. Piz and Keke Hernandez run
into each other. But Andy Piz, who was just subbed in,
catches the ball. This game has everything, This series has everything.

(32:00):
We are headed to extra innings in the World Series.
We're gonna reset that. We'll come back and we might listen,
jaymar We're on till two am Eastern.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
I got nowhere to be, so to reset four to three.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Going into the top of the ninth, a Miguel Rojas
home run for the Dodgers ties it four to four.
The Blue Jays load the bases. Yoshinobu Yama Modo comes
in in relief, the Game two winner, the Game six winner,
the Dodgers' best pitcher this entire postseason. Bases are loaded

(32:36):
hard hit ball to second base, a force out at
home gets the second out, and a deep, deep, deep
fly in which the left fielder and center fielder run
into each other, but Andy Pajez comes down with the ball.
We got three outs in the bottom of the ninth.
We're going to extras. We'll be back with plenty more.

(32:58):
This is Fox Sports.

Speaker 1 (33:00):

Speaker 4 (33:06):
Welcome back, everybody.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Fox Sports Radio er Torris Jason Martin broadcasting live from
the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
Yes, we are.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Live eleven forty seven pm Eastern Time, and we are
in extra innings in Game seven of the World Series.
A Miguel Rojas home run in the top of the
ninth tied this game at four. The Blue Jays loaded
the bases with one out, but Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Yes, the
game six starter. The Game six winner came in in relief.

(33:37):
He got two outs, including, by the way, should mention
a final out in which the left fielder and centerfielder
ran into each other. But we are now in the
top of the tenth, the Dodgers already threatening two on
one out ta Oscar Hernandez at the plate. Mookie Betts
is on second, so he could in theory score on

(33:58):
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(34:23):
You're a bit of a baseball historian more than I am.
You know, I remember when I was a kid, the
ninety one World Series.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
That's the one. I mean, I'm a Braves fan, so
I'm obviously that one's painful, but it's also You're right,
it might be that one. The only other one I
was going to think about if we're just talking about
all time series. Not to interrupt you, but I've been
thinking about this all day. Cubs Indians.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
It's a good one. Oh see.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Yeah, I mean, just like all that went into that,
and of course it being the Cubs of all teams
or the Indians. I just remember that when having it
all going into Game seven as well. But this is
definitely on the short list. I mean that game, that
ninety one game was a one to oh final, was
an incredible performance by Jack Morris all the way through
that World Series, and that was a Braves three to

(35:10):
two lead when it went back to Minnesota. Game six,
I believe went the extra innings where Kirby Puckett hit
a walk off shot to send it to Game seven
and then they got the one oh victory there in
Game seven did the Twins to win that World Series?
Like outside of those and then d Backs Yankees, Yeah,
which was the crazy Luis Gonzales finish to beat Revera.

(35:34):
Those are those are the two I would place with this,
but I don't know that I would place anything else.
I guess I named three. So yeah, this is definitely
top five for me and correct me.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
If I'm wrong, John Smoltz was the Game seven starter
and correct. Okay, yeah, John Smoltz is a good World
Series game or two. He is, of course in the
building on the game for Fox, for those of us,
for those just joining us, and if you're not a
baseball fan, we're gonna have a lot of baseball here
over the next two and a half hours. Because we

(36:06):
are now in the top of the top of the tenth,
the bases are now loaded, so Taeoscar Hernandez has been walked.

Speaker 4 (36:15):
It was certainly not intentional.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Andy Paz, who was just brought in the game as
a defensive replacement, got the last out in the bottom
of the ninth, is now up. Bases are loaded for
the Los Angeles Dodgers with one out here in the
top of the tenth. So this is the second straight
half inning where the bases have been loaded with one out.

(36:38):
The Dodgers were able to get out of a bases loaded,
one out jam in the bottom of the ninth. The
Dodgers now have the bases loaded in the top of
the tenth. Obviously, no matter what happens here, we all
know the game is not over. Blue Jays will have
the last at bat. But we will see if when
they come back up, if they would be in the lead,

(36:59):
if they are, if they would be trailing, or if
they would be tied. I'll be curious too, by the way,
while we're on the subject Yamamoto, I mean this, I
would think he would come back out. I mean, I
don't know who you got in the bullpen. That's better.
And I think you've already used what I believe five
pitchers so far in this game. So I'll be curious
if Yamamoto comes back out in this game. Let's see here,

(37:22):
the Dodgers have now used six pitchers. I stand corrected.
Yamamoto is the sixth pitcher, so we will see if
he would come out for the bottom of the tenth.
We are in extra innings in Toronto Game seven. A
Miguel Rojas home run tied things up at four to four.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
If Toronto is unable to win, they're going to kick
themselves for how many runners they left in scoring position
in this game. Just guys, they could not find a
way to drive home. This thing was three to one
for a while, and it felt like it should have
been far more. Yes, the door was still four are
two open for the Dodgers. And when you look at

(38:03):
it now like the Rojas play and then just the
crazy circumstance to get out of that bottom of the
ninth in that basis loaded scenario for the Dodgers. It's
gotta be tough if you're Toronto, because it feels like
you you feel like in your head you've won this
thing three times and yet you haven't. And now you're
on the door. Now you're on the doorstep of being

(38:24):
down and having to do something in the bottom half
of the inning just to stay alive. Like it just
feels like the Dodgers. It feels like the Dodgers found
a way and that they're going to get this done.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Well, I'll tell you what history pseudo repeating itself. Remember
the Blue Jays loaded the bass bottom of the ninth
a ground out force out at home plate was the
second out the Blue Jays have forced a ground out
here in the bottom or top of the tenth excuse me,
four to four bases loaded, two outs in the top.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
Of the tenth, big out.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Keike Hernandez comes to the plate just like it was
in the bottom of the bottom of the ninth. A
force at every base sends us to the bottom of
the tenth tied up. Obviously, it goes without saying. You know,
if the Blue Jays had gotten a hit in the
previous uh inning half inning, the game would be over.
So again, bases loaded, two outs, top of the tenth.

(39:19):
We are in Game seven of the World Series. Yama
Moto going through the motions in the dugouts, so it
looks like he will come back out for the bottom
of the tenth, probably regardless of score. Yamamoto came in
in relief, got two outs in the bottom of the ninth,
and now, wow, good, we're going to the bottom of

(39:42):
the tenth. We had a slow rolling ground out. Remember
bases were loaded, slow rolling ground out. The pitcher gets
over just to coach Jay. This game is kret when
you see this play. The pitcher beat the runner to
the base by and he missed the base on the
first attempt. He got his foot down about a half
a second. This has to listen. I'm not a baseball historian. Okay,

(40:04):
we'll have JP Morosi on if this game goes final
while we're on air. But a ground out the Dodgers
had the Yes, you just saw it, So a ground
out bottom of the tent or top of the tenth.
The Dodgers had the bases loaded, one out and a
slow rolling grounder just in time. We now head to

(40:24):
the bottom of the tenth for for Fox Sports Radio
ertors Jason Martin, We're on till two am Eastern. We'll
come back. We'll talk some Major League baseball and maybe
something else. Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (40:37):

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Welcome in, everybody, Hower to Fox Sports Radio er Torris,
Jason Martin. We are broadcasting live from the Fox Sports
Radio studios. A. Yeah, we are live at twelve oh
one Eastern time. It has officially hit midnight Sunday in Toronto.
We still have baseball. As Steve de Sager just told you.
We are in the bottom of the tenth inning, four

(41:04):
to four Dodgers, Blue Jays two outs, y Yoshinobu Yamamoto
one out away from getting us to the eleventh inning,
and it looks like we are headed to eleven. A
short fly ball to ta Oscar Hernandez is caught. We
are headed to the eleventh inning, Jason. For people just

(41:28):
joining us again Fox Sports Radio. Well after midnight Eastern
at this point, I guess not well after, but you
get the point. Hey, it's Game seven, one of the
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J Mart, I know you're not on social media. Social
media is calling this maybe the best baseball game ever,
maybe not the best baseball game, short conversation, and maybe

(42:12):
the best World Series ever. Game seven, second extra inning
game heading to the eleventh, the Dodgers overcoming a one
run lead in the bottom of the night, the Blue
Jays leave the bases loaded or one run deficit in
the top of the night. The blue Jays leave the
bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth. The Dodgers
leave the bases loaded in the top of the tenth. Says,

(42:35):
I know you're a baseball historian. Is this the best
baseball game of all time? No pressure, but we need
an answer right.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Now, I have no idea. Yeah, I can't say that,
but like it's just a great sporting event. I don't
think we need to go that far yet. You gotta
get a little further away than the fact that it's
still happening in front of us. It's just as good
as it gets. How about that, Like it's sports. Doesn't
get better than this baseball, Nothing gets better than what
you have right now. And by the way, everybody that

(43:03):
is tired that maybe catches us on podcasts for the
back half of the show or something, daylight savings time
there you go ends, so you're gonna get an hour back.
So pretend like it's an hour earlier than it really is,
and stay awake with us. If you can't watch it,
watch it, mute it, listen to us, whatever it is
that you need to do. But I would not not

(43:25):
be watching this if you're a sports fan.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
All right, So we're into the top of the eleventh
per the Fox broadcast, the third ever World Series Game seven.
We're third ever game seven in a World Series to
go eleven innings or more. Nineteen twenty four, only Arnie
Spanier would have details on that one and nineteen ninety seven,
which was obviously Indians Indians Marlins, Right, yeah, Indians Marlins.

(43:52):
That one, a walk off Edgarnaria hit is what gave
the Marlins the the World Series championship. Shane Beem, Shane Bieber,
excuse me in in relief for the Blue Jays, we
are in the top of the tenth McGill or top
of the eleventh.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
Excuse me.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Miguel Rojas, who hit the game tying run in the
top of the night to send this to extras is
up at the plate for two four. I'll say this,
Jane Martin, we could probably now is as good a
time as any. If there's anything else to get off
your chest in the sports world, we should probably do
it now.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
I will say this.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
You know, baseball is a sport that I do think
on a national stage, I do think probably just doesn't
resonate the same as football, maybe even the NBA. I'm
pretty happy that it has this stage. There's not a
lot going on late in college football. We do have
halftime Utah Cincinnati that is a ranked down ranked matchup,
but all the big games are done. Baseball has center stage,

(44:48):
top top of the eleventh in Toronto.

Speaker 4 (44:53):
Cool moment for baseball, to say the least.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
I yes, it is. It's exactly what you want. If
you're baseball, You've got you got an audience, but you
also a winner take all. Obviously, because it's Game seven,
you're an extra inning, so the drama couldn't be any higher.
You've had two incredible teams throughout this series. There's been
drama left and right. You've got maybe the best player
of all time on one of these teams, and then

(45:15):
you have an absolute stud on the other side as well.
And that's not to mention all the other Hall of
Famers potentially on both rosters here in this scenario. So
I mean, this is perfect. The only thing you're dodging
right now if your baseball is Saturday Night Live, and
I hate to tell you SNL, but I don't think
it's gonna work, not tonight, not against this. But yeah,

(45:36):
this is this is ideal for you if you are
Major League Baseball, because you've got I want to see
what the numbers are and I would love to see
the hour by hour breakdowns if those that maybe weren't
watching it first because their team was playing college or
you were watching the football, Like how many people right
now in America particularly, and you can probably Canada that too,

(46:01):
are tuned in right now watching this game as we're
in the eleventh inning.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Well, I'll tell you what, we might not have much
more of a game because Will Smith in the top
of the eleventh has just hit a home run. It
is a go ahead home run, five to four. The
Dodgers lead top of the eleventh five to four. Will Smith,
the number two hitter in the batting order. Dave Roberts

(46:27):
shook up that batting lineup with Mookie Betts struggling in
the two spot.

Speaker 4 (46:31):
Will Smith the go ahead home run. Dodgers up five
to four.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
Blue Jay still have one more out to get, but
we are three outs away from the Dodgers becoming the
first back to back World Series champion since the New
York Yankees from nineteen ninety eight to two thousand.

Speaker 3 (46:52):
Jmart, Yeah, Look, I mean Toronto had their opportunities to
get a bigger lead. Early I said, if they don't
win it, they're going to kick themselves for how many
guys they left stranded on the base paths. And now
they find themselves in this spot. They had this game,
it felt like they had it won three times in
the last couple of innings, and they may have lost
it right there on that one swing from Will Smith
took Shane Bieber deep and you could see it as

(47:15):
soon as it went off as bat that thing was
not going to be playable.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
Unbelievable game again. JP Morosi will join us as soon
as this game goes final. He's gonna have the context.
I'll defer to him on greatest game, greatest series ever.
But obviously Game three win eighteen innings, Dodgers trailed coming
back to Toronto three to two.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
Toronto takes Game four and Game five in La you know,
one win away, just like the Mariners were one win away.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
In the ALCS. Of course, in the ALCS they were
going back to Toronto. But Toronto survived back to back
elimination games to get to the World Series. The Dodgers
survive Game six, and that was a game too, Jamar.
We you know so much going on in this game.
We really talked about it, but that was a game that,
you know, all of a sudden, you got two on
one out in game six, and that was one where

(48:12):
you're thinking, Joe Carter, You're just thinking all sorts of
stuff and goodness, gracious, I'll tell you what really quickly.
We are headed to the bottom of the eleventh So
a Will Smith home run has given the Dodgers a
one run lead. It is five to four. We are
headed to the bottom of the eleventh. Freddie Freeman did

(48:33):
ground out to end the top of the eleven.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Let me tell you what would make this the greatest
World Series ever? Oh, somebody gets on base in a
two run home run for Toronto, Joe Davis. It's just
the ebbs and flows of the lead here. With Will
Smith hitting that, you see that all the energy drop
out of that Toronto side, and everybody's excited on the

(48:56):
Dodger side. And you had that situation with Rojas in
the top of the ninth. They needed two outs to
win World Series and the most unlikely source gets it done.
If Toronto finds a way to get two to end
this in the eleventh inning, then I think you can
start to have that conversation because this feels like the
Dodgers just won the thing. But in this World Series,

(49:17):
the way you feel about it, you probably need to
check yourself because this thing has provided such drama, why
not get one more? It feels like it is over,
but three outs are hard to get at this stage. Well.

Speaker 4 (49:30):
First of all, Joe Davis in Game one last year
dropped the gibbee.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Meets Freddy, I don't know, Vlattie, meet Joe, meet Vladdie.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
If if we get the walk off.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
You have the I don't know if you have the
perfect the rye a enogy. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
So I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
We are headed to the bottom of the eleventh The Dodgers,
three outs away from back to back World Series titles,
will come back. Three outs away, Blue Jays coming up.

Speaker 4 (49:58):
We'll be back.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
Maybe we have a final in Game seven of the
World Series again, people just joining us. The Dodgers have
taken a five to four lead. This is the first
World Series Game seven to go eleven innings since nineteen
ninety seven.

Speaker 4 (50:10):
We'll see if the Dodgers can hold on. This is
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Welcome back, everybody, Fox Sports Radio Air Tours. Jason Martin
broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. We have
a World Series champion. For the first time since the
New York Yankees from nineteen ninety eight to two thousand.

(50:39):
We have a repeat champion, the Los Angeles Dodgers in
one of the single craziest postseason games in one of
the single craziest postseasons that you will ever see have won.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
Bottom of the eleventh.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Dodgers took the lead on a Will Smith home run
in the top of the eleventh. Remember they were trailing
going into the ninth. The Miguel Rojas Solohome run tied
it forced extras. A Will Smith's solo Hoome run gives
the Dodgers a lead. Toronto opens up the bottom of
the eleventh. Vlad Guerrero double into the left field corner,

(51:22):
sacrifice bunt gets him to third. There's a walk, A six,
four to three double play ends it and the winning pitcher.
I was pushing for Miguel Rojas for World Series MVP
about an hour ago. I don't think there's any doubt
Yoshinobu Yama Moto to say or correct me if I'm wrong.

(51:42):
What was the two thousand and one Kurt Shilling. I
believe may have been Game six in Game seven winner.
Yoshinobu Yama Moto the Game six and Game seven winner,
as the Los Angeles Dodgers are your World Series champion.
Five to four extra innings in about five minutes from now.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
John Paul Morosi will join us. But I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Let's get it over to the resident Dodgers expert insider
fan Di Seger. You ever, how I don't want to
age you, but how long have you been following the
Dodgers and have you ever seen anything quite like that?

Speaker 7 (52:20):
I think in since the year I was born. You'd
have to go back to nineteen seventy five World Series,
the Carlton Fish game to have this type of game
that deserves to be on those top ten World Series
game ever type of lists that was not a game seven.
And by the way, good nomination from you guys at

(52:41):
an earlier hour as that back and forth Yankees Diamondbacks
World Series of two thousand and one, because remember it
was a month after nine to eleven and the Yankees
had two magical extra inning wins at home.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
I did a Google be Young Hung Kim google search
earlier because I was thinking he was the one that
blew back to back saves in this series, and it was.

Speaker 7 (53:00):
A Randy Johnson got the back to back wins in
Arizona Game six and seven, but he and Chilling were
co MVPs. The guy that takes the hard luck loss tonight.
Shane Bieber won a cy Young Award in his Cleveland
career and had valiantly come back from a long time
out and arm surgery to make it in just to

(53:23):
the roster of Toronto after they acquired him this summer.
He had beaten the Dodgers just a few days ago.
He is from southern California, Laguna Hills High School and
pitched for UC Santa Barbara. And here in the fifth
Game seven of World Series history, to go extra innings,
he winds up being on the mound and giving up
the eleventh inning Will Smith home run. By the way,

(53:47):
kudos to the Toronto Blue Jays in the first place
for what they have done in this season. Most of
the last decade, the Blue Jays have done nothing remarkable,
and then, coming off a last place in the division
last year, they win ninety four games this year and
come back in the previous round to win Game six

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and seven at home and eliminate Seattle, and then in
Game seven at home falls short.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
Here.

Speaker 7 (54:14):
How often in baseball do you see a Game seven
or any ultimate game, well like a Game five of
the best of five where home field advantage means nothing.
It's the pitching that means something. This ad it can
be added to the list of the great game sevens
in history. Let's not forget the game where in Pittsburgh
Bill Mazeroski hit the winning homer in the bottom of

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the ninth to beat the Yankees. That was nineteen sixty.
In that one, the Pirates had scored five runs in
the bottom of the eighth to take the lead, fell
behind in the top of the ninth, or tie game,
tied by the Yanks at the top of the ninth,
and then won at ten to nine in the bottom
of the ninth. Here in eleven innings Dodgers five four

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the final, Miguel Rohan, who had barely gotten to the
plate as a hitter in the past month, had the
tying solo homer top of the ninth. It will forever
be written, as many things will be written of this game,
that the Blue Jays were two outs away from winning
the World Series, and they were at the bottom of

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the batting order and Rojas tied it. The Dodgers had
so many chances earlier in the game to score, they
finished one for eleven with runners in scoring position, got
a sackfly in the fourth, sackfly in the sixth, Max
Munsey with a solo homer in the eighth. He has
more postseason homers than any Dodger ever, Rojas the solo
shot in the ninth, Will Smith the solo homer in

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the eleventh. Five to four Dodgers is the final. And
guys I mentioned it's only five Game sevens that even
went to extra innings. It's worth mentioning we'd have to
go back almost a decade to the Cubs Game seven,
which had a massive TV audience. This is not going
to top that the Cubs were series to finally take

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the title in twenty sixteen. That game itself, Game seven
was a classic eight to seven in ten innings they
won at Cleveland. You mentioned the Marlins home win in
a Game seven against Cleveland that was in eleven innings
in nineteen ninety seven, with Craig Counsel Brewers slash Cubs
manager coming home to score the winning run. And then

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there was the Game seven classic that was a shutout
through nine at the Metrodome in nineteen ninety one. Twins
eventually beat Atlanta one to I thing other than that,
the only two extra in game sevens in World Series history,
each happened over one hundred years ago.

Speaker 4 (56:37):
Back to you, Thank you very much, Steve de Seger.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
This is Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday now Sunday,
depending on time zones and daylight savings and all that
good stuff. I am aratorres Jason Martin joining me. Game
seven of the World Series is final. The Los Angeles
Dodgers have won back to back World Series first team
since two thousand. To do that, and I'll tell you what,

(57:01):
And nobody wants to hear from me. They want to
hear from our Fox Sports Radio MLB insider John Paul
Morosi one, JP. We're so grateful for your time, and
more important than that, not more important than your time,
but more important. You are the perfect person to contextualize this.
Where does I don't want to do that. You know

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it's so unfair, but right now, Raik, Series Game seven,
I mean, I know how much you love baseball, and
I can only imagine how much you are on the
edge of your seat really over the last seven games,
let alone the last four or five hours.

Speaker 8 (57:37):
First of all, a good morning here in the Eastern
time zone, A good evening to all of you. On
the West coast, and certainly congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers,
very deserving champions back to back years, but the first
time in a quarter century we've had now back to
back champions. And I think history is the right word
to start our conversation tonight, because when you look back,

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let's start with tonight's game. How many different moments and
turns will we now say, oh, that was the biggest moment.
That was the greatest moment Miguel Rojas, as Joe Davis
talked about on the broadcast a couple different times, with
someone who was not really a principal figure in this
series at all until the last couple of days. And

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then you see that both the home run and then
the brilliant defensive play to keep the game going. It
looked like the Jay's might have some heroes of their own,
with Vladimir Gureo Junior almost ending it in the nine,
and then the leadoff double against Yamamoto, the historic zero
days rest for Yamamoto to come back and get the win.
You think about how rare it was, just the third

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time ever a game seven going into eleven innings or more.
Every moment it seemed we were witnessing something we'd never
seen before, and that that's even aside from the normal
O towny history starting a game and then certainly being
a principal figure throughout just extraordinary drama. I think Game

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three is going to be a big part of how
we remember this world series. The amazing ending the last
night's game. I don't look at this as much as
I'm sure Blue Jays fans and Canadians are cress fallen
right now over the way the game ended, But to me,
this series was one more than it was lost. The

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Dodgers are an expert team in terms of managing the
big moment. They've got superstars that have been there before,
including Yamamoto, who has been there before both in Japan
and here now in North America. Just extraordinary performances from
some of the best players to do it, and then
also some of the lesser known names. And in the
case of Miguel Rowass, who is someone who's very well

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regarded and beloved among Dodger fans and in the Dodger community,
but it is not a household name around the base world,
let's say. And the biggest plays were made by Rojas.
The double played end the game yesterday by Key k
the catch by Andy Pages, which was a brilliant late
game defensive replacement by Dave Roberts in the middle of

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an inning which you almost never see, but Pie is
coming over to make that play, the Justin Dean play
to understand that it was a lodge ball yesterday. The
number of heroes here for the Dodgers are legion really,
and I think that it's important to really celebrate all
of them that wove together a game and a World

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series that we're going to cherish as baseball fans for
all time.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
John ninety one, maybe two thousand and one, and then
I also mentioned the Cubs Indians. Those are the three
in my lifetime that stand with this. And you know,
you've got to get further away from this to really
look at it historically, because we're kind of caught up
in the moment. But this has got to go down

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as one of the all time greatest World series ever played.
And you talked about all the moments and all the
shifts and all the turns and all the almosts, and
I mean twenty four runners were left on base in
this game between these two teams. Both of them could
kick themselves when they lost. Because of that, one of
them was going to have to lose. But what more

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could you ask for from a seven game World Series
than how well played and how tension filled and dramatic
this one was.

Speaker 8 (01:01:32):
Well, you're right, Jason, And here's a couple things I'll
respond to on that. Number One. I like to when
I'm going back in history and when I'm talking with
players who have played let's say, ten, fifteen, twenty years
ago in baseball, even in different sports, and you get
to the series, the Big Series, or the Super Bowl,

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or the NBA Finals, the Senecup Final, whatever it is,
I like to go around and look at the final
box score of the series or or whatever it might be,
and say, let me count how many Hall of Famers
we've got, and let me count on many legends that
when you mentioned their name, that that you are, you
are able to recall moments and where you were type

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occurrences in your life. Well, you look at this box score,
not just for tonight, but for the series. First of all,
Clinton Kershaw just retired officially now as a World Series champion.
That should be, that should be near the top of
the of the list of what of what just happened tonight.
So you had Kershaw retiring as a World Series champion
in a game in which the starting pitching matchup was

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Otani versus schuzerchures Are is going to be a Hall
of Famer. Otani almost certainly, Will Surez Are and Kershaw friends,
they've they sort of came up together. You then look
at others. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, time will tell ify is able
to pitch enough years in Major League Baseball to be
a Hall of Famer in Cooperstown. But he is a

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a global Baseball All time great. He's won the World
Baseball Classic, He's won gold medals at different levels for Japan.
He's a very decorated, significant historic pitcher. Okay, So that's Yamamoto.
Will Smith, by the way, that home run tonight improves
what I would say are his already strong Hall of
Fame credentials. Freddie Freeman Hall of Famer, Mookie Betts Hall

(01:03:21):
of Famer, Vlati mcgurero Junior, it's got a chance to
be a Hall of Famer. George Springer one of the
more significant careers I would say in the last ten
plus years. Houston. And then what he's done in Toronto,
So Dave Roberts will be a Hall of Famer. So
just you start lifting off the significant I just basically
rattle off eight, nine, ten names of historic greatness and

(01:03:42):
significance that were involved in this game. And you go
back again. You talked about ninety one. Why was that special?
Look at those rosters, and I think that we're going
to cherish this in the way that we cherish seventy
five in the World Series there with the fifth com run,
and of course the Reds ended up winning that one
in seventh game on the road, as the Dodgers did tonight.

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But it's the characters and the stories and the people,
and also this the truly global nature of this World Series,
and we referenced to a moment ago the viewership numbers
to I think fully capture what this means to baseball
around the world. And I always say this when you
watch a game at Dodger Stadium, you watch a game

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in Toronto by definition of course international, But go around
the outfield and ask yourself how many companies that are
not based in the United States you see advertised all
around the ballpark, and that number is growing by the year,
and you are now we'll see this of course, is
for Sunday, late Sunday morning, early Sunday afternoon. This game
was played in Japan and Korea. I Sung Kim, by

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the way, was on the field end the game two.
So the global audience for this game is going to
be astronomical and at a time where your sponsorships, partnerships
and all those different things and memories are made. We're
not far from the World Baseball Classic. The international dimension
of this is, I think what will take this to

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the next level where we're not just judging this by
the linear American TV ratings. This was a much more
significant happening for sport around the world than just the
deciding of one particular trophy on one night.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
This is Fox Sports Radio Erintorus Jason Martin. We are
broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. The Los
Angeles Dodgers have just clinched a second straight World Series championship,
five to four. They win in eleven innings, first World
Series since nineteen ninety seven with a Game seven that
goes eleven innings or more. And of course, John Paul Morosi,

(01:05:46):
our Baseball Insider MLB Insider, is joining us you know, JP.
That's such an interesting point. And I'm somebody who loves
to travel. I've never been to Asia, but I've heard
that you can't go a street block without seeing show
Heyo Tome. He's face everywhere. I assume Yamamoto is a
legend there as well. I don't know if there's anything

(01:06:06):
else to expand on that point, but I think even
you know, seeing Sho Hee O Tani and New Bounce,
I remember JP coming on with having you come on
three four years ago and saying, you know, is show
Hey a crossover star? Do people realize what this guy
is doing? And I think this postseason with the clinching
game in the NLCS, I mean, he established himself maybe

(01:06:28):
the most, you know, right up there with Mahomes as
the pre eminent athlete in sports right now.

Speaker 4 (01:06:32):
Like does that feel like hyperbolic to say no?

Speaker 8 (01:06:35):
I mean I think that he he is that. And
yet when you talk about the games that the Game six,
in Game seven that will ultimately decide that this World
Series Championship and did in the favor of the Dodgers,
it was the depth of their team that won it, right,
It were the big plays. And again Will Smith is

(01:06:58):
not a death player, as I mentioned, might be Hall
of Famer one day, and probably is on that track
at this moment in time. But I think the way
that the Dodgers won it you think about, Yes, the
NLCS Game four, World Series Game three were the Otani games,
but the Dodgers won three other games in this series
really on the strength of players not named Otani, and

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Tonight was another example. He started, but did not necessarily
have a distinguishing start on the mound, and even at
the plate, Tonight was relatively quiet relative to the rest
of the group. So he is I think the persona
the winning. All of those things stand out, but in
my reckoning of this series, he very much is is

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someone that shared the spotlight with a great many other
people on both sides of it, and I think I
hope that the baseball fans around the world also were
introduced to the way that the Blue Jays play, the
style they played with Vladim mcguero Junior as a scintillating
defensive player too. Just the focus, the intensity he brought

(01:08:05):
to this game, I thought it was extraordinary. Max Scherzer,
I thought, had an all time performance tonight as well.
This was more about I think the beauty of the
game than it was the the grandeur and the prominence
of one particular player. I think Otani was one of
the reasons this was the compelling World Series. He was

(01:08:26):
not the reason. I think this was a triumph of
the sport and what makes it beautiful and random. And
you find any other game where mcguel Rojas becomes the
star and basically Andy Pakes tackles the guy who's supposed
to catch the ball and then the day before the
ball is stuck on offense. I mean, these are things
that we just don't we don't see except for in baseball.

(01:08:50):
Like I'm a I love soccer too, I do, and
and this summer is going to be great when the
World Cup this year. Soccer, I believe, unless the rule
book has changed significantly, there are like a eleven or
twelve what they call laws of the games, like a
dozen of them, a dozen rules that basically define soccer.
The baseball rule book is the size of the Gideon's
Bible that is in the hotel when you check in. Okay,

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that's how big it is. And there's a reason it's
this game is complicated. There. You know, what is a
swing still I love this, By the way, I'll make
I'll take this chance to say this to our national
audience different when when I love the scrutiny on the Empires, who,
by the way, had I think a great series all
the way around. There is actually of all those rules,

(01:09:33):
all those words in the baseball rule book, everything that
you see in the rule book. You know what they
don't ever define in the rule book a swing? A swing?
There is no definition for a swing. It is up
to the discretion of the umpires to decide.

Speaker 9 (01:09:47):
What a swing is.

Speaker 8 (01:09:48):
Did he off read it?

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
Did he not?

Speaker 8 (01:09:50):
That's up to interpretation. This was a world series that
reminded us of the beautiful chaos of our national pastime.
It was not neat, It is not necessarily tidy all
the time, but man, it was fun and we got
to meet a lot of really interesting friends along the ways.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
That's really well said John. I also think if you're
a Dodgers fan here, I'm not. I'm a Braves fan,
and I really need you to talk me off this
ledge that Freddie Freeman's not going into Cooperstown with a
Braves lit on. That's really just eating away at me.
More and more by the day. But if you're a
Dodgers fan, you have you mentioned Pajez obviously, and you

(01:10:29):
have Rojas, you have Max Muncy who had not done
almost anything in this world series. But these are guys
that are incredibly beloved and they are kind of the
glue guys. They're not the biggest name guys, not the
highest paid guys. But does that mean something more to
you if you're a Dodgers fan. The guys that you
have watched wanted to see succeed got this thing done

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and it's not just about the biggest names.

Speaker 8 (01:10:53):
You're right and I think that. And by the way,
we'll see in you know, ten fifteen years. By the way,
that that decision on which capuare is made by the
Hall of Fame, so there's there all consultation, but it's
made by the folks in Cooperstown. I'll let I'll let
the president of the Hall of Fame know when when
I next visit there. What what what your wishes are?

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
Jason, I'm trying to say that.

Speaker 8 (01:11:16):
But I think you're right, And to be honest, there
will be I'm sure in the days that follow. Oh,
here are the Dodgers again they win? And again, Uh,
the quote unquote or the ruining baseball, as some have criticized.
I don't know, man, if you watch this World Series,
it's really hard. It's really hard to say that that there,

(01:11:38):
that the level that they play at is in any
way bringing the game down. I mean, they they are.
And let's be clear here, the Jays had their chances.
They had their chances tonight, the other chances last night,
they had their chances in Game three. No one is
going to be able to say that the Jays were
that the Jays lost this game because they were outspent

(01:11:58):
by the Dodgers. That that, to me is a rather
absurd take. They they the game was there for them.
The Dodgers won it. And again, this is not a
case of the Jays losing it. I really believe that. Yeah,
there were some laid home runs given up. I get it. Uh.
The Dodgers, though, are going to do that to you.
They're gonna if you give them enough chances, they'll win
the ballgame. The Jays stranded fourteen runners on base. That's

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that's why they lost the game, much more so than
any particular pitch that was thrown by if Avage or
Hoffman or anybody else. That you want to point out,
so I and again to that point, there were moments
and and people who are not going to be in
the Hall of Fame, let's say, like ROAs, like Pages,
others that had big moments and certainly defensively were really

(01:12:45):
important players for the Los Angeles Dodgers. And and certainly
it ends, it ends, it was it was, I thought
the last inning, the way the Yamamoto navigated it was
just brilliant that yes, obviously now all of a sudden,
Vladdie's in scoring position right away, but he's able to
get the one out on the bunt and then and
then really pitch around Bardar to where he was not

(01:13:07):
going to let Bargar beat him. He was going to
try to get the ground ball from Kirk and he did,
and that that ended the game and ended the season.
So just uh Yamamoto's intellect and at then John Smolts
made this point to watching the game, just how calm
he is on the mound. Are you kidding me? It
just is And coming up on zero day's rest, just
an extraordinary moment. And and you've got someone who will

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see probably in a few short months pitching for Samurai
Japan at the World Baseball Classic is the MVP of
the World Series. And his name is not Otani, It's
it's Yamamoto. It's just I think speaks to what makes
the Dodgers special. Yes, they're spending power helps, but man,
they play excellent fundamental baseball in a way that I
think elevates the game and and and should be something

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that baseball fans around the world are really proud of.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Yes, and to your point, JP, Yoshinobu Imamoto, winner of
Game two, Game six, and Game seven. In the least
surprising news ever, is your World Series MVP, JP, Man,
we got to let you go. We are so so
grateful for the time real quick. I know winter meetings
are probably cut. How much do you get to enjoy

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this before you're like, what's on the docket here? As
we now head into the first day in a long
time without without baseball on the calendar on Sunday, well,
I will.

Speaker 8 (01:14:29):
Share this with you that if if you want a
little more baseball in your life, Tuesday morning, we are
back on the air with MLB Network hopst ten am
Eastern time, bright and early. So a couple of days
to reset, a couple of days to get my free
agent lists all organized and then the calls I'm going
to make and all the work that we do for
the show. But we are right back at it and

(01:14:53):
it will be there. We have Actually the general managers
meetings are in Vegas later this month. I can say
this month now because in November so there's not a
whole lot of refs, and my friends, I would have
it no other way.

Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
He is the legend.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
We're so grateful John Paul Morossi our Fox Sports Radio
MLB insider. You can follow him on Twitter at John
Morosi j O. N. Morossi. Also you can hear him
on MLB Network Tuesday. He's already on from the Dodgers
into the posts he's in. So JP, man, we are
so grateful for your time. I'd say enjoy you know,

(01:15:26):
the next thirty six hours before you move into free agency.
But I know you're gonna be everywhere breaking down this game,
including I'm sure all over these Fox Sports radio airwaves
all day Sunday.

Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
Thank you, JP, and we will talk to you.

Speaker 1 (01:15:37):
Soon, sir, My pleasure.

Speaker 8 (01:15:38):
Guys really enjoyed the conversation and congratulations of the Dodgers
and gradulations of the baseball ball. That was a special
way to see the season end. It was a great
World Series all the way around.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
That was John Paul Morossi. Thank you, JP. Have a
great evening. Enjoy Thank you. That was John Paul Morossi,
our Fox Sports Radio MLB insider. We are always oh
grateful for JP. Will come back. When we do, we'll
react to some of what JP said. As the Dodgers
have won the World Series. They win five to four,
eleven innings. The Dodgers are your World Series champs. More

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postgame reaction.

Speaker 4 (01:16:14):
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
Welcome back everybody. Fox Sports Radio, Eric Torres, Jason Martin.
We are broadcasting live. Yes, we are live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios. It is closing in on one
am Eastern about ten pm Pacific here on the West
Coast and on the West Coast, we have a back
to back World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers Wild Game seven.

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Dodgers trailed four to three going into the bottom of
their top of the ninth.

Speaker 4 (01:16:45):
Excuse me.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
A Miguel Rojas home run ties it up at four
to four. Blue Jays load the bases in the bottom
of the ninth. The Dodgers survive. They win in eleven.
A Will Smith home run to lead off or top
of the eleventh inning gives them the go ahead run,
and then Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the winning pitcher. He of

(01:17:09):
course started and won Game six. He is your World
Series MVP after winning Game two, Game six, in game seven.
By the way, I correct myself. I think I said
Kurt Schilling was the winner of Game six and Game
seven in the two thousand and one World Series. That
was the legend Big Unit Reddy Johnson. By the way,
fun fact, J Martin Randy Johnson lives somewhere in and

(01:17:29):
around Pasadena, California, because I have seen him on more
than one occasion, you know, in a Starbucks or in
a whatever. H Yeah, Braddy Johnson is not the type
of guy yet that walks by you. You don't know
that it's ready freaka Johnson. I can tell you that much.
So don't know the same quite about you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
To make eye contact with the Big Unit or do
you just kind of.

Speaker 4 (01:17:50):
Like, you know what's crazy?

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
I would totally be fine with him, completely got you know,
you hear stuff? Who knows what's true? I remember pushing
the cameraman in New York's. He was listen, man, I
grew up. Baseball was probably my favorite sport to watch
when I was a kid. Like I let me put
it this way, it's actually the exact opposite. I think
I tried to make eye contact. I'll tell you true story.

(01:18:13):
We gotta get back to his Game seven of this
World Series, not the two thousand and one World Series.
I think I saw. I saw him twice when I
lived in Pasadena. Once, I think I was just so
shocked that it was Randy Johnson. I was like, oh
my good, that's Randy freaking Johnson. And then but you know,
by the time you realize who it is, you know,
he's out the door whatever. And then I think the

(01:18:34):
second time I actually tried to make eye contact with
him because I was just like, I want to freaking
talk to Randy Johnson. And if he shuns me because
he just doesn't want to talk, then so be it.
That's his prerogative. But unfortunately could not make eye contacts.
So so yeah, Randy Johnson Game six, Game seven winner
in two thousand and one. Twenty four years later, Yoshinobu

(01:18:57):
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U S S dot com Dodgers World Series champion. Man crazy,
It's crazy because I don't even know we got another
hour to talk about this.

Speaker 4 (01:19:30):
Jamarp.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
By the way, tell you what, why don't I just
get everybody caught up on everything that you missed throughout
the night.

Speaker 4 (01:19:36):
Dodgers win the World Series.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
Oklahoma did win the big game in Nieland Stadium against
Tennessee Oklahoma and proofs to seven and two. They still
have LSU, Alabama, and Missouri. So we will see if
Oklahoma can keep themselves in the playoff conversation. Uh well no, yeah,
I mean listen, I was telling somebody this.

Speaker 4 (01:19:56):
We don't have much time. But you know, if.

Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
There is a three loss team in the SEC to
make the college football playoff, they would probably have the
strongest argument. But you lost Ole miss you lost Alabama.
If they were to lose to Alabama, probably not the
same uh USC by the way, wins at Nebraska. Dylan
Royola left that game with injury. Tell you what, Jmart,
we got an hour left. We're gonna come back reset

(01:20:21):
Game seven of the World Series and we got talks
about itfl pretty big game, Alan Mahomes Sunday. We'll discuss
that next Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:20:29):

Speaker 10 (01:20:33):
Coming to Kerk broken back, grumball bets has its steps on.

Speaker 3 (01:20:36):
The back the Dona firs to the play from backs
against the wall to back to back.

Speaker 8 (01:20:44):
The Dodgers cement their dynasty.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
That was a m five to seventy Here in Los Angeles,
the home of the Dodgers. The Los Angeles Dodgers are
your twenty twenty five World Series champion. A thrilling Game
seven they win five to four in eleven innings, first
game seven to go eleven plus innings since nineteen ninety seven.

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That was the Edgar Renario walkoff home run for the
walkoff hit excuse me for the Florida Marlins.

Speaker 6 (01:21:18):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
By the way, also the Los Angeles Dodgers the first
team to go back to back as World Series champions
since the nineteen ninety eight through two thousand New York Yankees.

Speaker 4 (01:21:30):
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there is to say for people who people just joining us.
Just in all time classic Game seven, All time Classic
World Series, multiple extra inning games, the Road team won
five out of seven, you know, eighteen innings, tied for
the longest game in World Series history. I mean, you
just go on and on down the list of all

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the incredible feats. We talked about it throughout the show.
If you missed any of it, go back download the podcast.
But just bottom line, you know, we'll leave it up
to the JP Moroses and Ken Rosenthals or certainly if
you have any thoughts you can it's right up there
with the best series that I've ever seen, you know,
two thousand and one, as you said earlier, was amazing.

(01:22:45):
Ninety one is kind of one of the thresholds. That
was Minnesota Atlanta, a seven game series won by Minnesota.
But that is in the short conversation. The Dodgers multiple
comebacks just from the you know, just in game game
seven alone, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the World Series MVP game winner,

(01:23:07):
game winning pitcher in game seven after winning Game six,
he obviously came on in relief. Unbelievable series, and the
Dodgers are World Series champions.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
Yeah, so yeah, you can put it wherever you want
to on whatever list, right, Yeah, we already talked about
those three. I think someone would put the Cards Ranger
series in there as well. But yeah, Cubs, Indians, d Back, Shankees, Braves, Twins,
and this one. You can put them whatever you want.
But this is the real way to just think about
this in the wake of it. Sports just doesn't get

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better than that. Sure, Like whatever however you want to
view it against the all time greats, you couldn't have
asked for more than that, you really couldn't. I mean,
you had so many chances where you almost wanted both
teams had the basis loaded, and it feels like that
was going to do it, and you escape in all
of those scenarios. Saw this. I saw this pop up

(01:24:00):
it said the Blue Jays were so good that it
took one point three billion dollars worth of pitchers to
beat them in Game seven. Hey go, that's just funny, right,
Like that's not even making fun of the money or
the cap or anything like, because again, the Blue Jays
had the fifth highest pay roll I think, and the
Dodgers had the second, if I'm not mistaken, So I'm
not even looking after that perspective. It's just this is

(01:24:22):
how well played and how dangerous both of these two
teams could be, and so only one of them was
going to win it. But you just look at that,
and it's just that's the essence of sports. That's why
we care enough to be doing this and doing it
for a living and talking about it, and it's why

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so many people can actually find such release in sports,
because it can't be more entertaining than that. I will say,
if you're a hard Dodgers or Blue Jays fans, that
probably took years off your life. Every sporting fan has
that kind of moment. But it's just it just it
doesn't get better than that. Man like that. That was
perfection tonight, absolute perfection.

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
Unbelievable game, unbelievable finish, Dodgers World Series champs. You know,
we've broken it down from every angle. I don't I
don't know what else there is to say. You know,
blue Jay's valiant effort. You know, we haven't talked much
about the Blue Jays perspective.

Speaker 4 (01:25:20):
That's a tough man.

Speaker 3 (01:25:21):
They were picked to finish last in the East.

Speaker 4 (01:25:23):
Wow, I didn't even know that.

Speaker 3 (01:25:24):
I believe that's true. I saw that during the commercial break,
even with that payroll. I think they were They were
picked to finish last in the East, and they end
up in the World Series right there, and they had
it won a couple of different times, weren't able to
finish it off. The only thing is it's really hard
to get back and win. It's also hard to get
back period. So you know, that's a long season to

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come down to being heartbroken in your own building. But
it's hard to say that you didn't have a successful
season if you're Toronto.

Speaker 2 (01:25:57):
No, and and two things can be true it's certainly
a very sixth tessful season. As they're replaying that unbelievable
play by mcguil Rojas.

Speaker 4 (01:26:04):
Will Smith gave so for people who missed it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
In the bottom of the ninth, the Blue Jays loaded
the bases with one out two of the craziest plays
you've ever seen. Hard hit grounder Miguel Rojas, the second baseman,
throws out the runner at home. Will Smith, the catcher,
his foot was just ever so slightly on home plate.

(01:26:29):
I think it actually may have come off for half
a second and then got back on, and then that
was the second out. Then then a ball hit to
dead center field. Andy pa has I thought JP brought
up a great point we had JP Morosi on earlier
in the show.

Speaker 3 (01:26:45):
Is that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
JP Morossi referencing that, you know, Dave Roberts making the
defensive change in the middle of the inning and Andy
pa has ends up getting the final out in center
field of the bottom of the tenth when the game
was tied. So unbelievable and yet to the point we
were talking about the Blue Jays. And by the way,

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if you missed any of it, just go back and
download the podcast. We've talked pretty much exclusively about this game.
Two things canna be true. It wasn't a failure of
a season. But when you go back to Toronto, when you,
by the way, how about you lose Game three in
eighteen innings, Yeah, and you rally to win Game four
in game five in Los Angeles, you come back and

(01:27:31):
you only got to win one of two. Listen, Dodgers
are the deserving World Series champ. To the point that
you've made throughout the show that JP's made Blue Jays
certainly had their chances. I mean, I even go back
to Game six, that hard hit ball by Jimenez that
we thought was gonna fall in ends up being a
double play to end the game. But then, you know,
you load the bases in the ten, in the ninth,

(01:27:54):
and then in the ten. You know, you just have
so many chances. You know, I can't say, you know, like,
how do you recover? Because you have lad Guerrero, you
have George Springer, You're going to be in the mix.
But it's like, man, oh man, oh man. You go
back to Toronto up three to two, you need to
win one out of two. You had the lead going
into the ninth inning of game seven and the Dodgers

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still finding one.

Speaker 3 (01:28:17):
We were two outs away from a World Series. Yeahs
at home.

Speaker 4 (01:28:22):
Run and the number nine hit or two. That was
the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
If you remember, we went to break saying the Dodgers,
Oh they got the key, Hernandez, Miguel Rojas and show
hey Otani coming up. And the game was tied by
the time that Otani came up.

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
So Humbos can't ask for more. Man Like I said,
I miss If you missed part of the show, as
he said, you can go back and listen to podcast afterwards. Uh,
you're just gonna hear us in real time, just being fans,
well sports.

Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
We we kept trying to go away to it, trying
to keep people updated on what was going on in
college football.

Speaker 4 (01:28:54):
There was NFL news from throughout the week.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
At one point I was gonna be like, maybe we
talked Chris Greer for half a second because it felt
like we're gonna get a lull in the action, and
then stuff just kept happening. So I'll tell you what,
Jay mart, why don't we come back, and when we do,
we will start turning our attention to Week nine of
the NFL season.

Speaker 4 (01:29:15):
By the way Ian open up the phone lines.

Speaker 2 (01:29:18):
If anybody has any interesting, anything interesting to say about
Game seven, you are welcome to call in one eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox one eight seven, seven, nine, nine,
six six three six nine one eight seven, seven nine
nine six six three six nine. But we will come
back if we have any interesting calls. And then from
there we got to talk. A busy week in the

(01:29:40):
NFL headlined by a pretty big one on Sunday, Chiefs
and Bills at four twenty five Eastern. Come back, a
lot to discuss. Still, this is Fox Sports Radio. Welcome
back everybody, Fox Sports Radio Aeron Torres, Jason Martin broadcasting
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nine six six three six nine, tell you what we do.
Have a caller Jordan in Kansas City. Jordan, you're to
talk baseball? Are you talk at Chiefs Bills? Because we're
we're still on baseball here for another few minutes. Jordan,
Kansas City. How you doing your and their tours in?
Jason Martin, Fox Sports Radio, How are you tonight?

Speaker 9 (01:31:03):
Hey, fellas, I'm doing good. I'm here to talk some baseball.

Speaker 4 (01:31:06):
What do you got? Give us your analysis of man?

Speaker 9 (01:31:10):
You know what, it's really just an overall perspective. You know,
I really thought the game the game is I've become disinterested.
I played baseball my whole life, and I'm a Chief
saying and uh, you know, I kind of hated how
with the Royals they tried to make us think last
year that we actually had a chance against the Yankees.
We had no chance at all. But the Blue Jays
restored my faith in baseball with the way that they played,

(01:31:34):
because I thought it was just gonna be Dodgers probably
five six games. But the Blue Jays, they really restored
my faith in how things are going in baseball.

Speaker 3 (01:31:42):
That's interesting, list man. I think that's a really good point.
I think it's a really important point. I've said that
about the NBA before. It is important from time to
time that somebody else, whoever that is, the others, some
other wins because gives so many other fan bases hope,
because it reminds you that sports are not that easy

(01:32:06):
to script most of the time. It feels like that.
I think it's good for baseball that the Dodgers can
build this kind of dynasty, because now you got somebody
you really want to beat, unless you're a Dodgers fan.
Same way with the Yankees in the late nineties, for example,
and the Patriots and now Kansas City, and if you're
not a Chiefs fan, you were probably excited to see
Philadelphia get that done last year, for example, and things
like that. I think that's important. But it is important

(01:32:29):
that you have a Toronto come that close to doing it,
because now you're you're not just going to watch next
year and expect the Dodgers to win it all again,
or I mean, if you do, you're probably making a mistake.
Maybe they will do it, maybe they will win three
in a row. I think they're the betting favorites to
do it. We understand, you know that roster is stacked
and everything else, but sports oftentimes provides extra drama and

(01:32:54):
makes smart people look dumb, and this was a scenario
where it almost went that. And so the caller is right.
I think that this is why you should still watch sports.
There's a reason they play the games, and they don't
just say, well, this team is better than that team.
We're just gonna go ahead and hand it to them
and not actually do it, not actually go ahead and

(01:33:16):
fill through it. I mean, you could argue that the
Blue Jays were the better team during the course of
this series, but they still found a way to come
up short. But again, it wasn't just la and five.
It wasn't a gentleman's sweep. It wasn't a sweep. This
thing came down to the very, very bitter end. And
that's the perfect thing for baseball. You still get your dynasty,

(01:33:37):
you still get your evil team that people are going
to want to beat, but you also have hope in
the midst.

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
Jordan and Kansas City. We appreciate your call. Tell you what,
why don't we come back and use Jordan to transition
to a busy week nine in the NFL, headlined by
the Buffalo Bills hosting the Kansas City Chiefs. We will
do all that in just a moment, But how about
this for the final time this evening, Let's toss it

(01:34:06):
over the news desk Steve de Sager, My man, I
see you still writing down notes over there.

Speaker 4 (01:34:13):
You got more for us? What do you got, my man?

Speaker 7 (01:34:15):
It was a stunning Game seven of the World Series,
and the Dodgers did win it in eleven innings, five
to four at Toronto. We hadn't had back to back
World Series champs since the Yankees won three straight nineteen
ninety eight, ninety nine and two thousand. We hadn't had
a National League team win the World Series in back
to back years since the Cincinnati Reds of nineteen seventy
five and seventy six. In fact, Sportsnet in Canada said

(01:34:40):
to rally from a three run deficit on the road
in that Game seven clincher like tonight, apparently, only hadn't
happened with the Reds in nineteen seventy five. Remember, Boston
had stayed alive with the Carlton Fist twelfth inning homer
late at night in Game six. The very next night,
the Reds were down three to five thing in Game

(01:35:00):
seven finally tied it and the seventh got a run
in the ninth to win. Add this to the list
of memorable World Series and specifically memorable Game sevens for
the city.

Speaker 4 (01:35:11):
Of Los Angeles.

Speaker 7 (01:35:12):
They're due for their championship parade and rally on Monday,
and kudos to the man who hit the game winning
solo homer, will Smith. It came off of Southern California
native Shane Bieber. Will Smith caught all eighteen innings of
Game three in LA on Monday. He caught seventy three
innings just in this World series, passing a world series

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record set when it was an eight game series in
nineteen oh three. Batman deserves a ring and an unlikely
ninth inning hero. The number nine hitter, a defensive specialist,
Miguel Rojas, hits the tying solo homer top of the
ninth when Toronto at the time had two outs to go.

Speaker 4 (01:35:51):
To clinch it.

Speaker 7 (01:35:52):
The Dodgers had scrapped runs on a sackfly and the
fourth sackfly and the sixth.

Speaker 4 (01:35:57):
It was not looking good.

Speaker 7 (01:35:58):
Max Munsey, who had three hits did hit a solo
homer in the eighth to get closer. Boba Schett with
the early three run homer in the third, but Toronto
wound up hitting well, not getting the clutch hit. Shockingly,
they left fourteen men on base and then with the
slowest runner in baseball at the plate in the bottom
of the eleventh, men on first and third, Alejandra Kirk

(01:36:19):
grounded into on a broken Backgrounder grounded into a double
play to end the season. Blue Jays had led this
game at home in the eighth inning, four to two.
The World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto, it's just astounding that
this was last night's starting pitcher. He threw almost one
hundred pitches Friday and then another thirty four in relief

(01:36:40):
two and two third scoreless. He wins three road games
in a single best of seven World Series. The Dodgers
had gone with the same starting lineup tonight, including Rojas.

Speaker 4 (01:36:50):
At second.

Speaker 7 (01:36:51):
Last time we had a Game seven in a World Series,
it was started by Max Scherzer when Washington won in
twenty nineteen. Scherzer was tonight starter for the Bluejays, and
he said he's not retiring. He went four and a third. Tonight,
Clayton Kershaw. This was the final night of his future
Hall of Fame career. He goes out a winner again.
Shane Bieber. I've got to mention I mentioned a couple

(01:37:13):
hours ago on the show, a hard luck loss, to
say the least, a guy who had won a cy
Young in Cleveland coming off Tommy John surgery this year.
He had only seven starts in the regular season, acquired
by Toronto at the trade deadline. This is how his
year ends. And I must mention a reliever. The Dodgers
did not have Alex Vesia in this series. He, due

(01:37:34):
to a family matter, had to leave the team, and
so they had guys like Kershaw warming up in the
final inning. Never got in tonight, but guys like Will
Klein were heroes in relief on Monday, and Edgardo Enriquez
and then Miguel Roast. These are just unlikely, not having
nothing to do with payroll. It's baseball comes up with
these types of names, Unlike say basketball, where it's usually,

(01:37:58):
of course Lebron James, Sir Shaquille O'Neal comes through. Baseball
has the kind of heroes. Pat Borders, David Eckstein all
the time at the big moments. So in this postseason,
teams that out homerd their opponent went thirty and five.
And the Dodgers tonight came up with a solo homer
in the eighth, solo homer in the ninth, solo homer
in the eleventh, and they got away with it. They

(01:38:20):
won the World Series, isn't it Listen.

Speaker 4 (01:38:22):
I know we got to get to some football at
some point, but.

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
I I feel like they got outplayed in this and
maybe maybe scored. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good call.
Maybe by the end you get you know, you've brought
it up. JP's brought it up. Jason's brought it up.
The Blue Jays had more than enough chances. But I
you know, going into last night, I didn't feel good
going into tonight, and they found a way.

Speaker 4 (01:38:44):
It's credit to them, I will say.

Speaker 7 (01:38:46):
For someone like someone on Sportsnet on the air did
say that the better team did not win this World Series,
I don't think by the any game you left fourteen
men on base in Game seven at home, is that
the better team. I I don't think you can say that, Yes,
they outscored the Dodgers, but I believe we have a
co host can attest to this. The nineteen ninety six

(01:39:07):
World Series, the Braves outscored the Yankees, but the Yankees
will forever be known as the World Series champions because
of their clutch performances. And I must mention the name
Don Mattingly, who was the Dodger manager before Dave Roberts,
he was Blue Jays bench coach. He had never been
to a World Series. Despite a great career as a Yankee,

(01:39:27):
he had never been as a manager. Finally got there.
His Toronto team up three games to two and coming home,
and the Dodgers stunningly, amazingly win games six and seven
on the road.

Speaker 3 (01:39:40):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:39:40):
So Toronto's last World Series titles were nineteen ninety two
and ninety three. Mariners and Brewers still have never won
a World Series. The Dodgers were defending champs. They were
in the World Series for the fifth time in the
last nine. In college football, Number five Georgia beat Florida
with a touchdown in the final minutes. Wins in the
top ten for Ohio State, Indiana, and Old Miss and

(01:40:02):
c stayed at home. Beat Number eight Georgia Tech forty
eight to thirty six. Each team with over five hundred
and fifty yards of offense. In fact, it combined fifty
six first downs in the sixty minute game. Texas at
home survived thirty four to thirty one over ninth rank Vanderbilt.
Vandy scored three touchdowns in the fourth to get close.
SMU at home beat number ten Miami in overtime twenty

(01:40:24):
six twenty. The Hurricanes two and two in the ACC.
Notre Dame in Texas Tech each one on the road.
Virginia and Louisville each one on the road, and so
did Oklahoma, winning at Tennessee tonight thirty three twenty seven.
The balls had nearly four hundred yards passing but three
turnovers as well. Michigan edge Purdue twenty one sixteen perdue
oh to six in conference. Virginia had been zho to

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five in the Big Twelve, but won at twenty second
rank Houston today forty five thirty five. Usc trailed at
Nebraska fourteen to six late third quarter but beat him
twenty one seventeen, and it's Utah now up wow at home.
This is a thirty eight fourteen lead for Utah over Cincinnati.
Each ranked in the top twenty five we got about
ten minutes left in this game. The other late game

(01:41:07):
is San Jose State at home leads Hawaii late third
quarter thirty eight to twenty one. And the NBA had
a game in Mexico City tonight. Detroit beat Dallas. Speck
to you, Thank you very much, Steve to Seger.

Speaker 2 (01:41:19):
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Speaker 4 (01:41:31):
Oh my goodness, what a day.

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(01:41:56):
tell you what it took us until the thirty minute
mark of hour three. If you missed any of our
baseball coverage, download the podcast. At some point, I suppose
we should talk a little NFL. So Mary, give us
a little music. Put us in the mood.

Speaker 4 (01:42:11):
The big game.

Speaker 2 (01:42:12):
We all know, and you know we're not gonna preview
a bunch of games here because there's one game that
everybody cares about more than pretty much any other. It
is the Kansas City Chiefs at the Buffalo Bills four,
twenty five Eastern Time. Kansas City sitting at five and
three on a three game winning streak.

Speaker 4 (01:42:30):
Buffalo, of course, has.

Speaker 2 (01:42:32):
Been a little bit up and down over the last
few weeks, but had a solid win in Carolina last weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:42:40):
Jamar, take it wherever you want.

Speaker 7 (01:42:41):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:42:41):
You know we're planning out talking about this game a
lot more, but obviously Game seven took us into this hour.

Speaker 4 (01:42:47):
Just your thoughts on this one coming in.

Speaker 3 (01:42:51):
I mean, this is this game always provides great drama,
provides big Tom plays, an incredible quarterback play on both sides.
I imagine you're gonna have that again. Offensive line for Kansas
City is a little bit beat up going into this game.
I feel like this could be a pretty big James
Cook game as well, potentially if need be. And of

(01:43:11):
course he had that incredible performance against Carolina, but he's
had an all time year after getting that money in
the offseason, showing that they made the right decision there.
I got Buffalo winning this game. As a matter of fact,
if this were in the playoffs, I might go the
other way, just because Kansas City does this to them
every single year. But looking at this in the regular
season and just the way these two teams are trending,

(01:43:33):
I can't make heads or tails of week to week
what Kansas City is going to be. But I just
feel like Buffalo is the better overall football team, and
I have them catching this one and moving on.

Speaker 4 (01:43:46):
Let me ask you just a broad question. You just
mentioned it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:49):
Buffalo four and one in the regular season against Kansas
City kind of in this Mahomes Allen era. Will it
move the needle for you in any way, shape or
FORMO wins this game from the pre like, does anything change?
Because I think you and I have talked about it
a lot throughout the year, and I think we talked
about it even dating back to the preseason. Is listen,

(01:44:10):
you can give me whatever stat you want on Buffalo,
whatever sports book has them as the favorite for to
win the AFC, to win the Super Bowl, whatever, until
I see it in the playoffs, you know, And that's
kind of how I feel, you know, it's just I
can't think there's plenty of great examples over the course
of sports history where it's just like, you've done it

(01:44:31):
all in the regular season, and I don't want to
discredit you, and I don't want to be a jerk
about it, like you've been incredible, but you've also been
in this team in the regular season and every single
time that you play.

Speaker 4 (01:44:41):
In the postseason you come up short.

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
And so to me, yeah, it's great if you get
the win on November second, but it's gonna come down
to what you do in mid to late January, and
so I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:44:52):
Want to diminish a potential win.

Speaker 2 (01:44:54):
And I'm not, you know, if if they lose, I
don't think it really matters, you know, to me either.
Other than that obvious, the AFC East is all of
a sudden a lot more interesting than we were anticipating
at the top. But I just bring it up because,
like I just, I don't know that a win here
is really gonna move the needle for me and change
anything with Buffalo.

Speaker 3 (01:45:13):
No, not for me either, even if I think they're
the better team going into the playoffs. I said this
before the year. I said they can go seventeen to oh,
call me in January. I don't care right now, But
that doesn't mean I can't pick them in the regular
season to win this game. It just means you're gonna
have to show me in the playoffs. Here's a weird
comparison for you. And maybe you can shut me down
off this after I say it. But Buffalo to me

(01:45:36):
is Gonzaga.

Speaker 4 (01:45:37):
Oh that's a good one. That is actually a very
good one.

Speaker 3 (01:45:40):
Every year, most years at least, they're gonna be right
there in the mix, really good, maybe even a one
seed in the NCAA tournament. But they're never gonna get
the championship. And it doesn't mean that they can't do it,
just means until they do. Like picking, it just seems
like fools gold, and they've had incredible talent, and of

(01:46:00):
course we know how good the coaches and all this,
but somehow they get into the tournament. At some point
it becomes less about all the great things that they
do during the regular season. It's like, can you finally
cash this chip in in March? And they haven't been
able to do that yet. And that's kind of how
I feel about the Buffalo Bills.

Speaker 8 (01:46:16):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:46:16):
I totally agree.

Speaker 2 (01:46:17):
The analogy I was gonna make was and this was
why I was like, I can't think of a great
analogy the Ryan.

Speaker 4 (01:46:23):
Day Michigan thing.

Speaker 2 (01:46:25):
Yeah, but it doesn't matter now because he won a
national championship, you know. But it was like, you know,
once they lost last year, I mean, if they hadn't
won a championship and Ryan Day's coming back this year,
I mean, that would have been the example, right is
you know, let's say they lose in the semi finals
to Texas last year. It's like, Okay, well you have
won a national championship, you haven't be in Michigan. And
I don't care how good you are this year. I'm
not gonna believe you're gonna do it until you actually

(01:46:47):
do it. And so to me, just again, I don't
want to say that whatever, but I don't know, man,
it's just it's hard for me. Like I'm gonna watch
it and I'm gonna be really into watching it, and
I'm gonna I really enjoy watching it, but it's just
going to be hard for me to make heads or
tails out of it. I think that was just the
exact term that you used. Anything interesting from the Casey perspective,

(01:47:09):
they've won three in a row. They had the you know,
start to finish domination of the Commanders the other night. Obviously,
Marcus Mariota did a lot of the heavy lifting there
for the Commander, so you don't want to make too
much out of it. But Casey quietly has won five
of six after the zero and two start. The only
loss that Monday night game against Jacksonville.

Speaker 8 (01:47:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:47:27):
I mean they're just kind of casually doing what Kansas
City does, and they've gotten healthy with their weapons. You
get Rice back off his suspension, and you get Worthy back,
and Kelsey is starting to have a little bit more
room to operate now because those guys are on the field,
so he's starting to do a little bit more damage.
Kareem Hunt's been solid for you on the goal line,
even with Pacheco being kind of up and down. And

(01:47:49):
then Mahomes is Mahomes. If you can protect him, he's
going to make you pay. And of course Andy Reid
knows what he's doing. So the Chiefs are just kind
of doing what they usually do. To me, I still
call them check on high because I think from week
to week their performance is gonna vary and They're still
gonna lose a couple more games, maybe even three or
four before you know, all of a sudden done in
this regular season. But they're gonna be in the mix.

(01:48:12):
I mean, why would they not, especially in an AFC
that looks very battered and wide open.

Speaker 2 (01:48:16):
Let me ask you this, speaking of a battered and
wide open AFC, if the season ended today, wouldn't be
the Chiefs that got the number one seed.

Speaker 4 (01:48:24):
It wouldn't be the Bills that got the.

Speaker 2 (01:48:26):
Number one seed. It would be the Indianapolis Colts. Yeah,
travel to Pittsburgh to face the Steelers. And Steelers, of course,
coming off that Sunday night loss to Green Bay, second
straight loss, including that Thursday night game against Cincinnati, you
expect the Colts to keep on rolling here in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 3 (01:48:45):
I mean, man, in Pittsburgh's tough. But here's the thing,
Like Jonathan Taylor's been such a beast and the Pittsburgh
defense has been a disaster area. So either they're gonna
show up big on defense because they're tired of hearing that,
or the Colts are going to keep on rolling. The
more important thing to me, or the more interesting thing
to me, that's not really about the game, but about

(01:49:06):
the Colts is the story that they are looking to
sign Daniel Jones to a long term extension that they're
working on like a long term contract for him. I'm
just like, I don't want to say I wouldn't do it.
What I want to say is, can we get a
little further before we start making plans long term? The

(01:49:30):
Giants already did this once, Like, Daniel Jones looks good
right now and he's making Saquon Barkley look good because
Barkley even said, you know, he's just like, dude, he's
a really good quarterback. He's just had some bum luck.
He hasn't had the talent around him that he needs
and things like that. Now they're really good friends. But
as he started succeeding in Indy, That's what Barkley was

(01:49:50):
saying for Philly. He's like, this is what I told
you about Daniel Jones, but I'm still like wary of
giving him a ton of money to be QB one
long term. The Colts.

Speaker 2 (01:50:01):
Yeah, I don't know what the timeframe would be on that,
but it feels like the feel that well, I was
gonna say it reminds me of like perfect example of
the world that we're in right now. But like the
college football coach that gets the extension in like week
six and then they go, you know, like two and
three down the stretch, and you're like, maybe we could

(01:50:21):
have waited a little bit more before we gave him
one hundred million guaranteed or whatever, you know, And it
does feel a little bit like that, you know. I
you know, again, I think to your point, we'll see
when an extension actually drops, and I see both sides
of it. I think, yes, you probably would like to wait.
But the counter is, it is the Colts and Post

(01:50:45):
Andrew Luck, you've gone through, Matt Ryan, Carson Wentz. I mean, listen,
I have no problem just you know, waiting until December
nineteenth as opposed to November nineteenth to doing it and
seeing if it's still the guy. But let me ask
you this, like, do.

Speaker 3 (01:51:03):
You think the Cults are gonna be in a Super Bowl?

Speaker 4 (01:51:06):
Probably not?

Speaker 3 (01:51:07):
No, Okay, Ken, I was hoping you were just gonna
say no outright, but.

Speaker 4 (01:51:11):
No, yeah, they won't be.

Speaker 3 (01:51:12):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:51:12):
I mean, they could have home field advantage. But I
mean the counter is, you know, there's a couple of things.
One is that you know, obviously you don't want to
put yourself in a Minnesota Viking Sam Donald situation where
you get rid of him. But the counter is like, like,
I guess what I would say is he's obviously like barring,
like just a total meltdown.

Speaker 4 (01:51:32):
He's going to be back next year.

Speaker 8 (01:51:34):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:51:34):
So it's like and then from there it just becomes
how many years? How much money?

Speaker 3 (01:51:38):
Because I mean so by the way you talk about Donald,
they also let Daniel Jones go.

Speaker 4 (01:51:42):
There you go, it's a great counterpoint, so let him
both go.

Speaker 3 (01:51:46):
And now they're not sure what JJ McCarthy is.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
Yeah, I still Minnesota. By the way, playing at Detroit,
we probably should have known when the Aaron Rodgers stuff
didn't go away this spring, like the Aaron Rodgers Vikings
stuff kind of dragged on longer than it should have
if JJ McCarthy was really the guy. So that probably

(01:52:11):
should have been a sign right there. Maybe it was
a sign in real time, but yeah, tough sledding in Minnesota.

Speaker 4 (01:52:18):
I will say.

Speaker 2 (01:52:19):
You know, we talked about you know, we were talking
earlier about the Blue Jays and the fan base and
all that.

Speaker 4 (01:52:24):
How about the Vikings man just every year they're right there.

Speaker 2 (01:52:27):
Maybe they finally had the quarterback with Sam Donald and
I think it was probably Sam Donald with Kevin O'Connell,
but they finally let him walk, you know, they finally
may have had the quarterback. They let him walk out
the door. Now Seattle sitting at five and two and
tie to top the NFC West, the Minnesota.

Speaker 4 (01:52:44):
Vikings not so much so all right, yeah, Fox Sports Radio,
Eric Torris.

Speaker 3 (01:52:49):
By the way, we were right about the Rams. Remember
we said that the Rams falling apart and they were
gonna go over and loose to Jacksonville, and yeah, not
so much.

Speaker 2 (01:52:57):
Yeah, Rams fall to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
not so much.

Speaker 3 (01:53:02):
They did not know. I was basically no.

Speaker 2 (01:53:05):
That was one actually last week and we do have
to come back and wrap the show where it was
just like I was watching it, like, oh yeah, we
did just say that the Rams were just gonna just
not show up ready to go, and then not so
much took it took over business in London.

Speaker 4 (01:53:21):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:53:21):
It was over pretty early, twenty nothing and half twenty
one nothing at half time and Chris, all right, tell
you what, we'll come back, you know what, j Martin,
We'll have some fun at the end. I didn't have
Louisiana governor press conferences on my Bengal car.

Speaker 4 (01:53:37):
Let's let's let's wrap with old Jeff Landry. What a guy?
What a character?

Speaker 3 (01:53:42):
What a character?

Speaker 4 (01:53:43):
That's next?

Speaker 2 (01:53:44):
Fox Sports Radio, Welcome back, everybody, Fox Sports Radio. Eric
Torris Jason Martin broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio
studios here at one eight Eastern time. The Dodgers your
World Series champion, a five to four victory in eleven innings.

(01:54:08):
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All right, J mart I mentioned it before break in
addition to an incredible week of baseball, in addition to
gain a very intriguing game between Buffalo and Kansas City

(01:55:13):
highlighting a week nine in the NFL. Not sure that
I had press conferences from the Louisiana governor on the
bingo card. I will say this though, jmart maybe the
first sign that we should have known that Brian Kelly
was in trouble last Saturday. I don't know if you
remember this, but yeah, the game goes final, we're talking

(01:55:33):
about Brian Kelly, and casually I see somebody retweet the
governor criticizing LSU for raising ticket prices, basically saying, maybe
you guys should be rethinking that that was embarrassing. Well,
we all know by now Brian Kelly was fired on Sunday.
Just a wild week. Nothing wilder though than the Louisiana

(01:55:56):
Governor Jeff Landry. I believe this was a press conference
that started about snap benefits.

Speaker 4 (01:56:02):
Well it didn't stay that way. Here's Jeff Landry from
throughout the week.

Speaker 10 (01:56:06):
We are not going down a failed path, and I
wanted to tell you something.

Speaker 1 (01:56:11):
This is a pattern. The guy that's here out a roade.

Speaker 10 (01:56:13):
That contract cost Texas A and M seventy something million dollars.
Right now we got a fifty three million dollar liability.
We are not doing that again. I can tell you
right now is not selecting the next coach. Hell, I'll
let Donald Trump select it before I let him do it.
I don't know, but the Water superow is gonna come
up with a committee and they're gonna go find.

Speaker 1 (01:56:30):
Us a coach.

Speaker 2 (01:56:31):
So it is worth noting Scott Woodward was the LSU
A D. He has since been fired, and he was at.

Speaker 3 (01:56:37):
A and M. But he's not the one YE brought
Jimbo Fisher.

Speaker 2 (01:56:40):
Well, he hired Jimbo Fisher. He didn't extend Jembo Fisher. Yeah,
so a little bit of loose facts.

Speaker 3 (01:56:49):
What is Louisiana?

Speaker 2 (01:56:51):
I was just saying to Mary, Mary grew up in Texas.
I said, is Louisiana just like the cousin that you love?
But you know, you know, baby, I'm trying to think
of an analogy.

Speaker 3 (01:57:03):
Sure, you love them like you love him, like he
shows up you, like you take him in doses like
you can show up. It's like I need a small dose.
That's all I can handle this year. You love him
because you see him at Thanksgiving, but even at the
family reunion, you like go to the other side because
you just I don't think I can engage in this
conversation because I I, whatever these topics are, I don't

(01:57:26):
think I'm in the mood for these.

Speaker 4 (01:57:27):
I was gonna say, it's like I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:57:30):
I can't think of the great analogy that's probably better
than what I was gonna come up. But I was
gonna say the guy that like, you know, the cousin
that you like, But but then he just asked you
for a hundred bucks and you're like, what are you
doing with your life?

Speaker 3 (01:57:40):
Man?

Speaker 4 (01:57:40):
Like just just no.

Speaker 2 (01:57:41):
So and that was gonna be my question is like
I don't eat, Like this isn't the time to talk
LSU whatever. It was just so peak college football. And
by the way, like I I do think there are
a couple of interesting variables. There is we have very
limited time before we have to throw to Bernie Frat know,
but I will say it's very ambitious to say that

(01:58:04):
you're going to restructure how college football contracts are done.
Good luck getting a real coach if you're going to
be paying under market value at under market years. But
it was I just want to play the sound because
I've heard We've all heard it a hundred times at
this point, but I still think it's about the best
sound that you're gonna hear from anything in sports.

Speaker 4 (01:58:23):
Over the course of the last couple of days.

Speaker 3 (01:58:25):
Like I know how awesome it is, like the LSU
atmosphere and all this other kind of stuff, But you
had three coaches in a row that won national championships,
and then of course you had this situation with Brian Kelly,
and why would you want to go coach at LSU?
Like now, it feels like the baggage there has never
been higher. And it's not because you're replacing some all

(01:58:47):
time greade coach or you're replacing a guy that got
asked after getting paid a ton of money, that they
paid a ton of money essentially to tell to hit
the road. But the governor involved and all this, Like
you gotta really want to be at LSU to take
that job right now? Like I feel like if I'm
a candidate, I'm going to go almost anywhere else other

(01:59:09):
than that. I understand that you can, you could become
a legend there, but you've got to really love it
there because you've got to put up with some stuff
in Baton Rouge that a lot of how many governors
across the country are weighing in and actually having some
kind of real power when it comes to decision making
as it relates to college football coaches. It's I wouldn't

(01:59:31):
want to be there. Let's just say that, like, I
don't think Lange. I don't think there's a chance in
the world Lane Kiffin goes there. I've said that from
the beginning. I think it's Florida or he stays at
Old mess I definitely think that. Now. I understand how
good a job LSU can be, but I do not
want that drama in my life.

Speaker 2 (01:59:45):
Yeah, a couple quick college football notes. By the way,
Utah does win a top twenty five matchup.

Speaker 4 (01:59:51):
It just went final. Forty five to fourteen is the
final score.

Speaker 3 (01:59:54):
There.

Speaker 2 (01:59:54):
You met your coaches that are on the hot seat,
maybe fired Hugh Freeze.

Speaker 3 (01:59:58):
All burn men. I'll make it through the weekend though.

Speaker 2 (02:00:00):
Yeah, we might have another firing on Sunday, but we
gotta get out of here want to thank the crew.
Mary Mack on the board, thank you for your help.
Producer Ian Steve Desager. Thank you to John Paul Morosi
for joining us for Jason Martin on Meritorres. Make sure
to download the podcast. Coming up next Bernie Fratto of
The Bernie Fratto Show.

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