August 2, 2023 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon give their big winners and losers from the MLB trade deadline. And they react to the USWNT barely advancing knockout rounds at World Cup with ugly scoreless tie vs. Portugal.
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big day in Major League Baseball. We had the big
trade deadline. We had no hitter from Framber Valdez. We
got the first start by Lance Lynn shutting out the A's.
Of course, the A's are also shutting out the Dodgers. Well,
it's all right, that's happening right now. In the fourth inning,
and the Mets of a six or four lead in
the tenth over the Royals. They trade Verlander, they're still motivated.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
To play, and everybody trying to secure long term contracts.
This guy gave away funny money and then jennisoned people
to other teams. That's what you want a part of you.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You're part of this squadron. Like this guy loves to.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Write zeros on the check, Sure on mine, Sure, and
then he can sell me wherever the hell he wants.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I don't care. And that's the look, and I'm being honest.
That's the best part. And the genius of Steve Cohen
is that, Yeah, it didn't work with suz Or in Verlander.
It's okay, I don't care about spending money. I'll spend
money in the offseason. I'll spend money and we'll go
at it again and we'll try a different mix of guys.
But in the meantime, hey, we really jumped up our
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prospect pipeline and maybe you have guys that are gonna
be big time contributors to the team in the next
couple of years. So yeah, that's the thing. He doesn't
care about spending money. He doesn't care. Okay, I what
did you say? I look at that money as being
already all spent, so I don't really care. I want
prospects back. I want to build a big minor league
farm system, he said. I want to build the Mets
to be like the Dodgers, where you can sign players
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in free agency and we have a big pipeline. Well
it's a nice model to endulate, no question about. And
all the guys the Mets Scott all jump into the
top fifteen prospects.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, that's right, that's okod that's great, but just means you,
I mean, you still have some work to do. He
needs to throw some money down on the farm, which
is one of the changes that keep being proposed in
Major League Baseball. Of you do have a couple of
teams that can spend whatever the hell they want at
the major league level, but also funnel that back into
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scouting and technology and everything down to the minor leagues,
creating what some would argue is a competitive disadvantage. I say,
you own a baseball team, get over yourself and spend
your money thusly. But yes, you're right that to that
point that the Mets haven't gotten to that part of
filtering that cash down sure, which means guys coming in
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from other proven organizations. Yeah, they're gonna become your top prospect.
But now it'll just say Mets in the next magazine.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Do you guys know how to draft? We're gonna take
a couple of your guys. We're gonna take one of
your guys and make it look like it's one of
our guys because he becomes our guy. Now, yeah, we
tried it for him. He's our guy. Look what we did.
We developed him. Now to that last step, with the
Verlander trade being the big trade of the deadline, let's
get to the two big losers of the trade deadline.
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And normally I don't like to oh the big winners,
but when something stands out, especially two of the most
popular teams EEPN, the two most popular teams in Major
League Baseball, Yeah, because the first biggest loser are the Dodgers.
The Dodgers this season has gone. I don't want to
say how they expected, but it's gone how they have hoped.
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They went from being where one hundred and ten win team,
We're spending a lot of money and look where it
got isn't even make it to the NLCS. We had
an eighty seven and eighty nine win teams make it
there last year, So what's our philosophy now? Not a
lot of guys who want to spend on So we're
going to bring up the kids, let them play. We
feel like we have a good enough team to compete
and to win the division, and at the deadline, if
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we need to, we'll make moves and go get players.
And it went. The Dodgers have overachieved. The top of
their lineup has been really good. Despite the fact they've
had zero pitching and who knows what you're gonna get
any given night. The Dodger's still first place in the
NL West and it's been a great year. So now
it's okay, we're at the deadline. They made a couple
of nice moves, right, Joe Kelly was a nice move.
Lance Lynn, who was starting tonight, is a nice move.
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I'm at Rosario is a nice move. But they absolutely
needed at least one more starting pitcher. They had to,
and that's how that why the trade for EDWARDO Rodriguez
is a huge epic fail. Now forget about the fact
that well they were in on Verlander and they lost
out to him. Hey, they tried to go get him.
He had the Dodgers on his no trade list, so
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the next best starter that they could get, because look,
the Padres aren't trading on Blake Snell, right. They failed.
So now you're going into the playoffs with It's not terrible,
but now your strategy is hope. We hope that Julio
Urias becomes Urius again. We hope that maybe walking Yeah,
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we hope that Marker Bueller can come back at some point.
We hope that a guy like Bobby Miller gets it
in the next two months and turns into a pretty
good picture. Because right now, who you're trotting out there
in the playoffs, you are gonna be the underdog in
every single series. You don't know when Clayton Kershaw is
gonna be back, how he's gonna be when he does
get back. You had so many questions at starting pitching,
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and you didn't even make another move for another big
innings eater. I feel like if you couldn't get a
big pig, you couldn't get Verlander or Rodriguez, who said no,
then you had to go get another couple of guys
like lance Lynn that are gonna come and they're gonna
eat innings and there'll be guys. We can trot out
there not have to worry about bullpen games in the playoffs.
Big fail for the Dodgers. They were a big loser
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of the deadline.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I look at it as you have your opportunities. Look,
you love your prospects and you love your young arms.
And we certainly have watched that with the Dodgers for years.
When they trade someone, that means they know, right, We've
watched this organization for a long time because they they're
very uh you know, very guarded with some of those
prospects that get named in trade deadline activity.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I mean Miller being one of them.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Was he going to be part of a package to
bring in one of these bigger arms with Rodriguez, you
just have the unfortunate circumstance whereby dude didn't. It was
geographically undesirable to come out to the West Coast. That
was that was the report, right. He wanted to be
by his family, wanted to stay where he was because
of that. I can't fault to that for that. If
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you if you're able to execute and he goes you
like the you know the NFLPA, you got the franchise
tag in and now you hate the franchise tag when
you get it. Wait, it's not a good thing, all right,
all right, If a guy's able to negotiate a no
trade clause, either you're really gonna have to incentivize him
to wave it or sell him a tall tale like
I guess the Mets would for their two guys, But
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for Rodriguez it didn't sell, and so now you have
to pivot. The problem is, by time you're at this
point in the negotiations and trying to make this happen,
what's left on the board that you can go get
reasonably to bring in? All Right, we talk about Dylan Cees.
Wouldn't you just go the extra prospect or player if
you thought he was your guy? If you're buying in
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And this is where the Dodgers get caught in a
little bit of we've got a long term plan versus
we've got two months to go make a run towards
a World Series.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
They keep getting too much hope that because next year
is not guaranteed. I mean, I get that you've been
lulled into and you're used to a sense of the
last decade where we're going to be in the playoffs
every year. We're gonna do all. I get it, But
at some point the run ends. But that's an team. Hey,
at some point the run ends.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
But that's the point in all of this, right, whenever
you have an opportunity to go and win this year,
whatever sport it is, I don't care about draft picks prospects. Okay,
be judicious about it. But again, if they were that
good and near ready, it'd probably be up on your squad.
You'd probably find a space for other than the nonsensical
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service time issues that you run into. But legitimately, and
I know with the history of the Dodgers, because you've
had so many guys come up into the farm system
and then you talk about going into free agencies and
trade to what you've been able to build for all
these years. I mean, Kershaw's not getting any younger, right,
MOOKI bets giving you a huge run. He and Freeman
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always guys, you're healthy, you've got the division, go push
to get another title, because age gets you, injuries get you.
How many of these teams get through unscathed? Right, You're
just hoping that you can can ride it to the
ride the rails down into October and and just to
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get there Oh no. I mean, look, if the Dodgers
don't win it, it's a failure.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's that's where we're at with this organization. Every year
it's another year of Okay, the regular season was fine,
but what are we doing in October? And so with
so many questions about the health of players. Bobby Miller's
a guy you talk about like does he have any
innings left?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Like where where's he at?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Like he's been up and down through the year, but
at some point, knowing the way the organization operates, they're
gonna shut him down.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
What do you got, Frostburg? How long have you been
watching baseball? Jason? A long time? Really long time? Sure
doesn't show. Really we got the Mets? Is the big winners? Yeah,
trade deadline the Mets because they moved they they were
able to move on, they were able to move on
from their big time, overly salary pictures. Now not going
to compete till twenty twenty six. You're officially running. The
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Dodgers are not, which is why the Dodgers stayed put
you today. You didn't because they're all in on them.
You were told the season by a guy you anything,
the big winners, they're in first place. They're not the
big one, and the Mets are in last. Okay, just
wait what I thought he was going to say. And
the Mets were not in the last place. The Nationals
are in last. The big winner was Jason has them
as the big winners today. Trade deadline Day. Even keep
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people on your roster. They want to get traded so badly.
You guys can't keep that. You can't even get anybody
that wants to come to your roster. No, I'd rather
stay in Detroit than go to the Dodgers. Think about that.
I'd rather stay in Detroit. First of all, that's an
erroneous story. They might want to be hanging outside on
the East Coast where his family is. The Dodgers don't
play on the East Coast. Want to come to the Dodgers,
doesn't matter, Dodgers played on the East Coast. Doesn't want
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to come, didn't want to come to the Dodgers. Didn't
want to come, said no, sorry, I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Want to go.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Wait, how did that work out for trade Turner? I'd
rather I'd rather work out for rather stay here in
Detroit and was not working out for lose?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Did his check clear and lose he left his defense
at Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Guy already had millions. When when it when it gets
to the playoffs and you come in and I'm hey, Frostburg,
what's going on? These guys were throwing out here?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Man, we got nobody to pitch.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
We're getting o'time.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
We got Phil.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Bickford back from the Mets today.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
You know, we're not even gonna get out and you just.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
One last seem to worry about the Mets and the running.
They're out way, you guys are out. You're not a
competitive till thirty twenty six to stop six oh man winners,
my ass, Big Dodgers needed to get somebody didn't get somebody?
How many games over first didn't? Are they? Okay, what
do the I'm sorry the Dodgers. Do they measure themselves
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by games over first place or getting to the World
Series and winning? Yeah, we'll get to the World Series, Okay,
whether they win it or not. Okay, sure with that pitching. Sure,
but to win the next ten when they get o
time are yeah, you're gonna be You're gonna be like, uh,
You're gonna be like Dennis Haysburt in Major League like
like burning all this incense to make sure that Buehler
comes back and and Kershaw comes back like healthy.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Why are you downplaying other you know, different religious or
spiritual beliefs.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Why are you downplay Why is Joe boo and everybody's.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Hey if you get Fosters some level of camaraderie. And
I don't know, man, I don't I don't understand the
other realm. I have a hard time navigating this one
out of day to day. But MODI maybe win one
or win ten in a row with Otani.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I'll take b okay because because you know Tani is
definitely coming all right, you know Dodgers would have done
something he's definitely got Okay, Okay, well they did. They
tried to get a guy that didn't want to go there, dude,
they got rid of Noah Syindergarten. Well you know they
wanted getting a statue. They okay, they did draft. Okay,
the pre the pre trade deadlines, the Dodgers were good.
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But the dead the Dodgers lost. That was rid of Syndergarden.
Did I think you're underplaying this? Yeah? But dude, look
I was the guy calling for the statue.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You have to do.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
But dude, Syindergart last name and an executive of the year.
Five and a third shutout innings for the Guardians last
night the Dodgers. He got a hair he got a haircut,
and he was ready to pick. You screwed them up.
Many cooks in the kitchen. You screwed him up. Can winner.
Five and a third, five and a third shut out
of the Astros. Uh so he's back. There's one of you.
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are winning five to four in the eighth inning. They
gave up the lead. They were winning six to four. Uh,
and they gave up the lead. It doesn't matter. It
doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
You got all excited and all trade deadline winner. Sure,
but the big thing is the more the Mets lose,
the more stuff Mets gear is marked down on the internet.
I could get the Mets All Star hat right now
for twenty two bucks. The big the biggest question to all. Yeah,
I'd burn the twenty two dollars. I'd buy another sandwich.
But the the idea, you know, watching your guy Frank Katank.
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We got to see both sides of him because he's
over at the National Sports Collectors Convention this this weekend.
So meeting up with uh Dan Marie. You know, and
of course Pete Webber doing the legendary screaming. I sent
you guys the videos, so huh, you know he's kind
of turning into you, yeah vice versus of you guys
that riding the lightning in your emotions and love and
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hate of this team.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I got a fun to watch. I've looked at the
Mets from both sides. That's good. So uh yeah, listen,
We're got Joni Mitchellin's But look, Isaac Longcron's going to
give you the update in a few minutes about how
the Mets are going to wind up blowing this game
like three times against the Royals. But uh, the US
women's national team last night, both you and I stayed
up late to watch that game, and it was not good.
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After the game ended a very uninspired zero zero tie
with Portugal where they were one post away from going
home clean. Look the entire Fox crew, it was like
one big episode of Undisputed right Rob Stone, Carly Lloyd,
Alexi Lawless. It's like they were waiting to unload on
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the women's national team for such an uninspired effort. Here's
Carly Lloyd, former US women's national star who retired in
twenty twenty one, who had this and more to say
about the United States women's national team tying last night,
not being the team that she thought they could be,
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not being the team that we thought they could be,
and instead just a night where they were lucky to
move on. There was questions about why is the United States?
Why are the women, why are they dancing? Why are
they signing autographs? They're lucky to be moving on. They
almost went home. It was one big bat. I'll tell you, Mike,
it was. It was like a feeding frenzy, Like you
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could tell they can't wait to just tear into the
women's national team after this was over. I mean it
was like my television was bloody watching them talk after
the game was over.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Well, but even during the broadcast, it was starting to
get to that point, you know, the all right, where's
the burst?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Where's that surge?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Right?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
A couple of times Morgan would get the ball ahead. Uh,
And decision making is different. Look, the timing's different. And
that goes into like the deeper analysis of at least
from my untrained eye, uh, you know, on the on
the soccer world. Uh, and just having watched it and
talked to as many people as I could. We've got
friends that have joined the show through these years, but
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there there's just a there's no continuity, and the age
is showing, and the and the lack of separation and
all of those things come through. And in the broadcast
there were a lot of pieces of kind of dead
time because they didn't want to go all in against
what the women were putting up right, the the number
of all right, we've moved it into the into the
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zone and now there's no movement, no flow, no connectivity.
All right, ball's coming back the other way.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Here's Carly Lloyd part of her dramatic assessment of the
United States after the game. Thanks.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I have never witnessed and just seeing these for the
first time right now on the desk, I've never witnessed.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Something like that.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
There's a difference between being respectful of the fans and
saying hello to your family, but to be dancing, to
be smiling, I mean, the player of the match was
that post. You were lucky to not be going home
right now?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Okay, she's not wrong.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well it's like de Sean Payton of last week. Yeah,
you're not wrong, she's not wrong, but it was.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
But everything you heard and I agree with all the
with a lot of the criticism, but there's something that
everybody's overlooking. We're going to get to it. I mean,
everybody is overlooking this, but you could tell that they
were just waiting for this. And vats of Adanovsky today
said the criticism was insane. I can't believe that that
Carly would say that. I'll tell you exactly why this
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happened and why the United States was dancing and signing
autographs after. When you're playing a tournament halfway around the world,
you're in a bubble, right You're in a bubble. You're
not if the United States was playing a game, it
was here in the United States. They're playing in Chicago
and they tied. Are they signing autographs with fans? Are
they dancing after? Maybe not, because they understand the fire
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and brimstone that's coming for them, because this is the
overwhelming favorite and they're not playing well. But you're playing
halfway around the world and you're still right now, insulated
from all of that criticism. You're moving on. Let's not forget.
The United States moved on, and you know that as
long as you tie and had to draw, you move on.
So that's all it was. You're moving on, and that's what.
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So they're a little bit, they're a little bit and
nearer to that and immune to that. The same thing
is true for Carly Lloyd and Alexi Lawalas and Robstone,
who are all players who played the sport for a
long time, fans of the sport. They're sitting at their
desk the entire game watching and they're watching with a
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critical lie and you can tell every time, and there
was a lot of bad plays made by the United States.
They're mad and Alexi, what is that play by Alex Morgan,
which I said about one hundred times last night, going
what the hell is going on here? What is that
play by Alex Morgan? What is that player? What are
they doing here? So they're cooking on that all the
way through the game. So when they come on the
air after it is a bloodbath. It is an absolute
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So I understand because they're in their own bubble, the
four of them on the set, watching what's going on, right,
So that so I understand both reaction. I understand why
the United States was signing autographs and town. Look, we
are moving on. We're gonna get criticized, but we're not
we're not hearing that right now, and why they set
it on the set for Fox. Now, the couple of
big things that we're not talking about are and you
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can you can go all the way through on so
many things with this team, right you can go the
big picture of Carly Lloyd who said that they they
look like they're entitled, they look like they are arrogant.
I don't see any cohesion. I don't see any any
anything more than individuals trying to play. They haven't had
time together. All of these things she's right about. These
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are all big picture things she's right about, and and
I don't doubt any of that now. Carly Lloyd, of
course didn't have the greatest ending with the women's national
team for the end of her career. She thought I
should be playing more. She was coming off the bench.
She showed that I can keep scoring goals. The two
biggest things to take away from this with the United States,
and yes, all of those things are true for curlic.
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Number one is not every team is great, okay, just
because they are viewed as the best team in the world,
and we thought they were the best team and they've
won the last two World Cups. Doesn't mean this edition
of the United States team is great. No, they have problems,
just like all the other countries have problems. This is
just because you play on the US women's national team
and you keep hearing Trinity Robin, Trinity Robbin, Trinity Robbin
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is not a great player yet. Okay, Triny Robbin is
not a great player. Alex Morgan is not the player
she was four years ago. Joe, by the way, what
did I tell you it was? The biggest thing is
Alex Morgan is still an elite scorer. As you can see,
she is not Megan Rapino. How many minutes is she
going to play? Just because we think they are doesn't
mean they're a great team. And now after you've seen
this the first there's three games they've played, you can
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tell they're a good team. Other teams are good too.
They can win, they can lose. That's just the reality
of this. This is not they don't have They're not
They're not wall to wall superstars. Rose Level is a
pretty good player, but is she a big time superstar?
She's not. Right, she's a good player, but she's not
and she's not available. As gritty as gritty as Lindsay
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Horan is and she's my favorite player on the US
women's national team. Lindsay Horan so far in this tournament
has been really good, but she's also been a little
bit invisible at times. And she got subbed out last night,
which is really surprised hell out of me in the
final ten minutes, like, okay, so something's going on there.
So they're not a great team just because you see
them put the uniform on. Every team is different, and
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this is just a down cycle for the United States
women's national team. They're waiting for the next level of
superstars to come. There's no Rappino on this team. Sophia
Smith is not Alex Morgan. I mean, you're talking about
some of the greatest soccer players in the history of
the world that have won in the last couple of Cups,
and as well, they're they're good because we're the United States. No,
that's the that's the big thing that people don't get.
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But on the field, the thing that gets it, and
you and I talked about this before before the show tonight,
is you've seen a lot of criticism. Some of this
criticism is a little bits a little bit Miss Misuh
misappropriated because you've heard if you watch the games, Hey,
the United States, they feel like they're playing slow. A
lot of their moves are very predictable, and that's really
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not the case watching this team. It's they are slow.
They're slow because the last time we saw this team
play was in not in the World Cup, but it
was in the Olympics when they looked slow and they
look like we're getting run up and down the field.
And what have you seen the first three games? Have
our forwards run free for shots on goal? No, the
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defense has always had a chance to get back and
get in their passing lanes. Are you seeing midfielders run
free as Roosevelt getting downfield unimpeded with a chance to
set up a play. No, defenders are on her and
and and they're fouling and they're stopping the United States
because the United States team speed is slow. So you
have that big case of Okay, the team is not
great and they go. But the number one thing, and
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that's a roster problem, is that it's hard to win
when you don't have team speed. You watch all the
other teams we play, they're all making plays. The defense
is getting back big right, you're seeing the other teams
blow by some of our players, and that's a huge
thing that is not fixable, right, that is not fixable
when you have no team speed. And when watching the
game last night, I'm watching breakouts going, well, here's there's
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instead of a big through ball here or here's a
big volley. No, this is gonna be broken up and
it's not going to get through because they're just not
fast enough. It's not about all they're playing, so no,
they're just their team speed is not good.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
We're gonna have to pull back and create an opportunity.
And while they did outshoot Portugal, what was it seventeen
to five or something was the final final tally and
then you have the post shot. Is really the thing
that leaves the big on the game is possession was
more Portugal. Lavelle now with the yellow cards, she's going
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to miss the next match, so that's a big deal.
You talk about Rapino and Alex Morgan, Well, Morgan had chances,
she gets caught or she's trying, and we watch it
at all levels. You watch it with your daughter's team,
and this is the she's reverting to some of the
stuff early on. It's like take your shot, right, you've
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got the opening, you found the daylight. Take your shot.
Dribbling back into traffic, into the box. You're not getting
the ball through three defenders, just not working. And so
what do we see? The ball bounce and redirected the
other way. Time and again, Rapino a couple of chances coming.
Once she subbed into the game. You got a little
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bit of spark of energy, but that's short, short lived.
And you talk Rodman, you talk Smith, you talk a
lot of young players. It's exciting for what may become.
But remember, you know the larger picture does play here,
is that the rest of the world's caught up conditioning wise,
team wise, strategy wise. For the US, you've got the NWSL.
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It's still playing now right, our guy Isaac Lonkron working
for Angel City.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
But you know what did you have?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
All Right? We met for a flight and we got
to hang out and drink lattes before we got on
a flight to New Zealand, and then what three or
four days before you're into match activity, Like that's not
months of training, that's not Hey, let's integrate all these
new faces and new bodies and figure out where there's flow,
where there can be some operational efficiencies gained, and all
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of that's showing on the pitch.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Right.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
How many times have you seen all right, there's a
bit of a breakout and then you look around it's like,
all right, I'm going one on four. We've got to
pull it back because I don't have anybody running with me,
and so it's just a different animal and a different game.
And I think it's great that the rest of the
world's caught up. It's great for the game, for the US.
It gets to the criticism and to address your original
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point though of the you're insulated. Hey, you still got through, right,
succeed and proceed. It's not the result you wanted. And
who loves a nil nil tie? Nobody. Players don't love it,
Fans hate it. The broadcasters didn't get to do a
big gold call, so they're salty too. But you got through,
and look, the criticism is gonna come, and hopefully you're
(27:28):
mature enough and you've been in the game and spotlight
long enough that that should just wash off you. It
won't because once they hear it, just like coach did,
they're going to have their response to it. But people
are expecting dominance and that's you get used to it.
You get accustomed to it.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
You expect the Dodgers to be in the playoffs every
year for a long time. You expect the Lakers to
be good. Then you had a decade where everybody lost
their minds, Like, I'm sorry. For a decade they were
like everybody else, right, I'm used to the Hey, every
once in a while my team has shot, I get excited.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I don't get spoiled by it. Man, I don't get
spoiled by dominance. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
What do you got, Frostburg. There's a big silver lining
in all of this with the women's national team. They're
not the Mets. They even play later in the morning
where nobody's gonna watch for the next yea, yeah, next
two games are really smack dab in the middle of
the night. It's like.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
They've got there. So they've got the three o'clock really difficult.
It's really difficult night, you know. But here's the thing
is that I don't know how much the rest of
the world is caught up, because when you hear the
rest of the world cut up, you think, like globally,
here's all these teams, but.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
It takes two or five. Certain teams have gotten certain
teams have gotten have gotten better, surely, you know, look
Sweden's playing, Look, Japan is running.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
At their first game in this in this tournament was
a train wreck. I watched that live. Looking around on
this is supposed to be the number three team in
the world. Like for if you're a US fan, you
didn't feel so bad watching that one. And but now
here they are and they've gotten right.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
But this is this is not so much that as
it is. This is a US team that has come
back to the pack a little bit because they're not
as talented. Sure now it's not a team that can't
win the World Cup, because they can, but they're a
team that can easily get beat by anybody left in
the knockout round. You just had you just had a
a you just had a play in where you're playing
the lowest seeded team and you only beat them three nothing,
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and you got two draws. One was against a good team,
one was against a team it's not even the top
twenty team in the world. And they looked, they looked faster,
they looked fresher, they looked everything. It was really difficult. Well,
they also savored the opportunity to knock the US out
right right, but don't discount but they had their chance
to win. See the one thing they did, honestly, they
went for the win way too late, like they like
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Portugal needed to be and that's the one thing that
they needed. Once they got to like the seventieth minute,
they needed to say, all right, we gotta go because
we can win and we can move But they didn't
really do that until like the eighty fifth minute. You
saw at that point it was oh wow. And the
United States not making the substitutions till late, they had
a lot of tired legs, Like if they had started
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going because you gotta go, because you know, hey, we
can move on here, but we gotta win the game.
Once you get to that seventieth minute, Okay, we've played
twenty five minutes here in the second half, it still
zips it. We need some time to get going to
get that goal. So thankfully for the United States, they
really started to press way too late. They only had
about ten or twelve minutes a game time to prey.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
You know what's great, as we're sitting here in the
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Speaker 1 (30:33):
Hours, just like I did in the middle of the
night last night.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
We'd finished up a soccer tournament down in delmar my
kids sitting there. She's got a giant ice pack on
her head, stitches. Thank you for taking care of everything
yesterday as I attended to her. But we're sitting there
and we're muttering under our breaths for two hours.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
What do we watch? Yeah, it was Look, it's just
not as good a team. And they're slow that and
you kick the mast slow you can't, no, no, no,
well yeah, the metsro slow, Metro slow. They don't steal basis.
Neither do the Dodgers, by the way, and what they
seem to find a way around it. We weren't talking hit.
They hit the doubles to the gap. I think Freddy
Freeman leads a team in stolen bases, if I'm not mistake.
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Low and Cron. You can skip over the results and
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Just because I can skip over the details doesn't necessarily
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tonight from ber Valdez of the Houston Astros pitch to
no hitter against the Cleveland Guardians at Minute Made Park.
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Here's how the final out sounded on KMBE.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Here's the o t the Gallagher broken fat soft liner,
Peyna catches it and.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
A no hitter. Robert Valdez first one of greatams. Baldonado
and the rest of his teammates.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Pileon Probert Valdez bote the sixteenth no hitter.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
And here'ston Astro's history.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Astro's winning two or nothing. Valdez seven strikeouts he faced
the minimum twenty seven batters. He allowed just to walk
in the fifth inning that was raised on a double play.
At Wrigley, the Cubs tied a franchise record with seven
home runs in a twenty to nine win over Cincinnati
Dansby Swanson two home runs and five RBI. You know what, Jason,
(32:50):
On second thought, maybe you're right. I think that I
won't tell you the details of how the Cakansas City
Royals and New York Mets were tied at six at
Kansas City. In the bottom of the tenth inning, the
Royals had the bases loaded, Josh Walker on the mound
for the Mets. I'm going to accede to your wishes.
(33:14):
I'm not going to tell you how and why and
what happened next. I'm going to let the Royals broadcasters
do it.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
On CASEYSB Francisco Albarez calls time.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
And goes down to the mound for a mound busy.
Now the umpires are conferring.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Oh, they called the puck.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
They called a puck.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
The game is over.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
They called a book on Josh Walker before he even
threw a pitch.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
The Royals win at seven to six.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
On a book of all.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
Things the Mets contended it was because of an issue
with the PitchCom communication device between Walker and catcher Francisco Alvarez.
In fact, moments before Walker stepped off the rubber, Alvarez
was seen reaching his left hand up to his left ear,
mimicking and making the sign for there being a problem
with the pitchclm device. But it's in the books. For
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a victory for Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
The Mets lose on a delayed walk off BOK.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Yes, that's how they did it. Yes, technically the case.
I'm just gonna let that sink in for a moment. Meanwhile,
in Colorado, the Padres have an eight to five lead
over the Rockies in the bottom of the ninth, thenning
two home runs for Juan Soto of San Diego Key
k Hernandez a basis clearing double moments ago for the Dodgers,
(34:38):
who have a four to nothing lead over the A's
in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Back to you, the Mets, suck.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
I did not push that button.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
That was not made. He didn't even throw a pitch.
Josh Walker came in, didn't even throw a pitch. That
is so totally Mets. That is just so tough, but on.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
The day that you won, not at air quotes the
trade deadline. You lose spectacularly. Look like I always tell you,
if you're gonna go down and lose a game, lose spectacularly.
Foil And this is just the next bullet point on
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So the big losers of the trade deadline the Dodgers losers,
and the Yankees. The Yankee the Yankees. And this is
what's fascinating about the Yankees. The Yankees make a move,
they get a picture, but it's not nearly what they need,
because this is a team that still is above five
hundred in a very difficult division, that needs things right. Yeah,
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they need a lot. You could have thrown a dart
and gotten something that you need to know. We need
we need a bat, we need a reliever, or we
need a starting picture. And the Yankees, once again at
the deadline, are extremely quiet. And the reason behind this,
I can tell you, and this is why the Yankees
are big losers, is because Brian Cashman's been the GM
there for a long time, has gotten to the point
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over the years where he has driven to the middle
of the road where he is afraid to trade any
prospect anywhere for anything. I vividly remember him a couple
of years ago when they could have made a trade
and they could have gotten a big star for one
of their prospects, and prospects involved, and they said, hey,
what did you think about that deal? And he's very
(38:36):
candidly said, come on, man, I gotta walk around in
this town. I can't make a trade like that. He's
got to the point where he's afraid to trade any
prospect because if they go someplace and win, he knows
that he's never going to hear the end of it.
It's all his fault. And what happened to all these
guys who were untradeable, Miguel Andrew harr and Gary Sanchez,
all these guys. Oh man, you could have traded all
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of them many times over and you could have gotten
better players. But it's like the Yankees. They're not even
the Yankees anymore. The Mets and the Dodgers are more
of the Yankees than the Yankees are. They have decided
to be a team where we'll spend when we want
to and and and we'll bring in some some some
fill the uh, you know, we'll fill some spots for
a little while and then we'll work on a long
(39:19):
term solution. But this Yankee team, what maybe the Yankees was, Hey,
when we need something, we're not afraid to go out
and get it. And maybe they thought this is not
our year, but you're still you're still right there at
the thick of the wildcard chase. I don't know why
you wouldn't try to go for it a little bit,
but it's it's Brian Casher. They've decided we're just not
gonna trade our prospects because we're so worried that they're
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gonna go someplace be stars. And why would you trade
that guy? Why don't you? And it's it's it's in
his head. It's in his head because there's no reason
why the Yankees with a farm system of players that
any team would love to have because they're Yankee players.
You gotta know, some of them aren't gonna be stars.
You can trade them away, but other teams value them
because they're Yankees prospects. You could make moves and you
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could get big players to come in that could have
helped the team over the past few years. But it's
not like that anymore.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Well, but you know, big Stein can't walk back through
that door right to where you know, Gotham has to
be first. Like cash Ben's just been in a nice
comfortable space, even when it's been uncomfortable, Like we were
talking about him about whether he should have been fired
the last couple of years with some of the moves
they didn't make, and well he keeps getting the next year.
(40:27):
Added on to your point the hey, I've got to
walk around here because people love their prospects.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
They always have.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
But look at the production volpi Jason Dominguez down in
the minor leagues. He's only nineteen, but the expectation was
he was going to be fast tracked, and this kid'll
be mashing. It'll be like Griffy coming up with Seattle
all those years ago and some of the stuff we've seen.
So you make a couple of moves, you get Spencer
Howard for cash considerations and Middleton from the White Sox.
(40:54):
I love some of the quotes from the Yankee players though,
you had Aaron Aaron j just kind of talking about, well,
whatever gets its close to being a better team winning,
that's why I'm here. Okay, Hey, gosh Ioka, I don't
have a lot of emotions that would be my mood
even if we got Otani, Like, I just love that.
It's like, ah, what are you gonna do? We gotta
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keep going out and playing. But for the Yankees, yeah,
they're playing like they're a middle tier, middle of the
road kind of squad. No longer big bad Yankees by
and and bringing all these big guys like Boomer and
everything like they did back in the day.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
They've got they've gotten afraid. They've gotten afraid to make
trades when they never were and now it's not.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Spending all the money on Judge and Stanton probably has
left them a little gunshy with the games they've missed.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
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big day in Major League Baseball. We had the big
trade deadline. We had no hitter from Framber Valdez. We
got the first start by Lance Lynn shutting out the A's.
Of course, the A's are also shutting out the Dodgers. Well,
it's all right, that's happening right now. In the fourth inning,
and the Mets of a six or four lead in
the tenth over the Royals. They trade Verlander, they're still motivated.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
To play, and everybody trying to secure long term contracts.
This guy gave away funny money and then jennisoned people
to other teams. That's what you want a part of you.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You're part of this squadron. Like this guy loves to.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Write zeros on the check, Sure on mine, Sure, and
then he can sell me wherever the hell he wants.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I don't care. And that's the look, and I'm being honest.
That's the best part. And the genius of Steve Cohen
is that, Yeah, it didn't work with suz Or in Verlander.
It's okay, I don't care about spending money. I'll spend
money in the offseason. I'll spend money and we'll go
at it again and we'll try a different mix of guys.
But in the meantime, hey, we really jumped up our
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prospect pipeline and maybe you have guys that are gonna
be big time contributors to the team in the next
couple of years. So yeah, that's the thing. He doesn't
care about spending money. He doesn't care. Okay, I what
did you say? I look at that money as being
already all spent, so I don't really care. I want
prospects back. I want to build a big minor league
farm system, he said. I want to build the Mets
to be like the Dodgers, where you can sign players
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in free agency and we have a big pipeline. Well
it's a nice model to endulate, no question about. And
all the guys the Mets Scott all jump into the
top fifteen prospects.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, that's right, that's okod that's great, but just means you,
I mean, you still have some work to do. He
needs to throw some money down on the farm, which
is one of the changes that keep being proposed in
Major League Baseball. Of you do have a couple of
teams that can spend whatever the hell they want at
the major league level, but also funnel that back into
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scouting and technology and everything down to the minor leagues,
creating what some would argue is a competitive disadvantage. I say,
you own a baseball team, get over yourself and spend
your money thusly. But yes, you're right that to that
point that the Mets haven't gotten to that part of
filtering that cash down sure, which means guys coming in
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from other proven organizations. Yeah, they're gonna become your top prospect.
But now it'll just say Mets in the next magazine.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Do you guys know how to draft? We're gonna take
a couple of your guys. We're gonna take one of
your guys and make it look like it's one of
our guys because he becomes our guy. Now, yeah, we
tried it for him. He's our guy. Look what we did.
We developed him. Now to that last step, with the
Verlander trade being the big trade of the deadline, let's
get to the two big losers of the trade deadline.
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And normally I don't like to oh the big winners,
but when something stands out, especially two of the most
popular teams EEPN, the two most popular teams in Major
League Baseball, Yeah, because the first biggest loser are the Dodgers.
The Dodgers this season has gone. I don't want to
say how they expected, but it's gone how they have hoped.
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They went from being where one hundred and ten win team,
We're spending a lot of money and look where it
got isn't even make it to the NLCS. We had
an eighty seven and eighty nine win teams make it
there last year, So what's our philosophy now? Not a
lot of guys who want to spend on So we're
going to bring up the kids, let them play. We
feel like we have a good enough team to compete
and to win the division, and at the deadline, if
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we need to, we'll make moves and go get players.
And it went. The Dodgers have overachieved. The top of
their lineup has been really good. Despite the fact they've
had zero pitching and who knows what you're gonna get
any given night. The Dodger's still first place in the
NL West and it's been a great year. So now
it's okay, we're at the deadline. They made a couple
of nice moves, right, Joe Kelly was a nice move.
Lance Lynn, who was starting tonight, is a nice move.
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I'm at Rosario is a nice move. But they absolutely
needed at least one more starting pitcher. They had to,
and that's how that why the trade for EDWARDO Rodriguez
is a huge epic fail. Now forget about the fact
that well they were in on Verlander and they lost
out to him. Hey, they tried to go get him.
He had the Dodgers on his no trade list, so
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the next best starter that they could get, because look,
the Padres aren't trading on Blake Snell, right. They failed.
So now you're going into the playoffs with It's not terrible,
but now your strategy is hope. We hope that Julio
Urias becomes Urius again. We hope that maybe walking Yeah,
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we hope that Marker Bueller can come back at some point.
We hope that a guy like Bobby Miller gets it
in the next two months and turns into a pretty
good picture. Because right now, who you're trotting out there
in the playoffs, you are gonna be the underdog in
every single series. You don't know when Clayton Kershaw is
gonna be back, how he's gonna be when he does
get back. You had so many questions at starting pitching,
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and you didn't even make another move for another big
innings eater. I feel like if you couldn't get a
big pig, you couldn't get Verlander or Rodriguez, who said no,
then you had to go get another couple of guys
like lance Lynn that are gonna come and they're gonna
eat innings and there'll be guys. We can trot out
there not have to worry about bullpen games in the playoffs.
Big fail for the Dodgers. They were a big loser
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of the deadline.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I look at it as you have your opportunities. Look,
you love your prospects and you love your young arms.
And we certainly have watched that with the Dodgers for years.
When they trade someone, that means they know, right, We've
watched this organization for a long time because they they're
very uh you know, very guarded with some of those
prospects that get named in trade deadline activity.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I mean Miller being one of them.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Was he going to be part of a package to
bring in one of these bigger arms with Rodriguez, you
just have the unfortunate circumstance whereby dude didn't. It was
geographically undesirable to come out to the West Coast. That
was that was the report, right. He wanted to be
by his family, wanted to stay where he was because
of that. I can't fault to that for that. If
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you if you're able to execute and he goes you
like the you know the NFLPA, you got the franchise
tag in and now you hate the franchise tag when
you get it. Wait, it's not a good thing, all right,
all right, If a guy's able to negotiate a no
trade clause, either you're really gonna have to incentivize him
to wave it or sell him a tall tale like
I guess the Mets would for their two guys, But
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for Rodriguez it didn't sell, and so now you have
to pivot. The problem is, by time you're at this
point in the negotiations and trying to make this happen,
what's left on the board that you can go get
reasonably to bring in? All Right, we talk about Dylan Cees.
Wouldn't you just go the extra prospect or player if
you thought he was your guy? If you're buying in
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And this is where the Dodgers get caught in a
little bit of we've got a long term plan versus
we've got two months to go make a run towards
a World Series.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
They keep getting too much hope that because next year
is not guaranteed. I mean, I get that you've been
lulled into and you're used to a sense of the
last decade where we're going to be in the playoffs
every year. We're gonna do all. I get it, But
at some point the run ends. But that's an team. Hey,
at some point the run ends.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
But that's the point in all of this, right, whenever
you have an opportunity to go and win this year,
whatever sport it is, I don't care about draft picks prospects. Okay,
be judicious about it. But again, if they were that
good and near ready, it'd probably be up on your squad.
You'd probably find a space for other than the nonsensical
(08:24):
service time issues that you run into. But legitimately, and
I know with the history of the Dodgers, because you've
had so many guys come up into the farm system
and then you talk about going into free agencies and
trade to what you've been able to build for all
these years. I mean, Kershaw's not getting any younger, right,
MOOKI bets giving you a huge run. He and Freeman
(08:45):
always guys, you're healthy, you've got the division, go push
to get another title, because age gets you, injuries get you.
How many of these teams get through unscathed? Right, You're
just hoping that you can can ride it to the
ride the rails down into October and and just to
(09:06):
get there Oh no. I mean, look, if the Dodgers
don't win it, it's a failure.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's that's where we're at with this organization. Every year
it's another year of Okay, the regular season was fine,
but what are we doing in October? And so with
so many questions about the health of players. Bobby Miller's
a guy you talk about like does he have any
innings left?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Like where where's he at?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Like he's been up and down through the year, but
at some point, knowing the way the organization operates, they're
gonna shut him down.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
What do you got, Frostburg? How long have you been
watching baseball? Jason? A long time? Really long time? Sure
doesn't show. Really we got the Mets? Is the big winners? Yeah,
trade deadline the Mets because they moved they they were
able to move on, they were able to move on
from their big time, overly salary pictures. Now not going
to compete till twenty twenty six. You're officially running. The
(09:59):
Dodgers are not, which is why the Dodgers stayed put
you today. You didn't because they're all in on them.
You were told the season by a guy you anything,
the big winners, they're in first place. They're not the
big one, and the Mets are in last. Okay, just
wait what I thought he was going to say. And
the Mets were not in the last place. The Nationals
are in last. The big winner was Jason has them
as the big winners today. Trade deadline Day. Even keep
(10:20):
people on your roster. They want to get traded so badly.
You guys can't keep that. You can't even get anybody
that wants to come to your roster. No, I'd rather
stay in Detroit than go to the Dodgers. Think about that.
I'd rather stay in Detroit. First of all, that's an
erroneous story. They might want to be hanging outside on
the East Coast where his family is. The Dodgers don't
play on the East Coast. Want to come to the Dodgers,
doesn't matter, Dodgers played on the East Coast. Doesn't want
(10:42):
to come, didn't want to come to the Dodgers. Didn't
want to come, said no, sorry, I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Want to go.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Wait, how did that work out for trade Turner? I'd
rather I'd rather work out for rather stay here in
Detroit and was not working out for lose?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Did his check clear and lose he left his defense
at Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Guy already had millions. When when it when it gets
to the playoffs and you come in and I'm hey, Frostburg,
what's going on? These guys were throwing out here?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Man, we got nobody to pitch.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
We're getting o'time.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
We got Phil.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Bickford back from the Mets today.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
You know, we're not even gonna get out and you just.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
One last seem to worry about the Mets and the running.
They're out way, you guys are out. You're not a
competitive till thirty twenty six to stop six oh man winners,
my ass, Big Dodgers needed to get somebody didn't get somebody?
How many games over first didn't? Are they? Okay, what
do the I'm sorry the Dodgers. Do they measure themselves
(11:33):
by games over first place or getting to the World
Series and winning? Yeah, we'll get to the World Series, Okay,
whether they win it or not. Okay, sure with that pitching. Sure,
but to win the next ten when they get o
time are yeah, you're gonna be You're gonna be like, uh,
You're gonna be like Dennis Haysburt in Major League like
like burning all this incense to make sure that Buehler
comes back and and Kershaw comes back like healthy.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Why are you downplaying other you know, different religious or
spiritual beliefs.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Why are you downplay Why is Joe boo and everybody's.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Hey if you get Fosters some level of camaraderie. And
I don't know, man, I don't I don't understand the
other realm. I have a hard time navigating this one
out of day to day. But MODI maybe win one
or win ten in a row with Otani.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I'll take b okay because because you know Tani is
definitely coming all right, you know Dodgers would have done
something he's definitely got Okay, Okay, well they did. They
tried to get a guy that didn't want to go there, dude,
they got rid of Noah Syindergarten. Well you know they
wanted getting a statue. They okay, they did draft. Okay,
the pre the pre trade deadlines, the Dodgers were good.
(12:43):
But the dead the Dodgers lost. That was rid of Syndergarden.
Did I think you're underplaying this? Yeah? But dude, look
I was the guy calling for the statue.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You have to do.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
But dude, Syindergart last name and an executive of the year.
Five and a third shutout innings for the Guardians last
night the Dodgers. He got a hair he got a haircut,
and he was ready to pick. You screwed them up.
Many cooks in the kitchen. You screwed him up. Can winner.
Five and a third, five and a third shut out
of the Astros. Uh so he's back. There's one of you.
(13:14):
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Jason and Mike Fox.
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(14:19):
listen to met Listen to lose every game. The Mets
are winning five to four in the eighth inning. They
gave up the lead. They were winning six to four. Uh,
and they gave up the lead. It doesn't matter. It
doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
You got all excited and all trade deadline winner. Sure,
but the big thing is the more the Mets lose,
the more stuff Mets gear is marked down on the internet.
I could get the Mets All Star hat right now
for twenty two bucks. The big the biggest question to all. Yeah,
I'd burn the twenty two dollars. I'd buy another sandwich.
But the the idea, you know, watching your guy Frank Katank.
(14:52):
We got to see both sides of him because he's
over at the National Sports Collectors Convention this this weekend.
So meeting up with uh Dan Marie. You know, and
of course Pete Webber doing the legendary screaming. I sent
you guys the videos, so huh, you know he's kind
of turning into you, yeah vice versus of you guys
that riding the lightning in your emotions and love and
(15:13):
hate of this team.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I got a fun to watch. I've looked at the
Mets from both sides. That's good. So uh yeah, listen,
We're got Joni Mitchellin's But look, Isaac Longcron's going to
give you the update in a few minutes about how
the Mets are going to wind up blowing this game
like three times against the Royals. But uh, the US
women's national team last night, both you and I stayed
up late to watch that game, and it was not good.
(15:39):
After the game ended a very uninspired zero zero tie
with Portugal where they were one post away from going
home clean. Look the entire Fox crew, it was like
one big episode of Undisputed right Rob Stone, Carly Lloyd,
Alexi Lawless. It's like they were waiting to unload on
(16:01):
the women's national team for such an uninspired effort. Here's
Carly Lloyd, former US women's national star who retired in
twenty twenty one, who had this and more to say
about the United States women's national team tying last night,
not being the team that she thought they could be,
(16:21):
not being the team that we thought they could be,
and instead just a night where they were lucky to
move on. There was questions about why is the United States?
Why are the women, why are they dancing? Why are
they signing autographs? They're lucky to be moving on. They
almost went home. It was one big bat. I'll tell you, Mike,
it was. It was like a feeding frenzy, Like you
(16:41):
could tell they can't wait to just tear into the
women's national team after this was over. I mean it
was like my television was bloody watching them talk after
the game was over.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Well, but even during the broadcast, it was starting to
get to that point, you know, the all right, where's
the burst?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Where's that surge?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Right?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
A couple of times Morgan would get the ball ahead. Uh,
And decision making is different. Look, the timing's different. And
that goes into like the deeper analysis of at least
from my untrained eye, uh, you know, on the on
the soccer world. Uh, and just having watched it and
talked to as many people as I could. We've got
friends that have joined the show through these years, but
(17:21):
there there's just a there's no continuity, and the age
is showing, and the and the lack of separation and
all of those things come through. And in the broadcast
there were a lot of pieces of kind of dead
time because they didn't want to go all in against
what the women were putting up right, the the number
of all right, we've moved it into the into the
(17:43):
zone and now there's no movement, no flow, no connectivity.
All right, ball's coming back the other way.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Here's Carly Lloyd part of her dramatic assessment of the
United States after the game. Thanks.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I have never witnessed and just seeing these for the
first time right now on the desk, I've never witnessed.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Something like that.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
There's a difference between being respectful of the fans and
saying hello to your family, but to be dancing, to
be smiling, I mean, the player of the match was
that post. You were lucky to not be going home
right now?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Okay, she's not wrong.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well it's like de Sean Payton of last week. Yeah,
you're not wrong, she's not wrong, but it was.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
But everything you heard and I agree with all the
with a lot of the criticism, but there's something that
everybody's overlooking. We're going to get to it. I mean,
everybody is overlooking this, but you could tell that they
were just waiting for this. And vats of Adanovsky today
said the criticism was insane. I can't believe that that
Carly would say that. I'll tell you exactly why this
(18:46):
happened and why the United States was dancing and signing
autographs after. When you're playing a tournament halfway around the world,
you're in a bubble, right You're in a bubble. You're
not if the United States was playing a game, it
was here in the United States. They're playing in Chicago
and they tied. Are they signing autographs with fans? Are
they dancing after? Maybe not, because they understand the fire
(19:09):
and brimstone that's coming for them, because this is the
overwhelming favorite and they're not playing well. But you're playing
halfway around the world and you're still right now, insulated
from all of that criticism. You're moving on. Let's not forget.
The United States moved on, and you know that as
long as you tie and had to draw, you move on.
So that's all it was. You're moving on, and that's what.
(19:30):
So they're a little bit, they're a little bit and
nearer to that and immune to that. The same thing
is true for Carly Lloyd and Alexi Lawalas and Robstone,
who are all players who played the sport for a
long time, fans of the sport. They're sitting at their
desk the entire game watching and they're watching with a
(19:51):
critical lie and you can tell every time, and there
was a lot of bad plays made by the United States.
They're mad and Alexi, what is that play by Alex Morgan,
which I said about one hundred times last night, going
what the hell is going on here? What is that
play by Alex Morgan? What is that player? What are
they doing here? So they're cooking on that all the
way through the game. So when they come on the
air after it is a bloodbath. It is an absolute
(20:14):
So I understand because they're in their own bubble, the
four of them on the set, watching what's going on, right,
So that so I understand both reaction. I understand why
the United States was signing autographs and town. Look, we
are moving on. We're gonna get criticized, but we're not
we're not hearing that right now, and why they set
it on the set for Fox. Now, the couple of
big things that we're not talking about are and you
(20:36):
can you can go all the way through on so
many things with this team, right you can go the
big picture of Carly Lloyd who said that they they
look like they're entitled, they look like they are arrogant.
I don't see any cohesion. I don't see any any
anything more than individuals trying to play. They haven't had
time together. All of these things she's right about. These
(20:57):
are all big picture things she's right about, and and
I don't doubt any of that now. Carly Lloyd, of
course didn't have the greatest ending with the women's national
team for the end of her career. She thought I
should be playing more. She was coming off the bench.
She showed that I can keep scoring goals. The two
biggest things to take away from this with the United States,
and yes, all of those things are true for curlic.
(21:18):
Number one is not every team is great, okay, just
because they are viewed as the best team in the world,
and we thought they were the best team and they've
won the last two World Cups. Doesn't mean this edition
of the United States team is great. No, they have problems,
just like all the other countries have problems. This is
just because you play on the US women's national team
and you keep hearing Trinity Robin, Trinity Robbin, Trinity Robbin
(21:41):
is not a great player yet. Okay, Triny Robbin is
not a great player. Alex Morgan is not the player
she was four years ago. Joe, by the way, what
did I tell you it was? The biggest thing is
Alex Morgan is still an elite scorer. As you can see,
she is not Megan Rapino. How many minutes is she
going to play? Just because we think they are doesn't
mean they're a great team. And now after you've seen
this the first there's three games they've played, you can
(22:01):
tell they're a good team. Other teams are good too.
They can win, they can lose. That's just the reality
of this. This is not they don't have They're not
They're not wall to wall superstars. Rose Level is a
pretty good player, but is she a big time superstar?
She's not. Right, she's a good player, but she's not
and she's not available. As gritty as gritty as Lindsay
(22:23):
Horan is and she's my favorite player on the US
women's national team. Lindsay Horan so far in this tournament
has been really good, but she's also been a little
bit invisible at times. And she got subbed out last night,
which is really surprised hell out of me in the
final ten minutes, like, okay, so something's going on there.
So they're not a great team just because you see
them put the uniform on. Every team is different, and
(22:44):
this is just a down cycle for the United States
women's national team. They're waiting for the next level of
superstars to come. There's no Rappino on this team. Sophia
Smith is not Alex Morgan. I mean, you're talking about
some of the greatest soccer players in the history of
the world that have won in the last couple of Cups,
and as well, they're they're good because we're the United States. No,
that's the that's the big thing that people don't get.
(23:06):
But on the field, the thing that gets it, and
you and I talked about this before before the show tonight,
is you've seen a lot of criticism. Some of this
criticism is a little bits a little bit Miss Misuh
misappropriated because you've heard if you watch the games, Hey,
the United States, they feel like they're playing slow. A
lot of their moves are very predictable, and that's really
(23:27):
not the case watching this team. It's they are slow.
They're slow because the last time we saw this team
play was in not in the World Cup, but it
was in the Olympics when they looked slow and they
look like we're getting run up and down the field.
And what have you seen the first three games? Have
our forwards run free for shots on goal? No, the
(23:47):
defense has always had a chance to get back and
get in their passing lanes. Are you seeing midfielders run
free as Roosevelt getting downfield unimpeded with a chance to
set up a play. No, defenders are on her and
and and they're fouling and they're stopping the United States
because the United States team speed is slow. So you
have that big case of Okay, the team is not
great and they go. But the number one thing, and
(24:08):
that's a roster problem, is that it's hard to win
when you don't have team speed. You watch all the
other teams we play, they're all making plays. The defense
is getting back big right, you're seeing the other teams
blow by some of our players, and that's a huge
thing that is not fixable, right, that is not fixable
when you have no team speed. And when watching the
game last night, I'm watching breakouts going, well, here's there's
(24:32):
instead of a big through ball here or here's a
big volley. No, this is gonna be broken up and
it's not going to get through because they're just not
fast enough. It's not about all they're playing, so no,
they're just their team speed is not good.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
We're gonna have to pull back and create an opportunity.
And while they did outshoot Portugal, what was it seventeen
to five or something was the final final tally and
then you have the post shot. Is really the thing
that leaves the big on the game is possession was
more Portugal. Lavelle now with the yellow cards, she's going
(25:07):
to miss the next match, so that's a big deal.
You talk about Rapino and Alex Morgan, Well, Morgan had chances,
she gets caught or she's trying, and we watch it
at all levels. You watch it with your daughter's team,
and this is the she's reverting to some of the
stuff early on. It's like take your shot, right, you've
(25:28):
got the opening, you found the daylight. Take your shot.
Dribbling back into traffic, into the box. You're not getting
the ball through three defenders, just not working. And so
what do we see? The ball bounce and redirected the
other way. Time and again, Rapino a couple of chances coming.
Once she subbed into the game. You got a little
(25:50):
bit of spark of energy, but that's short, short lived.
And you talk Rodman, you talk Smith, you talk a
lot of young players. It's exciting for what may become.
But remember, you know the larger picture does play here,
is that the rest of the world's caught up conditioning wise,
team wise, strategy wise. For the US, you've got the NWSL.
(26:11):
It's still playing now right, our guy Isaac Lonkron working
for Angel City.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
But you know what did you have?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
All Right? We met for a flight and we got
to hang out and drink lattes before we got on
a flight to New Zealand, and then what three or
four days before you're into match activity, Like that's not
months of training, that's not Hey, let's integrate all these
new faces and new bodies and figure out where there's flow,
where there can be some operational efficiencies gained, and all
(26:40):
of that's showing on the pitch.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Right.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
How many times have you seen all right, there's a
bit of a breakout and then you look around it's like,
all right, I'm going one on four. We've got to
pull it back because I don't have anybody running with me,
and so it's just a different animal and a different game.
And I think it's great that the rest of the
world's caught up. It's great for the game, for the US.
It gets to the criticism and to address your original
(27:04):
point though of the you're insulated. Hey, you still got through, right,
succeed and proceed. It's not the result you wanted. And
who loves a nil nil tie? Nobody. Players don't love it,
Fans hate it. The broadcasters didn't get to do a
big gold call, so they're salty too. But you got through,
and look, the criticism is gonna come, and hopefully you're
(27:28):
mature enough and you've been in the game and spotlight
long enough that that should just wash off you. It
won't because once they hear it, just like coach did,
they're going to have their response to it. But people
are expecting dominance and that's you get used to it.
You get accustomed to it.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
You expect the Dodgers to be in the playoffs every
year for a long time. You expect the Lakers to
be good. Then you had a decade where everybody lost
their minds, Like, I'm sorry. For a decade they were
like everybody else, right, I'm used to the Hey, every
once in a while my team has shot, I get excited.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I don't get spoiled by it. Man, I don't get
spoiled by dominance. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
What do you got, Frostburg. There's a big silver lining
in all of this with the women's national team. They're
not the Mets. They even play later in the morning
where nobody's gonna watch for the next yea, yeah, next
two games are really smack dab in the middle of
the night. It's like.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
They've got there. So they've got the three o'clock really difficult.
It's really difficult night, you know. But here's the thing
is that I don't know how much the rest of
the world is caught up, because when you hear the
rest of the world cut up, you think, like globally,
here's all these teams, but.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
It takes two or five. Certain teams have gotten certain
teams have gotten have gotten better, surely, you know, look
Sweden's playing, Look, Japan is running.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
At their first game in this in this tournament was
a train wreck. I watched that live. Looking around on
this is supposed to be the number three team in
the world. Like for if you're a US fan, you
didn't feel so bad watching that one. And but now
here they are and they've gotten right.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
But this is this is not so much that as
it is. This is a US team that has come
back to the pack a little bit because they're not
as talented. Sure now it's not a team that can't
win the World Cup, because they can, but they're a
team that can easily get beat by anybody left in
the knockout round. You just had you just had a
a you just had a play in where you're playing
the lowest seeded team and you only beat them three nothing,
(29:23):
and you got two draws. One was against a good team,
one was against a team it's not even the top
twenty team in the world. And they looked, they looked faster,
they looked fresher, they looked everything. It was really difficult. Well,
they also savored the opportunity to knock the US out
right right, but don't discount but they had their chance
to win. See the one thing they did, honestly, they
went for the win way too late, like they like
(29:45):
Portugal needed to be and that's the one thing that
they needed. Once they got to like the seventieth minute,
they needed to say, all right, we gotta go because
we can win and we can move But they didn't
really do that until like the eighty fifth minute. You
saw at that point it was oh wow. And the
United States not making the substitutions till late, they had
a lot of tired legs, Like if they had started
(30:07):
going because you gotta go, because you know, hey, we
can move on here, but we gotta win the game.
Once you get to that seventieth minute, Okay, we've played
twenty five minutes here in the second half, it still
zips it. We need some time to get going to
get that goal. So thankfully for the United States, they
really started to press way too late. They only had
about ten or twelve minutes a game time to prey.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
You know what's great, as we're sitting here in the
tirerac dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's now starting again,
so I can curse for the next two.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Hours, just like I did in the middle of the
night last night.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
We'd finished up a soccer tournament down in delmar my
kids sitting there. She's got a giant ice pack on
her head, stitches. Thank you for taking care of everything
yesterday as I attended to her. But we're sitting there
and we're muttering under our breaths for two hours.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
What do we watch? Yeah, it was Look, it's just
not as good a team. And they're slow that and
you kick the mast slow you can't, no, no, no,
well yeah, the metsro slow, Metro slow. They don't steal basis.
Neither do the Dodgers, by the way, and what they
seem to find a way around it. We weren't talking hit.
They hit the doubles to the gap. I think Freddy
Freeman leads a team in stolen bases, if I'm not mistake.
(31:14):
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Low and Cron. You can skip over the results and
how the Mets loss, just give the score. I don't
think we need to know exactly what happened.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Just because I can skip over the details doesn't necessarily
mean I will skip over the details. I thought it
would be fair to warn you. But we'll try and
cleanse the palette retroactively or preemptively with the news that
tonight from ber Valdez of the Houston Astros pitch to
no hitter against the Cleveland Guardians at Minute Made Park.
(32:03):
Here's how the final out sounded on KMBE.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Here's the o t the Gallagher broken fat soft liner,
Peyna catches it and.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
A no hitter. Robert Valdez first one of greatams. Baldonado
and the rest of his teammates.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Pileon Probert Valdez bote the sixteenth no hitter.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
And here'ston Astro's history.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Astro's winning two or nothing. Valdez seven strikeouts he faced
the minimum twenty seven batters. He allowed just to walk
in the fifth inning that was raised on a double play.
At Wrigley, the Cubs tied a franchise record with seven
home runs in a twenty to nine win over Cincinnati
Dansby Swanson two home runs and five RBI. You know what, Jason,
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On second thought, maybe you're right. I think that I
won't tell you the details of how the Cakansas City
Royals and New York Mets were tied at six at
Kansas City. In the bottom of the tenth inning, the
Royals had the bases loaded, Josh Walker on the mound
for the Mets. I'm going to accede to your wishes.
(33:14):
I'm not going to tell you how and why and
what happened next. I'm going to let the Royals broadcasters
do it.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
On CASEYSB Francisco Albarez calls time.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
And goes down to the mound for a mound busy.
Now the umpires are conferring.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Oh, they called the puck.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
They called a puck.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
The game is over.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
They called a book on Josh Walker before he even
threw a pitch.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
The Royals win at seven to six.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
On a book of all.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
Things the Mets contended it was because of an issue
with the PitchCom communication device between Walker and catcher Francisco Alvarez.
In fact, moments before Walker stepped off the rubber, Alvarez
was seen reaching his left hand up to his left ear,
mimicking and making the sign for there being a problem
with the pitchclm device. But it's in the books. For
(34:12):
a victory for Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
The Mets lose on a delayed walk off BOK.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Yes, that's how they did it. Yes, technically the case.
I'm just gonna let that sink in for a moment. Meanwhile,
in Colorado, the Padres have an eight to five lead
over the Rockies in the bottom of the ninth, thenning
two home runs for Juan Soto of San Diego Key
k Hernandez a basis clearing double moments ago for the Dodgers,
(34:38):
who have a four to nothing lead over the A's
in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Back to you, the Mets, suck.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
I did not push that button.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
That was not made. He didn't even throw a pitch.
Josh Walker came in, didn't even throw a pitch. That
is so totally Mets. That is just so tough, but on.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
The day that you won, not at air quotes the
trade deadline. You lose spectacularly. Look like I always tell you,
if you're gonna go down and lose a game, lose spectacularly.
Foil And this is just the next bullet point on
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a season full of futility.
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So the big losers of the trade deadline the Dodgers losers,
and the Yankees. The Yankee the Yankees. And this is
what's fascinating about the Yankees. The Yankees make a move,
they get a picture, but it's not nearly what they need,
because this is a team that still is above five
hundred in a very difficult division, that needs things right. Yeah,
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they need a lot. You could have thrown a dart
and gotten something that you need to know. We need
we need a bat, we need a reliever, or we
need a starting picture. And the Yankees, once again at
the deadline, are extremely quiet. And the reason behind this,
I can tell you, and this is why the Yankees
are big losers, is because Brian Cashman's been the GM
there for a long time, has gotten to the point
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over the years where he has driven to the middle
of the road where he is afraid to trade any
prospect anywhere for anything. I vividly remember him a couple
of years ago when they could have made a trade
and they could have gotten a big star for one
of their prospects, and prospects involved, and they said, hey,
what did you think about that deal? And he's very
(38:36):
candidly said, come on, man, I gotta walk around in
this town. I can't make a trade like that. He's
got to the point where he's afraid to trade any
prospect because if they go someplace and win, he knows
that he's never going to hear the end of it.
It's all his fault. And what happened to all these
guys who were untradeable, Miguel Andrew harr and Gary Sanchez,
all these guys. Oh man, you could have traded all
(38:58):
of them many times over and you could have gotten
better players. But it's like the Yankees. They're not even
the Yankees anymore. The Mets and the Dodgers are more
of the Yankees than the Yankees are. They have decided
to be a team where we'll spend when we want
to and and and we'll bring in some some some
fill the uh, you know, we'll fill some spots for
a little while and then we'll work on a long
(39:19):
term solution. But this Yankee team, what maybe the Yankees was, Hey,
when we need something, we're not afraid to go out
and get it. And maybe they thought this is not
our year, but you're still you're still right there at
the thick of the wildcard chase. I don't know why
you wouldn't try to go for it a little bit,
but it's it's Brian Casher. They've decided we're just not
gonna trade our prospects because we're so worried that they're
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gonna go someplace be stars. And why would you trade
that guy? Why don't you? And it's it's it's in
his head. It's in his head because there's no reason
why the Yankees with a farm system of players that
any team would love to have because they're Yankee players.
You gotta know, some of them aren't gonna be stars.
You can trade them away, but other teams value them
because they're Yankees prospects. You could make moves and you
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could get big players to come in that could have
helped the team over the past few years. But it's
not like that anymore.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Well, but you know, big Stein can't walk back through
that door right to where you know, Gotham has to
be first. Like cash Ben's just been in a nice
comfortable space, even when it's been uncomfortable, Like we were
talking about him about whether he should have been fired
the last couple of years with some of the moves
they didn't make, and well he keeps getting the next year.
(40:27):
Added on to your point the hey, I've got to
walk around here because people love their prospects.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
They always have.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
But look at the production volpi Jason Dominguez down in
the minor leagues. He's only nineteen, but the expectation was
he was going to be fast tracked, and this kid'll
be mashing. It'll be like Griffy coming up with Seattle
all those years ago and some of the stuff we've seen.
So you make a couple of moves, you get Spencer
Howard for cash considerations and Middleton from the White Sox.
(40:54):
I love some of the quotes from the Yankee players though,
you had Aaron Aaron j just kind of talking about, well,
whatever gets its close to being a better team winning,
that's why I'm here. Okay, Hey, gosh Ioka, I don't
have a lot of emotions that would be my mood
even if we got Otani, Like, I just love that.
It's like, ah, what are you gonna do? We gotta
(41:15):
keep going out and playing. But for the Yankees, yeah,
they're playing like they're a middle tier, middle of the
road kind of squad. No longer big bad Yankees by
and and bringing all these big guys like Boomer and
everything like they did back in the day.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
They've got they've gotten afraid. They've gotten afraid to make
trades when they never were and now it's not.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Spending all the money on Judge and Stanton probably has
left them a little gunshy with the games they've missed.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
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