October 24, 2023 • 35 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react live to the Texas Rangers eliminating the Houston Astros of Game 7 of the ALCS. The guys demonstrate how any team can be a hated team. Plus, get ready for an onslaught of "Brock Purdy is overrated" takes!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
You think the forty nine Ers would stop single covering
Jordan Addison, But no, well, or if you're gonna run
into him, run through him? Uh? First down, Vikings a
big third down pass for some reason. Jordan Addison, who
is working the Niners tonight, they continue to single cover him,
catches a big pass for a first down, and now
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San Francisco using their final time out of the night,
two thirteen left to go in the fourth quarter. It
is a twenty two to seventeen lead for the Vikings.
They have the ball in San Francisco territory, one first
down away from ending this game and certainly putting a
dent in The forty nine Ers rode to the Super
Bowl certainly been better than justin Jefferson ever was against
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the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, Addison's just been ridiculous. He's only played one game
the forty nine ers. He had four catches for eighty
three yards. But Addison absolutely ridiculous tonight, Captain Kirk, he
had the early interception, but they get the ball back
on a fumble and they cash in and they've played
well over the course of the night. Good protection. Bosa
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just waving his hands and Cousin's face as he runs by.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
But as you.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Are lamenting what's happened in your fantasy league based on.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I just lost on that pass, the last pass they'll
throw in the game. Jordan Aison catch it and I lost.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Like I said, if you're gonna run into him, I
hate run through him. I hate instead of bouncing off
and letting him run him catch the pass because he's
still got to run his full route. Like even you
didn't even interfere with him enough to where you knocked
him off his spaces. That's the worst of it. But yeah,
Captain Kirk, on a Monday night, so to eight, all
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where all the huge money had been laying this weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I mean, really, at some point you got to understand Okay,
Jordan Adison is killing us. I get Howkinson's having a
big day in the middle of the field, but Addison
is killing us, and yet Nope, we're going to continue
to single cover him. Can you make a Gray's anatomy
joke with Addison? That'd be great. N I can make
a moonlighting Ada David Addison joke. Nicely done, clearly Sybil.
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The Vikings looking to shepherd their way to a win
here tonight. That's pretty good, Jay TJ. There you go.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Addison seven catches one twenty four two scores on ten targets,
including that Asonine sixty yard touchdown reception that should have
been intercepted cornerback that we've highlighted here in the studio
all day going. He could get called for a penalty
on every play and then they give him.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
A hate fantasy. I hate fantasy. So we'll have more
in this game.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Again.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
We're getting down to the two minute warning and one
first down away. The Vikings are from winning this game. However,
things getting a little chippy and even more interesting in
Houston in the bottom of the eighth inning. Now Brian Abreu,
who had his suspension pushed to next year. Remember he
got two game suspension the hit by pitch snafu earlier
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in the series with the Rangers, and Adolas Garcia got
his suspension pushed to next year. He was allowed to
pitch tonight in Game seven. He comes in and he
hits a guy. Okay, Rangers don't retaliate because for there
thinking okay, we're going to the World Series. We don't
want to do this. Eraldus Chapman has come in to
pitch with the Rangers and he just hit McCormick on
a fastball that was way behind. McCormick did kind of
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back into it a little bit and put his foot out,
put his leg out, but he gets hits. Now, you've
had two hit by pitches in the last inning and
a half and we still have the ninth inning to go.
Rangers up eleven three over the Astros and they are
four outs away from the World Series. Yeah, I just
remember to break you coming into the game.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And look before when it was announced earlier today that
he would be available for this game, Like, so what's
the point? So just drop the two games suspension? Does
it matter in April? Ooh, they're gonna miss out. I
don't even know what their schedule looks like, whoever that
first series is.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
H he's not gonna be available.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Oh no, we got one hundred and sixty more games.
So he comes in and obviously they're down at that point.
He plunks a hitter and then promptly gives up a
two run homer. So I think, to some degree, you go, ah, yeah,
for you, the old you know, baldon't liar.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
We want to keep you in the game. We want
to keep you in the game because you're not that good.
But they they decide to move the suspension to next year.
So he walks in and on his fourth pitch he
hits Garverer in the ribs, like and it's a good
ninety five mile an hour heater. Then just ride straight
in and like there's no hey, kind of no. He
plumped the guy in the ribs, and nobody said a word.
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Everybody just I play on.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And obviously we're in the studio doing the show, so
we couldn't hear what was being said on the broadcast,
but nobody got up on the top of the steps.
Boachi came out just made sure it was okay. Everybody's good.
Everybody goes back, and the whole time I'm looking at you.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
We were closing out part of last hour, and I'm like,
my hands are raised, like what are we doing? What
are we doing? Major League Baseball?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You know?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
And the thing is, and I'll tell you this, I
can I can find a way. I guarantee you I
can find in less than a minute, I can find
a way to make you hate every team left in
the playoffs, every all four Baseball that you might have
no opinions of whatsoever. I can in less than a minute,
I can find a way to make you hate all
of that. Well, you know what, I could do that
in one very quick thing. Today's the anniversary of Canerico
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and Pittsednik, the two thousand and five World Series. Joe
Carter and Joe Carter. Yeah, yeah, team's not playing. I
hate everybody, you know what I mean? But I mean
you walk in, Yeah, do you care who wins the
World Series? Like? No, my team's not it. No, I'll
make you. I can make you hate all of these teams. Everybody.
To me a team, give me a team, give me
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as goes is too easy because all I got to
do is talk about the cheating scandal. So that that's
too easy. Everybody hates the ass. Okay, good, give me
another team. Let's go straight to the Diamondbacks. You know, diamondback.
Diamondbacks are easy to hate because the Diamondbacks are frauds.
And here's the thing. They know they're frauds. They know
they stink. They're a seventy five win team that's on
the cusp of going to the World Series.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
You got hot and you played well when it matters, frauds.
I think they put that out on video here at
Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
They are frauds, right. They know they stink, and they
walk around going, no, we're pretty good. No, we all
know you stink, and they know, yes, we know we stink.
And then you have to watch the fans, who every
single fan that goes to the game is a fan
that's hey, I'm wearing my Diamondbacks gear because you just
bought it in the store coming in. Why because I
could splurge, because I was given the tickets. Because nobody
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wants to go to these games. They're fifteen dollars apiece.
I can sit behind home plate for free because another
guy had a poker night and he decided I'd want
to go to that instead of going to a Diamondbacks game,
and oh, look we have the best pool. Look at
the pool we have. People have bigger pools in their backyard. Oh,
hit a home run into the pool. Hit it into
the pool. No, you got. And you're kidding me with
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all this because you live in Phoenix where it's one
hundred and twenty five degrees every single day, and you
come out.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Look, no, it's easy to hate the Diamondbacks. They're frauds.
They're frauds. They're frauds, and no one wants to go
to the games. They're frauds. Say that direct there. I
make you hate the Diamondbacks. I call people frauds. Roots
to make you for the Phillies. Now and now I
can make you not root, make me, make me hate
the Phillies. All the Phillies are easy to hate.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Are you just gonna say it's always Sonny you hate
all Rob Zachlany.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Every single time you see the Phillies, it's Bryce Harper
on the top of the dugout step with his headband
and he's yelling at somebody. You hate Brice Harper. Again,
somebody gets a base hit and they turn the yell
at the dugout and the dugout yells back at the guy.
Then the guy gets a good lead off of first
base and he's excited, so he yells back at the dugout.
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The dug out yells back at him, and then the
pitcher gets a strike on a batter and he yells
the dugout and they yell back. And I gotta watch
their beards grow longer and longer, and they wear the necklaces. Hey,
we're cool. We got these wood necklaces that are kind
of made of teeth, and we all wear. It's together,
this thing. Oh and oh, by the way, we all
go to each other's games. Like the football team goes
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to the baseball games. The baseball team starts, go to
the football games something, go to the Philadelphia Union games
like it's high school and you go see. Oh, I'll
go see you play. You come see me play. I'll
go see that play. I'll go to that back. Oh yeah,
and it's easy to play in that park. I right now,
me fifty two years old, I would at four seventy
five if I played in that ballpark. It's the best
place to hit in Major League Baseball. And then I
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gotta sit back and watch the ball yell at each other,
and they yelling yeay and look out good we are Yay,
We're so good. Sam made you hate the Phillies. No, no, see,
all I got from that was you hate people with
friends and hair. No, no, no, that's all I got
that entire ran. I didn't growing And no, it's not
extenching of the hair I did. You don't mention Rob
mclaney and his Philadelphia Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
The fact that they go to each other's events and
games and support each other.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, that's a bad thing. That's great. No, it's like
high school here. You going to the volleyball game. Yeah, no,
you're going to the lacrosse game.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
To go to the football game, yeah, oh, let's go
to the basket extended.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Into football and talk about And look, I never blame
a good strategy with this. You know, Jason Kelsey being
on the Today Show with his teammates talking about their
Christmas album coming out. You want to talk about Travis Kelsey.
Everybody's like, oh, he's milking the Taylor Swift thing. No, no, no,
Jason Kelsey's over here riding the gravy train right behind him. Anyway,
So we still need the Range.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
He pH the Rain Rangers. Right, Well, do we do
the Rangers or do we want to wait on the
Rangers because it's still game is still going on. He
already said, you hated the Astros, so you want to
hate the rail I'll wait. We gotta hate them. Everybody
that's left. I'll make you hate the grab the rest.
We'll go through the other teams. This is entertaining. I
want to see your head explort Halloween a week from today,
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Scanners coming live here on Fox Sports Radio. I'm gonna
do a live Instagram feed to watch your head explode.
I'll make you hate the ready to hate the Rangers,
hate the Ranger. Here's right, here you go. You're gonna
say no one Ryan, No, no, no, no, no no, because
the Rangers of the Rangers is like Dallas, like the
Cowboys of Major League Baseball. And every year they think
we're great. We're gonna spend all kinds of money on
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guys and it never goes anywhere and they never win,
and it never We're still gonna spend money on guys
and try to sell to Hey, Texas is great. Oh,
come to Texas. Look at the Rain. We're really good
we're gonna go out and get played. You get players
every year and you stink, and now suddenly, oh no,
we're really good. And now because we were able to
go get a manager that nobody else wanted, who's a
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great manager, but his head is so big. It's so big,
and I can't stop staring at it. And he wins
game seven's all the time and he shows up. Do
the Rangers deserve to have? Bruce Bochi, who was sitting
on the unemployment line, was never gonna work again. Hey,
come do it, because you know, we like to think
we're good, but we're really so desperate. We need all
kinds of relevancy. We don't have good, young, homegrown players
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like everybody else. We gotta go by from everybody. We're
buying players right now. We got money sunk in on
de Gram and Shurser and all we've gotten so far
was two and a half innings from Scherzer tonight. That's
all we've got. But we're so yes, yes, yes, we're
like the big boys. We're just like New York and
Chicago and Los Angeles. No, now you hate the Rangers, there.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
You go, Yeah, but New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, aren't
headed to the World Series. I mean, Bruce Bochi in
his giant head, just a couple outs here and there's
nobody left to watch. I mean, you can get lost
in the color of those seats trying to throw the
ball because there's nobody there.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Because they quit there. You go can't hate the Rangers,
can can? It's pretty easy? No, No, because you tried
to use the argument because Bruce Boji, all the other
teams were too dumb to employ him. It's their fault
for hiring it isn't got lucky just because you had
bought all this cash on all kinds of players and
and three quarters of them never even do anything. But
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we need a manager. I know, let's go get Boach.
I don't know why is he not working? And two
thirds of a meaningful game, just more than either your
team or might you gotta watch sus are sweat and
just sweat profuse. But he's working hard, he's robbing. He
he's America. Other guys sweating their asses off. Now they're
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usually getting an extra FI, but they're working hard. He's
showing other guys work hard and don't visibly sweat like
Max Shurs are. Like we gotta take you out. The
man's got a glad. Probably did you just walk out
of a sauna? Come on, man, And then he's working
so Hardy can't even finish the third inning. He's a
starting pitcher, can't finish a third inning. He gave you
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forty four pitches and that was it. And then you
had Montgomery say, Hey, Montgomery, you're the man. Let's go.
It's easy to hate that. Max Schuzer, No, you're just
mad at Max Scherzer. No, not mad a man entire
rand Max. And with the Phillies, it was terrible because
it was all about friendship and hair. If I gave
you over under, you hate friends and hair. Max Scherzer
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innings pitch in the World Series and I put it
at six, Oh, it would take the under. Oh yeah,
I would take the under. Yeah, no, I would take
the under. I mean, really, he's he's fine. That's why
the Mets traded him. He's on such a downward spiral.
This is Game seventies. He went to a two. Thirsty
went longer than any Dodger did. Game set whoa too soon?
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This is Game seven and look and he's sweating coming
off the mound, like, hey, I'm a reliever that you
put out there. I normally pitch an inning, but I
gave you two and two thirds. What a gutty performance.
I only really go about twelve or fifteen pitches. But
look at me. No, Look he's sweating coming out of
the gout. I'm so tired, I'm so exhausted. I'm sorry,
lance Lynn Maxy maxis or pitches forty four pitches and
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Max you know what, he cutted it out for those
forties About heart of a champion.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I am a tiger baby. I was counted out. We
were counted out. They mocked us. Come on, they're gonna
enjoy the hell out of this. With all of the
back and forth that went on with the GMS and
the astros talking all sorts of blank about winning the
division and all of that, and the final day of
how much they partied. Yeah, we're gonna party our asses
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off tonight.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Take that. I just made you hate all those teams,
he said, all those teams, and.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
They start throwing tooth picks in the direction of Dusty Baker.
Here's here's seven of them.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Look, Dusty, Dusty Baker, is that you know? That's the
tough part. I liked about the Astros, but then I
want to sit here, and if I needed to go
anywhere other than the cheating scandal, I would go. I mean,
come on, really's sitting there, He's eighty years old with
sweat bands and yeah, coming out of the dugout like
I'm gonna do some kind of move on you. Like, yeah,
I got this, like I'm Iron Mike Sharp, and I
got the sweat bands. One of the umpires in the head. Oh,
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it's a foreign object under the sweat bands. And Dusty Baker,
I mean, come on, that's how we go. But I
could do it anything I can get. I could make
you hate any team. It's made you hate all three
of those teams all four of those times.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
And it hates a strong word. But I mean you
you really did wear that one on your sleeve. There's
no question about it. By the way, this would be
zero to four in game sevage for.
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champion and NFL MVP forty nine ers and Brock Perdy.
We will have more on this shock An you hate
him too?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You know?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh no, no, no, but now the whole thing now watch
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Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
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Speaker 3 (16:33):
Dance Party for the Astros losing thy come back and
wait at your fault now and.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
What a comeback by the Astros? Hold oh, because this
asshat was dancing in his studio. Who would have thought
of Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Dance Party would have this
rally ended with an Art Hall home run to give
the Astros the victory and send them onto the World Series.
Let's go through the ninth inning. Danny Heap let it
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off with a base hit. Mark Bailey doubled to the
gap and right to put runners at second and third.
Sazar Sedanio single brings in two, followed by a walking
and hard triple because he was the last guy left,
tripling off the wall to make it a five run game.
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Alan Ashby and Andy Ashby both come up with its
trying to think somebody else named Ashby and I can't
hal Ashby Maybe sure, maybe, No, I think you're just stretching. Okay, okay,
I think you took the bid out back and hit
it now, and don't forget about Jose Cruz with a
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big and Terry Poole came up with a two run
homer to make this a three run game. No, I
now we're really having some fun with Sure yesterday Billy
Hatcher with a home run off of the foul poland
left field just like an A and Rafael Landstoy ending
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the rally with a two run drive to center. Look
at that who knew. It's almost like they knew it
was coming. You're out of control. That's all I can say. Now.
Batting Dicky Thon, he's three for four.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I was really I was gonna go to the Dicky
Thon and reference next that was it was just waiting
to me too brought in. I'm trying to think of
the old seventy nine Astros stratomagic cards coming. That's the
team I'm trying to get myself coming in for defensive purposes.
Bill Doran will play second base and Craig Reynolds will
come in at shortstop.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Can Joe Morgan come back and do the little hitch
with the arm? Too soon? On? Joe Morgan, come on, man,
I wanted to celebrate great? Can't hime on? He could
come out of the left field, him out of the
corn you could. You couldn't go Lance Berkman, you couldn't.
You couldn't go that. He couldn't go Bigio or Bagwell.
You couldn't go Derek Bell. No, he he did operation shutdown.
He ain't coming back and damn Norman home run? Also
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about okay, so at Bijo. I mean some folks just
say he was a stat aggregator. We all know what
what people think about Jeff Bagwell, so we put Jeff
Bagwell off to the wayside there. Uh so all of
these astros players of the seventies and eighties, were they
enough for a late last gasp ninth inning rally. Well,
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we have breaking news coming into our Fox Sports radio newsroom.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Alex Tischer clearly from Fox Sport working on.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
A Spotify account. Because whatever that music was, I don't
know that was still Yeah, that's a good song because
it's still dancing theause now you can actually dance. Smiths.
Go ahead, we have a final in Houston. Steve Desager,
what's going on? Your answer wasn't enough? No back to you.
Thanks gave Texas Range is not the best color guy
in the business for nothing.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Wait, ago money, Texas Rangers are going to the World Series.
They win at Houston in Game seven of the ALCS
eleven to four. The Texas Rangers franchise had not even
been the playoffs until the mid nineties. They never won
a playoff series until twenty ten. Remember they had the
runs to the World Series twenty ten, lost it twenty eleven,
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lost a Game seven to David Frees and the Cardinals. Now,
until this year, they had not won a playoff series
since twenty eleven.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Now they're back in.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
What a turnaround because this was frankly a very bad
team back to back years these last couple of seasons.
Bruce Bochie as manager. They're into the World Series. It
starts on Fox TV Friday night. We don't know the
opponent yet because the NLCS has a Game seven in
Philadelphia tomorrow. Phillies franchise has never played a Game seven.
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Bruce Bochie is now going to the World Series where
he could win his fourth World Series. Fourth. Yeah right,
remember the every other year thing with the Giants in
the teams, you would say, right, the teams, Yeah, we
had the oddsit of the teams, had the three every
other year in the teams. And now again when he
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was just kind of sitting around, the Rangers said come
and manage. And look, we talk about the impact that
a manager has on a team. And sometimes you need
a manager that is fire and brimstone, and you need analytics,
and you need we got to find a new way,
a new approach at the plate. We need all of
these different things and sometimes need a guy that just knows, Hey,
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how do I get my guys into the best frame
of mind? How do I get my guys to the
point where they're the best versions of themselves they can be?
And you hear about the calming influx, right, the calming
influence of art, how the calming influence of Bruce Bochi,
And that's really what it was. You have a lot
of talented players on the Rangers. They've had a talented
roster for a while. And you know, we made fun
about how it's easy to hate the rank. We can
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hate any team, but I mean that she can bringing
in talent all the time. And look, you got it
right with Corey Seger. You know, the Dodgers made a
gamble that Okay, we're gonna have Seeger and we're gonna
have Trey Turner, and we know that we're probably gonna
let see or go. We feel we can fill this
position with Trey Turner. Now, Trey Turner left. Now the
Dodgers are stuck. But they made the right calls. And
this is a Texas team that is into the World Series.
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Just think about this for a second. Right, we talk
about Bochie being the right influence, and you can't misstated enough,
because they're two big acquisitions that they'd gotten from the
Mets haven't really given them anything. Right, Jacob de gram
is done. He's been out all this year, and maybe
he pitches a little bit at the end of next year.
I read yesterday that he's hoping for August or September
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to get cleared, to be hoping. You're talking about him
missing a long time and they got nothing from him,
and you get nothing basically from Schrzer, who is now
a guy that if you get two and a third
innings from him, that's what you get.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Well, but we do know this, the thirty nine home
runs hit in the regular season was no fluke whatsoever,
because we've watched Garcia run wild like Hulkamania in the
mid eighties. If we want to throw back to historical references,
like we were doing our little know your Astros game
through the last up the minutes, but the Seeger edition
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Man seventy five extra base hits, ninety six RBI and
the robust three twenty seven batting average. You know it
goes back to with the expansion of playoffs in all sports,
hang around, give yourself a puncher's chance, and go in
and just be playing some good ball down the stretch,
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and they took that. And now they've rolled in and
we're looking at the World Series and now they await
their opponent. I mean, it's an impressive run you took
out when you were doing your hate watching thing a
little bit earlier. You know, Bruce Bochi's sitting around, It's like, well,
it's not his fault that so many other teams were
dumb or were pot committed to whoever they brought in
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for analytics purposes, or didn't want to spend the cash
on a proven commodity. Right, you know, you could still
go old school, and that's one of the things that
we've watched with baseball. Sometimes the old you know, eye
an experience still matters over a couple of spreadsheets.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And I think that's what you saw here. If looking
ahead right, you see the Rangers now into the World
Series where they'll face either the Diamondbacks or the Phillies,
and you watch them take control of this series, lose
control of this series, and then get it back. Right.
This Rangers team, honestly, in this round, proved how good
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they were because up until now it had been boy,
they were really good all year. But then when the
pressure came to it, they folded. Right, they win as
a wild card, they couldn't win enough games, and the
Astros go win as the division winners. Okay, hey, they
win the first two games of the series. Wow, they
have everything, everything on control. No, then they give back
the next three in their home ballpark.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
We saw the home team lose every single game in
the series. Being able to come back from that, I mean,
that is one of the more. That is one of
the more. I want to say unexpected. But I didn't
belie leave down three to two, the letting the Astros
back in with the Askers having all momentum coming into
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these last two games. I didn't give them a chance
at this. I didn't give them a chance of winning
two games. They're gonna come and win two games here
in Houston. Who has won the World Series? And they
won it, and and they've won a couple of World Series.
They won it last year, and it's a lot of
the same players from last year. And now they got
back in and they're hot again, and suddenly they come
back home and the Rangers are able to jump on
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top of them and get the better of the pitching
matchup and they just mash. I can't tell you. I
mean really, I doubted them all the way until this
comeback right here tells me how dangerous they really are.
Because I thought, going they get into the World Series,
the Phillies are gonna roll over them. The Phillies are
gonna have the pitching advantages and they're gonna roll over them.
But you see a team that's really hot. And my
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only fear for the Rangers now is they're hitting. We'll
get a little bit of a bounce going into the
World Series. Are you gonna hit like this in the
World Series? Probably not, And you know our Garcia will
probably cool off. Your bats might cool off a little bit.
But I'll tell you that's the only fear I have
right now, is they'll get a little bit of a
bounce because right because right now, going into the World Series, yeah,
I feel like they can mash the Phillies pitching because
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I still expect the Phillies to win tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Night, but I think that becomes one of your great series.
Let's see who can outslug the other. Right, if that's
the matchup we ultimately get, right, you get the long hairs,
as you call them.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Or maybe I'm just taking your words. The long hairs,
the yellers and the screamers and the bandana waars.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yes, that's the Philadelia, those guys against the Rangers waiting
for him on the other side. And to your point, right,
Valdez has been bad so game six, he's not had
his stuff the last couple of times out, so thinking
you can get after him, great, But Christian Javier has
been nails in the postseason time and again. Right, we're
talking about starts and we're counting hits. We're not talking
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to earn runs. We're not getting home runs allowed like
we did with Lancelaine, We're not doing A and N.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
We're just talking.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
He's been virtually unhittable and here he gets one out
before he has chased from this game. Four hits allowed,
three on runs, twenty three pitches and he is gone.
Before you blinked. You might not have found the game
on the radio, and he was already.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
The channel is this game on? I'm trying to find Okay, great,
all right, got it. But legitimately, if you're flipping.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Around trying to find your local station that was carrying it,
you might have missed it because he had a couple
of batters and he was off to the races, so
he got some good work from the pen. But then
Franco gets beaten up in his two thirds or Francis sorry,
and it is the two thirds innings pitch, he gets
beaten up pretty heftily, and all of a sudden, it's
(27:36):
an insurmountable deficit for the Astros. But even in the
ninth inning, when you were dancing to hey yah and
al Tuve comes up and hits a home run, you
get a couple of runners on beaze. Off of a sudden,
like the eyebrows up going they can't do this, can they?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
They can't. I mean it's the Astros. It's at home,
it's at the juice box. Opportunity was knocking, but then
they the door and just really quick before we get
to Steve Disager for what's trending. So the fans had
left like they were gone, oh, have a thinning of
this game, and it was embarrassing people. I mean there
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was no the entire section was gone. There was a
couple people in the corner. It looked like a like
an early season April game where hey, it's it's uh
ten forty five at night, and it's it's it's it's
thirteen degrees and there's nobody there. So there's nobody in
there and it's embarrassing. And then suddenly for the ninth inning,
a whole bunch of fans were standing in those seats
(28:34):
cheering for the Astros. It's almost I almost feel like
the Astros saw that and said, oh, you know what,
this is embarrassing for us, but with no fans behind there, Hey,
grab some fans that'll stand up and cheer and put
them behind home plate. Because they were all standing and going, yeah,
well they did, I mean first like tourists.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I think the first part of it was they realized
they were on the billboard in Times Square, so they
raised their hand in victory, and then they recognized, wait
a minute, on seven runs, even after the l TV
home run.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Hey you guys want to come to sit behind home plate? Really?
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
But just cheer?
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Sure, I set up. I don't played in a game
seven of an alcs. They had like a bunch of
people that didn't know each other, Like really, they were
just off a tourism bus. Hey, what are we get
over here? Seed fillers? Now this is where they shot
that big scene in a endgame where they killed Thanos
and then we're getting on the bus now, and hey,
we're gonna get you a real live Major League Baseball game.
Just go right behind home plate and you're gonna be
(29:29):
on television.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Hey, Gret, you were starting to make that sound like
the Kramer reality too.
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Speaker 1 (30:12):
Well, we'll have more on the Rangers and the Astros
coming up in a few minutes. The Rangers in the
World Series after their defeat tonight of the Astros and
a blowout, but some blowout and blow back from Monday
Night Football that was shockingly won by the Vikings. Now
forget about trading Kirk Cousins. They're three and four now.
(30:33):
They beat the forty nine Ers twenty two seventeen in
a game that it surprised me. The final score surprises
you if you watch the game, because the Vikings clearly
had the better part of the play throughout against the
forty nine ers. And I'm ready to tell you. I'll
tell you exactly what the big hot take on the
(30:53):
radio and on TV is going to be tomorrow. I
got it down. I guarantee it. I'm gonna guarantee you this.
This is what it's gonna be. Because so far throughout
his career, now with every week going by, just like
it happened for Mac Jones, every analyst slash former player
who wants clicks couldn't wait to say the most ridiculous
(31:15):
things about Mac Jones. He's doing stuff better than Tom Brady.
He's doing all. Now finally you have somebody who, hey,
wait a minute, boy, Brock Purdy is really doing maybe
some Tom Brady things. Look he's great, Brock Purty. Look
at this, mister irrelevant. And now they're undefeated. His record
is twenty one to three. Brock Purdy is great, right,
and we've told you the real The truth about brock
(31:38):
Purty is was he underdrafted? Yeah, I could just see
the guy doing good things. Is he gonna win passing titles?
Is he Joe Montana? Does he make plays to win games?
Tell me one game where he's made a huge, huge play,
drive down the field and thrown a touchdown. He's good
because he's a good He's a good quarterback on a
team around him that is really talented. But he's okay, Right,
(32:01):
There's a lot of quarterbacks in NFL history that have
carried that mantle. He's not Tom many that have failed
with those opportunities. He's not Brady, he's not Aaron Rodgers.
He's not one of the next great quarterbacks in the NFL.
He is a guy that fits what they're doing right
now and he's playing very well. But I guarantee you
the hot because you can't just say, oh, that's the
realistic thing. The hot take tomorrow is going to be. Hey,
(32:23):
two bad games in a row. Quarterback rating was terrible,
two touchdowns, three picks, two losses. Brock Party is overrated
and the league has figured him out. They've had enough
tape on him. Now over the last year plus, you
had the le you had most of last year. Now
you had their tendencies this year through five games. Now
brock Purty's gotten figured out. They figured him out, and
(32:45):
now things are gonna be more difficult and the forty
nine ers are gonna have to find out a new way.
I can see it. I can see it all day tomorrow.
Brock Purty is overrated and the league has figured him out,
because it can't just be Hey, brock Purty, you really
overvalued and talked to, over hyped him. He's a good
quarterback and you can win a Super Bowl with him.
Nothing's changed, nothing's changed except now you because it's got
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to be he's either the best or the worst, and
now he's gonna be he's overrated and the league is
figured out. Those will be phrases you hear word for
word out of people's now. That's the headline that Bursch
is gonna tell us for the story. Guarantee it, because
then people click and then they'll start listening and be like, oh,
they weren't common rational, how dare they guarantee?
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Seventeen points back to back weeks. We saw it against
the Browns and then well the Colts went and did
what they did with Minshu mania against the Browns. Somebody's like, well,
wait a minute, now, we all know the record of
teams historically after they play the forty nine ers the
last couple of years, they'll win games, and usually they're
coming in battered, bruised, beaten with a bunch of backups.
(33:49):
I got enough bees, the killer Bees mixed therein. But
you know they survived that game. Fine, But you look
at this game tonight. To your point, the vice Kings
moved the ball down the field, Hockinson and Addison. Addison
did whatever he wanted, a couple of throws to kJ Osborne,
showing some love to our fantasy loving cohort here at
(34:12):
Fox Sports Radio. But they don't have much of a
run game. And you know what, that's fine. They were
able to pass the ball and they were good in
their past blogging. To give Kirk Cousins time. On the
other side, for the offense, you had McCaffrey, because that's
gonna be the big thing. Christian McCaffrey was available now,
Trent Williams and Deebo, Samuel Warren and look, we're at
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the point in the NFL season where we could do
the laundry list of guys who are limited in terms
of snap counts or can't play at all. That's certainly
the case for brock Perdy. He made two terrible throws.
Wantie tried to push the ball downfield into what was
essentially triple coverage, trying to thread the needle. If he
watched enough highlights from Sunday, he would have seen enough
(34:54):
evidence that that could work. So maybe he tried it
while on the run, coming up in the pocket. Maybe
you should have took the ball and run again. That's
a whole other thing with time inside the final minute.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
But yes, people are immediately gonna eviscerate him, getting gonna
ask all the questions like McDaniel got on to a
last week. It's just system guy, right, he's a purty
is a really good game manager. He's a really good
game manager, and that's what he is. But watch tomorrow.
He's overrated and the league is figured that's gonna be
the big one. The league is figuring him.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Out the fastest anybody's gone from odd for that unrated
to overrated and now obliterated.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Can the Rangers win the World Series, Who wins Game
seven of the NLCS, Those answers and more next right
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
You think the forty nine Ers would stop single covering
Jordan Addison, But no, well, or if you're gonna run
into him, run through him? Uh? First down, Vikings a
big third down pass for some reason. Jordan Addison, who
is working the Niners tonight, they continue to single cover him,
catches a big pass for a first down, and now
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San Francisco using their final time out of the night,
two thirteen left to go in the fourth quarter. It
is a twenty two to seventeen lead for the Vikings.
They have the ball in San Francisco territory, one first
down away from ending this game and certainly putting a
dent in The forty nine Ers rode to the Super
Bowl certainly been better than justin Jefferson ever was against
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the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, Addison's just been ridiculous. He's only played one game
the forty nine ers. He had four catches for eighty
three yards. But Addison absolutely ridiculous tonight, Captain Kirk, he
had the early interception, but they get the ball back
on a fumble and they cash in and they've played
well over the course of the night. Good protection. Bosa
(01:36):
just waving his hands and Cousin's face as he runs by.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
But as you.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Are lamenting what's happened in your fantasy league based on.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I just lost on that pass, the last pass they'll
throw in the game. Jordan Aison catch it and I lost.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Like I said, if you're gonna run into him, I
hate run through him. I hate instead of bouncing off
and letting him run him catch the pass because he's
still got to run his full route. Like even you
didn't even interfere with him enough to where you knocked
him off his spaces. That's the worst of it. But yeah,
Captain Kirk, on a Monday night, so to eight, all
(02:11):
where all the huge money had been laying this weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I mean, really, at some point you got to understand Okay,
Jordan Adison is killing us. I get Howkinson's having a
big day in the middle of the field, but Addison
is killing us, and yet Nope, we're going to continue
to single cover him. Can you make a Gray's anatomy
joke with Addison? That'd be great. N I can make
a moonlighting Ada David Addison joke. Nicely done, clearly Sybil.
(02:35):
The Vikings looking to shepherd their way to a win
here tonight. That's pretty good, Jay TJ. There you go.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Addison seven catches one twenty four two scores on ten targets,
including that Asonine sixty yard touchdown reception that should have
been intercepted cornerback that we've highlighted here in the studio
all day going. He could get called for a penalty
on every play and then they give him.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
A hate fantasy. I hate fantasy. So we'll have more
in this game.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Again.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
We're getting down to the two minute warning and one
first down away. The Vikings are from winning this game. However,
things getting a little chippy and even more interesting in
Houston in the bottom of the eighth inning. Now Brian Abreu,
who had his suspension pushed to next year. Remember he
got two game suspension the hit by pitch snafu earlier
(03:26):
in the series with the Rangers, and Adolas Garcia got
his suspension pushed to next year. He was allowed to
pitch tonight in Game seven. He comes in and he
hits a guy. Okay, Rangers don't retaliate because for there
thinking okay, we're going to the World Series. We don't
want to do this. Eraldus Chapman has come in to
pitch with the Rangers and he just hit McCormick on
a fastball that was way behind. McCormick did kind of
(03:49):
back into it a little bit and put his foot out,
put his leg out, but he gets hits. Now, you've
had two hit by pitches in the last inning and
a half and we still have the ninth inning to go.
Rangers up eleven three over the Astros and they are
four outs away from the World Series. Yeah, I just
remember to break you coming into the game.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And look before when it was announced earlier today that
he would be available for this game, Like, so what's
the point? So just drop the two games suspension? Does
it matter in April? Ooh, they're gonna miss out. I
don't even know what their schedule looks like, whoever that
first series is.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
H he's not gonna be available.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Oh no, we got one hundred and sixty more games.
So he comes in and obviously they're down at that point.
He plunks a hitter and then promptly gives up a
two run homer. So I think, to some degree, you go, ah, yeah,
for you, the old you know, baldon't liar.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
We want to keep you in the game. We want
to keep you in the game because you're not that good.
But they they decide to move the suspension to next year.
So he walks in and on his fourth pitch he
hits Garverer in the ribs, like and it's a good
ninety five mile an hour heater. Then just ride straight
in and like there's no hey, kind of no. He
plumped the guy in the ribs, and nobody said a word.
(05:03):
Everybody just I play on.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And obviously we're in the studio doing the show, so
we couldn't hear what was being said on the broadcast,
but nobody got up on the top of the steps.
Boachi came out just made sure it was okay. Everybody's good.
Everybody goes back, and the whole time I'm looking at you.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
We were closing out part of last hour, and I'm like,
my hands are raised, like what are we doing? What
are we doing? Major League Baseball?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You know?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
And the thing is, and I'll tell you this, I
can I can find a way. I guarantee you I
can find in less than a minute, I can find
a way to make you hate every team left in
the playoffs, every all four Baseball that you might have
no opinions of whatsoever. I can in less than a minute,
I can find a way to make you hate all
of that. Well, you know what, I could do that
in one very quick thing. Today's the anniversary of Canerico
(05:53):
and Pittsednik, the two thousand and five World Series. Joe
Carter and Joe Carter. Yeah, yeah, team's not playing. I
hate everybody, you know what I mean? But I mean
you walk in, Yeah, do you care who wins the
World Series? Like? No, my team's not it. No, I'll
make you. I can make you hate all of these teams. Everybody.
To me a team, give me a team, give me
(06:13):
as goes is too easy because all I got to
do is talk about the cheating scandal. So that that's
too easy. Everybody hates the ass. Okay, good, give me
another team. Let's go straight to the Diamondbacks. You know, diamondback.
Diamondbacks are easy to hate because the Diamondbacks are frauds.
And here's the thing. They know they're frauds. They know
they stink. They're a seventy five win team that's on
the cusp of going to the World Series.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
You got hot and you played well when it matters, frauds.
I think they put that out on video here at
Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
They are frauds, right. They know they stink, and they
walk around going, no, we're pretty good. No, we all
know you stink, and they know, yes, we know we stink.
And then you have to watch the fans, who every
single fan that goes to the game is a fan
that's hey, I'm wearing my Diamondbacks gear because you just
bought it in the store coming in. Why because I
could splurge, because I was given the tickets. Because nobody
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wants to go to these games. They're fifteen dollars apiece.
I can sit behind home plate for free because another
guy had a poker night and he decided I'd want
to go to that instead of going to a Diamondbacks game,
and oh, look we have the best pool. Look at
the pool we have. People have bigger pools in their backyard. Oh,
hit a home run into the pool. Hit it into
the pool. No, you got. And you're kidding me with
(07:25):
all this because you live in Phoenix where it's one
hundred and twenty five degrees every single day, and you
come out.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Look, no, it's easy to hate the Diamondbacks. They're frauds.
They're frauds. They're frauds, and no one wants to go
to the games. They're frauds. Say that direct there. I
make you hate the Diamondbacks. I call people frauds. Roots
to make you for the Phillies. Now and now I
can make you not root, make me, make me hate
the Phillies. All the Phillies are easy to hate.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Are you just gonna say it's always Sonny you hate
all Rob Zachlany.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Every single time you see the Phillies, it's Bryce Harper
on the top of the dugout step with his headband
and he's yelling at somebody. You hate Brice Harper. Again,
somebody gets a base hit and they turn the yell
at the dugout and the dugout yells back at the guy.
Then the guy gets a good lead off of first
base and he's excited, so he yells back at the dugout.
(08:15):
The dug out yells back at him, and then the
pitcher gets a strike on a batter and he yells
the dugout and they yell back. And I gotta watch
their beards grow longer and longer, and they wear the necklaces. Hey,
we're cool. We got these wood necklaces that are kind
of made of teeth, and we all wear. It's together,
this thing. Oh and oh, by the way, we all
go to each other's games. Like the football team goes
(08:36):
to the baseball games. The baseball team starts, go to
the football games something, go to the Philadelphia Union games
like it's high school and you go see. Oh, I'll
go see you play. You come see me play. I'll
go see that play. I'll go to that back. Oh yeah,
and it's easy to play in that park. I right now,
me fifty two years old, I would at four seventy
five if I played in that ballpark. It's the best
place to hit in Major League Baseball. And then I
(08:58):
gotta sit back and watch the ball yell at each other,
and they yelling yeay and look out good we are Yay,
We're so good. Sam made you hate the Phillies. No, no, see,
all I got from that was you hate people with
friends and hair. No, no, no, that's all I got
that entire ran. I didn't growing And no, it's not
extenching of the hair I did. You don't mention Rob
mclaney and his Philadelphia Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
The fact that they go to each other's events and
games and support each other.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, that's a bad thing. That's great. No, it's like
high school here. You going to the volleyball game. Yeah, no,
you're going to the lacrosse game.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
To go to the football game, yeah, oh, let's go
to the basket extended.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Into football and talk about And look, I never blame
a good strategy with this. You know, Jason Kelsey being
on the Today Show with his teammates talking about their
Christmas album coming out. You want to talk about Travis Kelsey.
Everybody's like, oh, he's milking the Taylor Swift thing. No, no, no,
Jason Kelsey's over here riding the gravy train right behind him. Anyway,
So we still need the Range.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
He pH the Rain Rangers. Right, Well, do we do
the Rangers or do we want to wait on the
Rangers because it's still game is still going on. He
already said, you hated the Astros, so you want to
hate the rail I'll wait. We gotta hate them. Everybody
that's left. I'll make you hate the grab the rest.
We'll go through the other teams. This is entertaining. I
want to see your head explort Halloween a week from today,
(10:20):
Scanners coming live here on Fox Sports Radio. I'm gonna
do a live Instagram feed to watch your head explode.
I'll make you hate the ready to hate the Rangers,
hate the Ranger. Here's right, here you go. You're gonna
say no one Ryan, No, no, no, no, no no, because
the Rangers of the Rangers is like Dallas, like the
Cowboys of Major League Baseball. And every year they think
we're great. We're gonna spend all kinds of money on
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guys and it never goes anywhere and they never win,
and it never We're still gonna spend money on guys
and try to sell to Hey, Texas is great. Oh,
come to Texas. Look at the Rain. We're really good
we're gonna go out and get played. You get players
every year and you stink, and now suddenly, oh no,
we're really good. And now because we were able to
go get a manager that nobody else wanted, who's a
(11:03):
great manager, but his head is so big. It's so big,
and I can't stop staring at it. And he wins
game seven's all the time and he shows up. Do
the Rangers deserve to have? Bruce Bochi, who was sitting
on the unemployment line, was never gonna work again. Hey,
come do it, because you know, we like to think
we're good, but we're really so desperate. We need all
kinds of relevancy. We don't have good, young, homegrown players
(11:25):
like everybody else. We gotta go by from everybody. We're
buying players right now. We got money sunk in on
de Gram and Shurser and all we've gotten so far
was two and a half innings from Scherzer tonight. That's
all we've got. But we're so yes, yes, yes, we're
like the big boys. We're just like New York and
Chicago and Los Angeles. No, now you hate the Rangers, there.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
You go, Yeah, but New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, aren't
headed to the World Series. I mean, Bruce Bochi in
his giant head, just a couple outs here and there's
nobody left to watch. I mean, you can get lost
in the color of those seats trying to throw the
ball because there's nobody there.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Because they quit there. You go can't hate the Rangers,
can can? It's pretty easy? No, No, because you tried
to use the argument because Bruce Boji, all the other
teams were too dumb to employ him. It's their fault
for hiring it isn't got lucky just because you had
bought all this cash on all kinds of players and
and three quarters of them never even do anything. But
(12:23):
we need a manager. I know, let's go get Boach.
I don't know why is he not working? And two
thirds of a meaningful game, just more than either your
team or might you gotta watch sus are sweat and
just sweat profuse. But he's working hard, he's robbing. He
he's America. Other guys sweating their asses off. Now they're
(12:43):
usually getting an extra FI, but they're working hard. He's
showing other guys work hard and don't visibly sweat like
Max Shurs are. Like we gotta take you out. The
man's got a glad. Probably did you just walk out
of a sauna? Come on, man, And then he's working
so Hardy can't even finish the third inning. He's a
starting pitcher, can't finish a third inning. He gave you
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forty four pitches and that was it. And then you
had Montgomery say, Hey, Montgomery, you're the man. Let's go.
It's easy to hate that. Max Schuzer, No, you're just
mad at Max Scherzer. No, not mad a man entire
rand Max. And with the Phillies, it was terrible because
it was all about friendship and hair. If I gave
you over under, you hate friends and hair. Max Scherzer
(13:25):
innings pitch in the World Series and I put it
at six, Oh, it would take the under. Oh yeah,
I would take the under. Yeah, no, I would take
the under. I mean, really, he's he's fine. That's why
the Mets traded him. He's on such a downward spiral.
This is Game seventies. He went to a two. Thirsty
went longer than any Dodger did. Game set whoa too soon?
(13:45):
This is Game seven and look and he's sweating coming
off the mound, like, hey, I'm a reliever that you
put out there. I normally pitch an inning, but I
gave you two and two thirds. What a gutty performance.
I only really go about twelve or fifteen pitches. But
look at me. No, Look he's sweating coming out of
the gout. I'm so tired, I'm so exhausted. I'm sorry,
lance Lynn Maxy maxis or pitches forty four pitches and
(14:09):
Max you know what, he cutted it out for those
forties About heart of a champion.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I am a tiger baby. I was counted out. We
were counted out. They mocked us. Come on, they're gonna
enjoy the hell out of this. With all of the
back and forth that went on with the GMS and
the astros talking all sorts of blank about winning the
division and all of that, and the final day of
how much they partied. Yeah, we're gonna party our asses
(14:34):
off tonight.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Take that. I just made you hate all those teams,
he said, all those teams, and.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
They start throwing tooth picks in the direction of Dusty Baker.
Here's here's seven of them.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Look, Dusty, Dusty Baker, is that you know? That's the
tough part. I liked about the Astros, but then I
want to sit here, and if I needed to go
anywhere other than the cheating scandal, I would go. I mean,
come on, really's sitting there, He's eighty years old with
sweat bands and yeah, coming out of the dugout like
I'm gonna do some kind of move on you. Like, yeah,
I got this, like I'm Iron Mike Sharp, and I
got the sweat bands. One of the umpires in the head. Oh,
(15:10):
it's a foreign object under the sweat bands. And Dusty Baker,
I mean, come on, that's how we go. But I
could do it anything I can get. I could make
you hate any team. It's made you hate all three
of those teams all four of those times.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
And it hates a strong word. But I mean you
you really did wear that one on your sleeve. There's
no question about it. By the way, this would be
zero to four in game sevage for.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
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(15:51):
champion and NFL MVP forty nine ers and Brock Perdy.
We will have more on this shock An you hate
him too?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You know?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh no, no, no, but now the whole thing now watch
what what you know? I will give you a bowl prediction.
I will guarantee this for you, a Brock Party Bowl
prediction for tomorrow. I guarantee you. Let me get my
Elmo's dumpster fire give. I will guarantee you this rock
Party Bowl prediction for tomorrow. Lets get it at right,
Brady's the greatest of all time. That's coming up next,
right here, Jason and Mike. You are listening to Fox
(16:21):
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 3 (16:33):
Dance Party for the Astros losing thy come back and
wait at your fault now and.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
What a comeback by the Astros? Hold oh, because this
asshat was dancing in his studio. Who would have thought
of Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Dance Party would have this
rally ended with an Art Hall home run to give
the Astros the victory and send them onto the World Series.
Let's go through the ninth inning. Danny Heap let it
(17:00):
off with a base hit. Mark Bailey doubled to the
gap and right to put runners at second and third.
Sazar Sedanio single brings in two, followed by a walking
and hard triple because he was the last guy left,
tripling off the wall to make it a five run game.
(17:21):
Alan Ashby and Andy Ashby both come up with its
trying to think somebody else named Ashby and I can't
hal Ashby Maybe sure, maybe, No, I think you're just stretching. Okay, okay,
I think you took the bid out back and hit
it now, and don't forget about Jose Cruz with a
(17:42):
big and Terry Poole came up with a two run
homer to make this a three run game. No, I
now we're really having some fun with Sure yesterday Billy
Hatcher with a home run off of the foul poland
left field just like an A and Rafael Landstoy ending
(18:03):
the rally with a two run drive to center. Look
at that who knew. It's almost like they knew it
was coming. You're out of control. That's all I can say. Now.
Batting Dicky Thon, he's three for four.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I was really I was gonna go to the Dicky
Thon and reference next that was it was just waiting
to me too brought in. I'm trying to think of
the old seventy nine Astros stratomagic cards coming. That's the
team I'm trying to get myself coming in for defensive purposes.
Bill Doran will play second base and Craig Reynolds will
come in at shortstop.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Can Joe Morgan come back and do the little hitch
with the arm? Too soon? On? Joe Morgan, come on, man,
I wanted to celebrate great? Can't hime on? He could
come out of the left field, him out of the
corn you could. You couldn't go Lance Berkman, you couldn't.
You couldn't go that. He couldn't go Bigio or Bagwell.
You couldn't go Derek Bell. No, he he did operation shutdown.
He ain't coming back and damn Norman home run? Also
(19:01):
about okay, so at Bijo. I mean some folks just
say he was a stat aggregator. We all know what
what people think about Jeff Bagwell, so we put Jeff
Bagwell off to the wayside there. Uh so all of
these astros players of the seventies and eighties, were they
enough for a late last gasp ninth inning rally. Well,
(19:21):
we have breaking news coming into our Fox Sports radio newsroom.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Alex Tischer clearly from Fox Sport working on.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
A Spotify account. Because whatever that music was, I don't
know that was still Yeah, that's a good song because
it's still dancing theause now you can actually dance. Smiths.
Go ahead, we have a final in Houston. Steve Desager,
what's going on? Your answer wasn't enough? No back to you.
Thanks gave Texas Range is not the best color guy
in the business for nothing.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Wait, ago money, Texas Rangers are going to the World Series.
They win at Houston in Game seven of the ALCS
eleven to four. The Texas Rangers franchise had not even
been the playoffs until the mid nineties. They never won
a playoff series until twenty ten. Remember they had the
runs to the World Series twenty ten, lost it twenty eleven,
(20:10):
lost a Game seven to David Frees and the Cardinals. Now,
until this year, they had not won a playoff series
since twenty eleven.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Now they're back in.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
What a turnaround because this was frankly a very bad
team back to back years these last couple of seasons.
Bruce Bochie as manager. They're into the World Series. It
starts on Fox TV Friday night. We don't know the
opponent yet because the NLCS has a Game seven in
Philadelphia tomorrow. Phillies franchise has never played a Game seven.
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Bruce Bochie is now going to the World Series where
he could win his fourth World Series. Fourth. Yeah right,
remember the every other year thing with the Giants in
the teams, you would say, right, the teams, Yeah, we
had the oddsit of the teams, had the three every
other year in the teams. And now again when he
(21:00):
was just kind of sitting around, the Rangers said come
and manage. And look, we talk about the impact that
a manager has on a team. And sometimes you need
a manager that is fire and brimstone, and you need analytics,
and you need we got to find a new way,
a new approach at the plate. We need all of
these different things and sometimes need a guy that just knows, Hey,
(21:21):
how do I get my guys into the best frame
of mind? How do I get my guys to the
point where they're the best versions of themselves they can be?
And you hear about the calming influx, right, the calming
influence of art, how the calming influence of Bruce Bochi,
And that's really what it was. You have a lot
of talented players on the Rangers. They've had a talented
roster for a while. And you know, we made fun
about how it's easy to hate the rank. We can
(21:41):
hate any team, but I mean that she can bringing
in talent all the time. And look, you got it
right with Corey Seger. You know, the Dodgers made a
gamble that Okay, we're gonna have Seeger and we're gonna
have Trey Turner, and we know that we're probably gonna
let see or go. We feel we can fill this
position with Trey Turner. Now, Trey Turner left. Now the
Dodgers are stuck. But they made the right calls. And
this is a Texas team that is into the World Series.
(22:04):
Just think about this for a second. Right, we talk
about Bochie being the right influence, and you can't misstated enough,
because they're two big acquisitions that they'd gotten from the
Mets haven't really given them anything. Right, Jacob de gram
is done. He's been out all this year, and maybe
he pitches a little bit at the end of next year.
I read yesterday that he's hoping for August or September
(22:24):
to get cleared, to be hoping. You're talking about him
missing a long time and they got nothing from him,
and you get nothing basically from Schrzer, who is now
a guy that if you get two and a third
innings from him, that's what you get.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Well, but we do know this, the thirty nine home
runs hit in the regular season was no fluke whatsoever,
because we've watched Garcia run wild like Hulkamania in the
mid eighties. If we want to throw back to historical references,
like we were doing our little know your Astros game
through the last up the minutes, but the Seeger edition
(23:02):
Man seventy five extra base hits, ninety six RBI and
the robust three twenty seven batting average. You know it
goes back to with the expansion of playoffs in all sports,
hang around, give yourself a puncher's chance, and go in
and just be playing some good ball down the stretch,
(23:22):
and they took that. And now they've rolled in and
we're looking at the World Series and now they await
their opponent. I mean, it's an impressive run you took
out when you were doing your hate watching thing a
little bit earlier. You know, Bruce Bochi's sitting around, It's like, well,
it's not his fault that so many other teams were
dumb or were pot committed to whoever they brought in
(23:44):
for analytics purposes, or didn't want to spend the cash
on a proven commodity. Right, you know, you could still
go old school, and that's one of the things that
we've watched with baseball. Sometimes the old you know, eye
an experience still matters over a couple of spreadsheets.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And I think that's what you saw here. If looking
ahead right, you see the Rangers now into the World
Series where they'll face either the Diamondbacks or the Phillies,
and you watch them take control of this series, lose
control of this series, and then get it back. Right.
This Rangers team, honestly, in this round, proved how good
(24:26):
they were because up until now it had been boy,
they were really good all year. But then when the
pressure came to it, they folded. Right, they win as
a wild card, they couldn't win enough games, and the
Astros go win as the division winners. Okay, hey, they
win the first two games of the series. Wow, they
have everything, everything on control. No, then they give back
the next three in their home ballpark.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
We saw the home team lose every single game in
the series. Being able to come back from that, I mean,
that is one of the more. That is one of
the more. I want to say unexpected. But I didn't
belie leave down three to two, the letting the Astros
back in with the Askers having all momentum coming into
(25:06):
these last two games. I didn't give them a chance
at this. I didn't give them a chance of winning
two games. They're gonna come and win two games here
in Houston. Who has won the World Series? And they
won it, and and they've won a couple of World Series.
They won it last year, and it's a lot of
the same players from last year. And now they got
back in and they're hot again, and suddenly they come
back home and the Rangers are able to jump on
(25:27):
top of them and get the better of the pitching
matchup and they just mash. I can't tell you. I
mean really, I doubted them all the way until this
comeback right here tells me how dangerous they really are.
Because I thought, going they get into the World Series,
the Phillies are gonna roll over them. The Phillies are
gonna have the pitching advantages and they're gonna roll over them.
But you see a team that's really hot. And my
(25:48):
only fear for the Rangers now is they're hitting. We'll
get a little bit of a bounce going into the
World Series. Are you gonna hit like this in the
World Series? Probably not, And you know our Garcia will
probably cool off. Your bats might cool off a little bit.
But I'll tell you that's the only fear I have
right now, is they'll get a little bit of a
bounce because right because right now, going into the World Series, yeah,
I feel like they can mash the Phillies pitching because
(26:08):
I still expect the Phillies to win tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Night, but I think that becomes one of your great series.
Let's see who can outslug the other. Right, if that's
the matchup we ultimately get, right, you get the long hairs,
as you call them.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Or maybe I'm just taking your words. The long hairs,
the yellers and the screamers and the bandana waars.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yes, that's the Philadelia, those guys against the Rangers waiting
for him on the other side. And to your point, right,
Valdez has been bad so game six, he's not had
his stuff the last couple of times out, so thinking
you can get after him, great, But Christian Javier has
been nails in the postseason time and again. Right, we're
talking about starts and we're counting hits. We're not talking
(26:47):
to earn runs. We're not getting home runs allowed like
we did with Lancelaine, We're not doing A and N.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
We're just talking.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
He's been virtually unhittable and here he gets one out
before he has chased from this game. Four hits allowed,
three on runs, twenty three pitches and he is gone.
Before you blinked. You might not have found the game
on the radio, and he was already.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
The channel is this game on? I'm trying to find Okay, great,
all right, got it. But legitimately, if you're flipping.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Around trying to find your local station that was carrying it,
you might have missed it because he had a couple
of batters and he was off to the races, so
he got some good work from the pen. But then
Franco gets beaten up in his two thirds or Francis sorry,
and it is the two thirds innings pitch, he gets
beaten up pretty heftily, and all of a sudden, it's
(27:36):
an insurmountable deficit for the Astros. But even in the
ninth inning, when you were dancing to hey yah and
al Tuve comes up and hits a home run, you
get a couple of runners on beaze. Off of a sudden,
like the eyebrows up going they can't do this, can they?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
They can't. I mean it's the Astros. It's at home,
it's at the juice box. Opportunity was knocking, but then
they the door and just really quick before we get
to Steve Disager for what's trending. So the fans had
left like they were gone, oh, have a thinning of
this game, and it was embarrassing people. I mean there
(28:14):
was no the entire section was gone. There was a
couple people in the corner. It looked like a like
an early season April game where hey, it's it's uh
ten forty five at night, and it's it's it's it's
thirteen degrees and there's nobody there. So there's nobody in
there and it's embarrassing. And then suddenly for the ninth inning,
a whole bunch of fans were standing in those seats
(28:34):
cheering for the Astros. It's almost I almost feel like
the Astros saw that and said, oh, you know what,
this is embarrassing for us, but with no fans behind there, Hey,
grab some fans that'll stand up and cheer and put
them behind home plate. Because they were all standing and going, yeah,
well they did, I mean first like tourists.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I think the first part of it was they realized
they were on the billboard in Times Square, so they
raised their hand in victory, and then they recognized, wait
a minute, on seven runs, even after the l TV
home run.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Hey you guys want to come to sit behind home plate? Really?
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
But just cheer?
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Sure, I set up. I don't played in a game
seven of an alcs. They had like a bunch of
people that didn't know each other, Like really, they were
just off a tourism bus. Hey, what are we get
over here? Seed fillers? Now this is where they shot
that big scene in a endgame where they killed Thanos
and then we're getting on the bus now, and hey,
we're gonna get you a real live Major League Baseball game.
Just go right behind home plate and you're gonna be
(29:29):
on television.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Hey, Gret, you were starting to make that sound like
the Kramer reality too.
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Speaker 1 (30:12):
Well, we'll have more on the Rangers and the Astros
coming up in a few minutes. The Rangers in the
World Series after their defeat tonight of the Astros and
a blowout, but some blowout and blow back from Monday
Night Football that was shockingly won by the Vikings. Now
forget about trading Kirk Cousins. They're three and four now.
(30:33):
They beat the forty nine Ers twenty two seventeen in
a game that it surprised me. The final score surprises
you if you watch the game, because the Vikings clearly
had the better part of the play throughout against the
forty nine ers. And I'm ready to tell you. I'll
tell you exactly what the big hot take on the
(30:53):
radio and on TV is going to be tomorrow. I
got it down. I guarantee it. I'm gonna guarantee you this.
This is what it's gonna be. Because so far throughout
his career, now with every week going by, just like
it happened for Mac Jones, every analyst slash former player
who wants clicks couldn't wait to say the most ridiculous
(31:15):
things about Mac Jones. He's doing stuff better than Tom Brady.
He's doing all. Now finally you have somebody who, hey,
wait a minute, boy, Brock Purdy is really doing maybe
some Tom Brady things. Look he's great, Brock Purty. Look
at this, mister irrelevant. And now they're undefeated. His record
is twenty one to three. Brock Purdy is great, right,
and we've told you the real The truth about brock
(31:38):
Purty is was he underdrafted? Yeah, I could just see
the guy doing good things. Is he gonna win passing titles?
Is he Joe Montana? Does he make plays to win games?
Tell me one game where he's made a huge, huge play,
drive down the field and thrown a touchdown. He's good
because he's a good He's a good quarterback on a
team around him that is really talented. But he's okay, Right,
(32:01):
There's a lot of quarterbacks in NFL history that have
carried that mantle. He's not Tom many that have failed
with those opportunities. He's not Brady, he's not Aaron Rodgers.
He's not one of the next great quarterbacks in the NFL.
He is a guy that fits what they're doing right
now and he's playing very well. But I guarantee you
the hot because you can't just say, oh, that's the
realistic thing. The hot take tomorrow is going to be. Hey,
(32:23):
two bad games in a row. Quarterback rating was terrible,
two touchdowns, three picks, two losses. Brock Party is overrated
and the league has figured him out. They've had enough
tape on him. Now over the last year plus, you
had the le you had most of last year. Now
you had their tendencies this year through five games. Now
brock Purty's gotten figured out. They figured him out, and
(32:45):
now things are gonna be more difficult and the forty
nine ers are gonna have to find out a new way.
I can see it. I can see it all day tomorrow.
Brock Purty is overrated and the league has figured him out,
because it can't just be Hey, brock Purty, you really
overvalued and talked to, over hyped him. He's a good
quarterback and you can win a Super Bowl with him.
Nothing's changed, nothing's changed except now you because it's got
(33:07):
to be he's either the best or the worst, and
now he's gonna be he's overrated and the league is
figured out. Those will be phrases you hear word for
word out of people's now. That's the headline that Bursch
is gonna tell us for the story. Guarantee it, because
then people click and then they'll start listening and be like, oh,
they weren't common rational, how dare they guarantee?
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Seventeen points back to back weeks. We saw it against
the Browns and then well the Colts went and did
what they did with Minshu mania against the Browns. Somebody's like, well,
wait a minute, now, we all know the record of
teams historically after they play the forty nine ers the
last couple of years, they'll win games, and usually they're
coming in battered, bruised, beaten with a bunch of backups.
(33:49):
I got enough bees, the killer Bees mixed therein. But
you know they survived that game. Fine, But you look
at this game tonight. To your point, the vice Kings
moved the ball down the field, Hockinson and Addison. Addison
did whatever he wanted, a couple of throws to kJ Osborne,
showing some love to our fantasy loving cohort here at
(34:12):
Fox Sports Radio. But they don't have much of a
run game. And you know what, that's fine. They were
able to pass the ball and they were good in
their past blogging. To give Kirk Cousins time. On the
other side, for the offense, you had McCaffrey, because that's
gonna be the big thing. Christian McCaffrey was available now,
Trent Williams and Deebo, Samuel Warren and look, we're at
(34:33):
the point in the NFL season where we could do
the laundry list of guys who are limited in terms
of snap counts or can't play at all. That's certainly
the case for brock Perdy. He made two terrible throws.
Wantie tried to push the ball downfield into what was
essentially triple coverage, trying to thread the needle. If he
watched enough highlights from Sunday, he would have seen enough
(34:54):
evidence that that could work. So maybe he tried it
while on the run, coming up in the pocket. Maybe
you should have took the ball and run again. That's
a whole other thing with time inside the final minute.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
But yes, people are immediately gonna eviscerate him, getting gonna
ask all the questions like McDaniel got on to a
last week. It's just system guy, right, he's a purty
is a really good game manager. He's a really good
game manager, and that's what he is. But watch tomorrow.
He's overrated and the league is figured that's gonna be
the big one. The league is figuring him.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Out the fastest anybody's gone from odd for that unrated
to overrated and now obliterated.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
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