September 25, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike react to the Padres turning a game ending triple-play against the Dodgers to clinch a spot in the Postseason!!
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should be. The Padres and the Dodgers. It is over
in Chaves Ravine and Miguel Rojas is living When when
I was a kid was my biggest fear playing baseball.
Padres are up four to one over the Dodgers going
to the ninth inning. Okay, yeah, exactly, yeah, no, seriously, dude,
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this was my worst nightmare when I was playing. When
I played baseball, I was a kid. Uh, Padres are
up for one. If they win, they clinch a playoff
berth and they were on their way, motoring through. But
then the ninth inning and the Dodgers start doing Dodger things.
Put some runners on base, they get a run. They
have first and second with nobody out. Okay, first and second,
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nobody out. Miguel Rojas is up and show, hey, Otani's
on deck. Yeah, okay, so hey, nobody out. You got
Otani coming up at some point four to two. You're
feeling pretty good. And like Jason, we quote Jason Starkling
almost every night here on the show. He has always
said one of the things that will always stay with me.
Baseball's been around for one hundred and four forty years,
(02:00):
and we still say, I've never seen that before. Bases loaded,
nobody or first and second, nobody out. Ninth inning, Show Heyo,
tany on deck and this is what happened.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh, you didn't really think I was gonna play?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Come on, man, we gotta play it. You could, you
could close your ears, but we gotta play it.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Man. I mean, this is history. It's like.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Rojas on the ground a third, but shot o'touchers third, first.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
To second, come that first. Oh my godness, that's a
triple play. It hits the ball game.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
The San Diego Padres have clutched their spot of the
postseason after a magical twenty twenty four campaign.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Will this finally be the year for the faithful?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Nopeo Padre's radio network on the call, Miguel Rojas grounds
into a triple play. You don't see the ground into
a triple play that often. No, you had Hernandez single
to center right, so first and second. Now you made
a four to one game, four to two, and he
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squared up to bunt on.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
The first pitch, did Rojas? Yeah, pull the bat back
now it's a one, and then hits the ground ball
and can't get down to first to beat it out
and give Otani a chance.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I mean, I really unbelievable. Look, it's stunning when I'm
watching it. At the end of a few minutes ago,
we were we were talking about I'm going, did I
just see a walk off triple play?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I almost stopped talking. I was watching the replay, going,
what the hell that was a walk off triple play?
Oh my goodness, to clinch a playoff, Right, that's a
job about dropping down to the desk. Man, I'm speaking
to you, so I'm looking at you and I've got it,
you know, one eye on the monitor. It's like, wait,
did I really? And then they review it at second base?
(03:50):
Right did he slide it? Now, ball's there, caught foots
on the bag, not neighborhood play or anything else. Uh
and he and he throws him out, And it's just
that moment and you can feel the the gasp and
the excited utterances from our guy Frostburg and from the
other Dodger fans walking around the Fox Sports radio studios
(04:10):
here in southern California. But I mean, just absolutely amazing
with Otani where they just did a whole thing of him,
you know, bouncing around the the on deck circle like
a cat waiting for his time, looking at his shot back.
That's what hurts more than the triple play, even thought
that he was on desk. Even if he hit into
a double play, you're still Tony coming, You still runner on. Yes,
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just hit into it. Be a team player, Rojas headwear
get the first man just hit into a double. But
it's a ground ball to third where he's able to
take how many steps two three steps to get to
the bag before he turns and fires to second base.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
This is this is why I want to see the
ISO of Rojas getting down to.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
First, getting out of the box.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
It is a sharply hit grounder, but still Machado makes
this play a good couple of feet in front of
third base, and he kind of he catches it, and
he sort of takes a split second to decide.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, he moves like a turtle right, but not on this,
not on this play, and this and extremely slow man
and a split second to decide, and he has to
take two steps back to step on third. If this
was sharp grinder, I catch the ball and I'm stepping
on third in one motion. Hey, you get a triple play.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Now, Rojas is a right handed batter, so he's not
lefty getting out of the box. But you had Machado
take two steps back to third, fires over to second
like this was a bullet that barely got the runner
at second, and the throw to first, like Roass was
it was almost beat him by a half a step,
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like it wasn't even close at first.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
The closer play was at.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Se second where they awed it because that say to
do they stopped us in the previous play is under review,
and I'm like he was out at first about Rojas
second base was the closer play and and it wasn't out,
Like the correct call was made all the way around,
and Miguel Rojas grounds into a game ending triple play.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Stuff you've never seen before and you'll never see again.
Clinch a playoffs amazing and the ending on playoffs as
a result, you know, against the rival, Yeah, on their field,
all right enough, And that's how it. Two of them
we've seen. We've already set it up for America.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
When you you know, when you say twenty twenty four
and I think about you know, I always think about boys.
Stuff I've seen this year in baseball that I've never seen.
This is why I love baseball, even though Knights like
to Mike when the Mets lose. Uh, you know, it's
as I think about stuff like that was a long
time ago. But yeah, like I'll think about this moment
being on the air and just being gobsmacked with did
I just see a game? Did he just ground into
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a triple play? I'll think about this play, and I'll
think about the play where The Mets won the second
game of the London series a two to three double
play to end the game where where it was a
swinging butt with the bases loaded and tourns. The catcher
gets it in front of the plate, steps on the
plate and throws a first Like when do you ever
see a two three double play?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You never do right? And it was really you know,
it was.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
A London series, so I had a lot of attention
and then this play tonight here, I really, I mean
the way to lose games and win games like this,
it's amazing. But I really want to see Rojas and
how he got down the line, because there's there's no
we gota. Yeah, get Kurt Warner. He'll he'll watch film
with us and we'll show him exactly what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Like I want to know, like did he stumble? Did
he slip? Did he really?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Did he dog it a little bit getting out of
the box, because there's no way that Machado should have
been able to catch the ball quickly, decide, decide, but
decide quickly take two steps back to step on the
base and then a great throw, a great relay the
second and first. But that shouldn't happen there, There's there's
no way that should happen.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
No, not a major leaguer. And again the the execution
and not getting a bunt down, not sticking with bunting
right situational baseball. Again, even if you make me out
at the play, you know, with a fouled third strike
on a bunt, still only one out and the bat's
still as the lead run. All you to do is
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not hit into a triple play. And Otani was coming up.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
If you said to me, hey, Jason, you could put
all your your daughter's future education on the fact that
Otani would bat.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Would get Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, what what's he gonna do?
Hit into a triple Oh? No, Dodgs.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
No, they thought they were due. Dodd had hit into
a triple play in ten years.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Ten years. I mean, you don't ground grounding triple plays.
You don't get man, that doesn't happen. No, this is
just insane. I'm with you, though, I want to see
the Rojas iso. I don't after the swing. I know
you don't, because I see we can't undo it.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Okay, it's this, he's slower than If you're slower than Machado,
you're really really slow.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Machada is the fastest one on that plane now has
when we confirmed that Machado's or we just confirmed that
times he gives you less than the above. Yeah, I
was I was going to say more the efforts side
of it than anything else, but yeah, this is absurd.
I I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And honestly, when I was playing baseball when I was
a kid, this was my worst fear because I was
really slow running. Non I hated running. I was now
I was, I was slow. Maybe that's why I hated running.
Also because running sucks. Right again, Matt Damon from the
end of air, What am I doing? This is just stupid.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I don't understand, and it might be the funniest bit
of a movie since Step Brothers. This is just stupid.
Why would anybody do this?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And the crazy thing is is that when I meet
I know a lot of people who run, and like
when I first meet them and they want to talk sports,
like you know, they feel like, oh, I could talk
running with you, and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Folks our age seem to have really gotten into that.
I'm like running phase, like that's somehow gonna extend their life,
like twenty years or something.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I want to say, I understand that you run, but
I'm dude, that's the worst thing in the world. That
is the ad Why would anybody run when you don't
have to. I don't understand I ran when I played sports.
I love running playing sport. Why would you run if
you didn't have to? I mean, I'd rather ride a
bike or do that or walk not Why would I run?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Why running? Is running is just stupid? Again?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Why this is just dumb? Why am I doing this?
But that was always my biggest feats because so slow.
And that's why, you know, when I was See, here's
the thing, all right, tyser?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You got my music?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Story music? Yeah, my story music ready? All right, let's
I have my story music ready? Is that when I
was a kid and the sports I played, the big
sports I played were baseball, hockey, and football. Now, hockey,
I was actually I was actually pretty fast skater, which
surprised me because I'm like, I'm slow as crap and
everything else. But I'm I'm an okay skater. But I
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was a great offensive player anyway. Uh playing football and
playing baseball, I was short and I was slow. Now
I couldn't make it in football because even though I
was a good tackler, like.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
You can make to get there. You can make it
if you're small, if you're fast, and you can make
it if you're slow, if you're big.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But I was short and I was slow, and so
it was really difficult and baseball running was the worst part.
We I still I think I might have PTSD. We
did a drill once where the coach wanted us to
run and he had us all like like within a
few feet at each other in the infield and uh
like on the base pass and he said, I'm gonna
say go, and everybody runs until they catch the person
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in front of them, and and if you don't catch
person in front of you, keep running. And I'm like,
as soon as he said, I said, I'm gonna be
the last one here. I'm never catching anybody. I'm not
I'm just not doing it. I'm okay, and we go,
and of course the guy in front of me happened
to be fast. I'm like, I'm not catching him, so.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
He just turn and tackle him and says see.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So he said go, and we all went and we
were all running and like most of it's over within
like twenty five seconds, but like at the end. It
was me between first and second and the guy the
only the last guy was between third and home and
and he's he's and he's like laughing because it look
how far away I am from him. He knows I'm
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not catching him, and more likely he would catch me
before I would catch him. And I'm doing it, and
the coach goes and this is the only time I was, Oh,
here's my music. Good, here's my music, and still clearing.
You know, I was always a coachable kid, right, I
was always coachable because I always, you know, I just was.
Maybe that's why I became a coach. I was always
a coachable kid. And he's doing he said, okay, keep going,
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and I just looked at him and I just stopped
and I said it's over. I said it's over. And
I think then he realized that, oh wow, oh this
kind of really embarrassed him. Okay, and you didn't get
mad at me, didn't make me run laps or anything else.
But I think he knew.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
But I just looked at him, and I'm a fourteen
year old kid, and I just looked at him and
I said it's over. Now, it's over.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And I walked off and I walked off the field,
and I think everybody else was having fun realized, oh yeah,
somebody who's gonna finish last? And now this because it's
not like I dogged it and it's not like I
didn't run. I went all the way until I said,
I'm not catching anybody. And there were like twelve of
us on the field and now we're down to two,
and I'm like, I'm not doing it. When I would
when I would bat, I would just say to my
because I would always hit, and I would have that
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fear sometimes I would go, if I rip a groundball
to the third baseman and he steps on the bag,
I'm gonna ground into a triple play?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Did you just lean? No?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
But I was too good of a hitter that that,
you know, But I still had that fear. No, sure,
as I headed to the outfield. But I still have
that fear that if I do that, I'm grounding in
a triple play and that's gonna be and I don't
know if I can ever play baseball after that. Like
that was my worst fear that I ever had in
my life. And I watched Rojast do it and go,
that's that's he just lived out my worst.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Did you just tell him that he should retire?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
No, no, what I'm saying, Well, maybe maybe maybe he
shouldn't pinch run for anybody. That's probably, but maybe maybe
other things. But pinch running might not be your thing.
It might not be your thing. Oh, I still can't
believe it. A walk off triple play. Grounder exit out
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Speaker 2 (14:00):
I'm really kind of digging the music.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, Garing get that we'll have more reaction on this
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Speaker 1 (16:00):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
You know, before we get to that big NFL story,
I do have to say, look, I feel for Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Oh it's the worst, grounding into a triple play to
end the game, can't get a bunt down.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
And it's like the more I see this play, the
further Manny Machado is from third base every time.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I know it does seem that way, doesn't it. Because
I just saw the replay up on one of our
monitors again and it was just like it really was
it really three steps to the base to step on
the turn and fired a second yes, and to pound
the glove like he took the se split second d second.
It was heroic. And then he threw a laser down
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the second look and I told just gonna come in
here and kicking he lived.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
That was my nightmare as a kid. As I said
a few minutes ago, was grounding running you dude, I couldn't.
I was so slow, I was so amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
We're getting you a shirt that says run like Rojas.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
And then the picture is him just just falling shorter
first base and that's about right.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
But I did.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I do want to say this right, because you know,
I never grounded triple play. But one of my worst
memories was I once I once, uh, do you want
to do? You want a Frostburg? All right, let's go.
We want to hear from ud Dave Roberts is talking
about the triple play.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Let's I mean, you just you know, there's less than
a one percent chance that show Hey doesn't come to bat,
and unfortunately that per small percentage came to came into
play situation. No, no, I mean I don't think that
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you can. You have to. You know, it's first and
second base, nobody out. Certainly the tying run is on
first base. You bun into that play, the first base
was out. I just don't think that you're expecting a
triple play. Hit the ball hard, and I just can't play.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You can't, you can't. What are you gonna say? Tap
dance around this? Wea what are you gonna say at
this point? Right?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
What are you gonna say it's a nightmare, man, it's
a night it's a nightmare for the Dodgers. It's a
nightmare for Roha.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And now I'm reliving all the worst parts of my
baseball life. Is that one time, and when we played
thirteen year olds, we played on a much bigger field.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
It was weird.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
This was my because again I was so slow, but
I could hit. I was a great I was a
really good player. I was just slow. And we played
on this field that it was ninety feet down to
first base as thirteen.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Year olds like.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
So it was way too big for us. But that
was our field. And but the outfield was shorter. The
way the field was was it was a really short
right field into center field and then it was a
deep left field left because there was a creak behind.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Okay, good, they can only build it so far. But
when you're thirteen, there's not many left handed batters, and
not many people are are are hitting are hitting home
runs over the fence and right field right if you're
hitting it right all we're all right handed batters. So
now center field and in right field are a little
bit closer to second bag, to the bases than it
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is right not to make an excuse. And we were
playing a game against this team, and the pitcher was
a really good fastball pitcher, so everybody was kind of
playing him. So the outfield was playing a little bit
to not pull. So they're playing a little bit towards
right field anyway. And I always love fastballs. I'm like, yeah,
give me fastball. Hit it when it's when the curveballs
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and the.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Sliders couldn't hit it, couldn't lay off it, right, So
this could Tony Peppy that was his name, Tony really yeah,
Tony Peppy. And he threw a really hard fastball. He
had a nice where he had a nice rising fastball.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You have to yeah, and he's through a rising fastball
and I just smacked it line drive, really hard over
the second baseman's head and one bounce and I'm not
even halfway up the line, and the center fielder has
the ball on his glove and I throw you out
and I just said, oh no, and I'm like, maybe
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I'll get lucky. He'll throw the ball back in. No,
the kid in center field was pretty good saw it
and he threw to first base and he got me
by like a step and I get back in the dugout.
I remember one of my teammates, Anthony Pocozzi, Anthy Pocozi.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
He says to me, that's the first eight three I've
seen in a long time, and I said, yeah, yeah,
and I get the coach with your helmet at But
like if it was a regular field, I wouldn't have
hit and do it. But it's still I hit a
lot and i'd ripped it. I still I can still
feel it because it didn't he I didn't feel it
coming off my bad head that hard, and it was
in one way out. It was a rocket and one
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bounce and the center fielder had it and I'm going, oh, no, no,
and I'm running as fast as I can of the band.
I'm just not fast, And of course he makes a
great throw which is not really far because again the
field's a little bit closer, and he throws me out
on the fly, like that's how close it was. He
could throw a fly to third base and I was
out and I was at first base, and I'm just like,
I don't want to play again. I'm done. I'm done.
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I want to go home. I want to go home
and never play again, I'm done. I fit.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I think that was the moment I realized I'm never
gonna play shortstop for the Mets.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
My life is Jason Mason Begs. Not gonna happen, because
you know what I would say, how dare this guy
get thrown out in an eight three? Oh, I'll be
the guy talking about the games. Okay, that's me, that's
what I do. How do you get thrown out? Eight three?
Eight seven seven eight three? That's the first eight three
I've seen in a long time. Man. And the thing is,
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the kid playing center field was a better pitcher than
Tony Peppy TC and he just didn't pitch against us.
He had a great curve ball slider. Like this kid
was as good. You didn't see him like he was,
Like he became a star pitcher in high school. This
is their second pitcher.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
L had a really good team, and like this guy,
he's all he throws his gas and I'm like, okay,
I'm fine, I'm fine with this guy. But I'm as
soon as I hit that, I'm like, oh no, oh
no no no, no, no, no no no no. Throw
me out of first base by about a step. Wasn't
even close, Like I think the umpire would have given
me the benefit I did. I would give you the
benefit of the doubt, but you were out.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
There is another little sequence in the animated series of
Little Jason that was tough putting together.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Was tough, But Lee, I think I've been able to
live with it. I lived with it at the time
because it was the field, like if it was just
a normal baseball field, that wouldn't have happened like it
probably would have been in the gap and I probably
would have had a double, But instead, because of the
field that he was playing me a little bit that
I wasn't out.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
A pull it. How many weeks or months did it
take to get you to that conclusion, because you did
not do that overnight? Oh oh, I don't know. Probably no.
How many hats did you give it away? At my
time you left that I was thirteen at that point. No, no, no,
I mean later on, because this is a process. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I think in the in the end, after a while,
maybe how long do you maybe a few days?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I just you know what the field was like.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I think the coach told me that too, said, you know,
if we're playing a regular field that met ball's probably
the fence because he hit one. The center fielder is
not getting to it. But he goes, but they did
have you shaded? I said, no, I hit it right
to him. He goes, but I mean, what am I
gonna say?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
You hit it.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
That's the hardest ball that anybody's hit in the last
few weeks on our team.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
And then he tapped you on his shoulder and said,
get run and said and then he said, sit down.
You're coming out of the game. What do you want
for me an apology? Forget it? So I'm taking you
out of the game. I want you to sit out.
What do you want for me to apology? I'm not
giving you one bump I want you. I'm taking you
out of the game. Bump, You're coming out of the game.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
So my heart's out to Miguel Ross because I know
exactly what he's saying, Like thirteen, This is forty years ago,
and I can still see I can still see that play.
I can still see TC just turning and just flinging
it into into.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
The first basement. Of course he's got to make a
great h howd he just laid down the bunt? No,
that's right, see would you?
Speaker 6 (23:47):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
No? I love how Dave Roberts says that was never
an option. Yeah, if that's not an option, the guy
shouldn't be easysuld pinch hit for it. Hey, Dave, you
know what's not an option? A triple play that's really
not grounding in to the damn Padres. Well, that's the
other part of this, right in a in a vacuum
ground to get into a triple play is really really dead. No, No,
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the other party on deck and again that hurts. They
had this long sequence right and we don't. We're in
the studio so we don't have the the audio up
obviously as we're doing the show. But they they stay
on Otani for a while. Yeah, it pitches so like
you know what's all about wow otonic it is. It's
it's like a and you know, September script ready to go.
(24:34):
Here we go. It's four to two and there's Otani
and he's gonna get up to bat against the hated
Padres and blah blah blah, and then that never gets
to happen.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
You know what I want to see, in addition to
seeing how fast Row hosted or didn't get down the line,
is I want to see Otani's reaction after the triple
play because I kept thinking, like when's Laton played for
La Galaxy, right, Like one of his favorite things to
do was like if the Galaxy had a big play
offensively and he didn't have the ball, and he would
get into the box ready, and if the pass went
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over his head or it got cut off and went
the other way, his Laton would just stop, look at
his teammate and stretch his arms out, like what are
you doing?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
How did you not get me the ball? Like that's
completely your fault, Like he would do that. He was
like nobody was better at saying this is your fault.
And Laton liked, did O'tani do that? Like Rohas gets
thrown out at first and O'tani just drops the bat
and puts his arms out like you know I'm on deck, right,
you know I'm coming. You had one job. You know
I'm going. You're just tending a game to me. You
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just had to.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Make sure I get into that batter's box standing on
this great dirt with my bat and was able to
pit back.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
That's all you had to do. You had one job.
You had one job.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
The real question, guys, is how much the misaharror make
off that triple play.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
See I had another epay reference Holster nicely man.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
If that if that game ending walk off triple play
ever hits, I'm gonna be a rich man. I bet
that every night later on this week. What's a what's
a game ending triple play?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
We'll get the odds. Gotta get up at the at
the counter.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I bet a game ending triple play in a baseball
game every single night, and it finally hits, and I
forgot to bet it and go Rojas post game?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
You ready for this? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Go, I feel like I let the team down. You're
damn right you did. Is that what the reporter senators saying?
That's what I said. I feel like I let the
team down.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Yeah, And look and it is a great night because
we welcome justin Frostburg back off the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Uh, do you really feel like this is a good idea?
You're coming back tonight? No, I'm never coming back again.
That's it. He's like, I'll see after we win the
World Series. I'm done. I'm done. I can't do that.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Triple ending triple play that end of the game to
get the Padres into the postseason.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, that is a sign from from whoever it is upstairs. Man,
I gotta go. That's a lot, that's a convergence to
a lot of stuff, because that's the thing, right, It's
all of that and the padres Yeah, write any other
nameless face. Yeah, with on deck. I think let's get
(27:14):
his reaction as told to you by you know what
we need to do.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I bet you we could start like remember when uh
uh uh uh uh uh Jim Joyce made the bad
call under Scalaga and everybody started a a uh a Twitter.
I mean with the hashtag uh Jim Joyce, what was it?
What what Jim Joyce uh said safe for something like that,
(27:39):
and people would would uh would say their own thing
with the hashtag Jim Joyce says it's safe. Like you
would say, like, hey, I didn't want to eat that
that green meat that came out of the vending machine,
but Jim Joyce says it's safe, right, And everybody would
say that you know I didn't you know, I didn't
want to get in that car with the uh with
the guy with the meat cleaver, but you know, uh,
(28:01):
Jim Joyce says it's safe. Could we start something like
that and make our hashtag with Otani on deck, I.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Like that, Yeah, let's do that. Boy, was really bad
that I forgot to that.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I forgot to guess up in my car and I
ran out of gas on the freeway and the four
oh five came to a stop with Otani on deck,
right like, like, did that work?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Do you want to talk about the easiest hour ever since?
I mean, they've had a couple of them here, uh
in caller driven radio here AM five seven E l
A Sports. You had the beatdown of U C l
A a couple of weeks ago, uh, to where it's
just all right, rant away this one after this Dodger loss.
(28:43):
I can only imagine what the uh A lot of
a lot of tongues flapping off of this one with
Otani on deck.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Deck It's like the Fortune Cookie where everything ends in
bed deck.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, deck with on deck, boy, I tell you, I
really hated the with Otani on deck.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Man, I'm telling you that was that was really really difficult.
So again, I mean, we don't we don't see this
that often. Uh So now to give us more details
on what's trending in the wide world of sports, A man,
we used to call mister triple play here at Fox
Sports Radio because he would work three shifts during the
week and get paid for one. It's Isaac Lohenkron. What's
(29:30):
trending on deck? I was only worth one? What's trending?
Among other things triple play and Miguel Rojas don't check
your mentions among the current comments. Cut Miguel Rojas, please DFA,
Miguel Rojas, WTF and then just Jim and his robots posting.
(29:53):
In my forty plus years of watching baseball, I don't
think I need two hands to count the number of
triple plays I've seen.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
What a fluke ending.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
Okay, he apparently has seen a lot of triple plays
in his forty year career. And the reason that Miguel
Rojas and triple play is trending. The San Diego Padres
holding a four to two lead over the Dodgers in
the bottom of the ninth inning, the Dodgers rattling already
one run across. They had runners at first and second,
(30:23):
nobody out time run at first? Show Hey Otani on deck,
Miguel Rojas of the Dodgers at the plate, and here's
what happened on k WFN.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Nothing and one swinging away grab balla machado, he hits third.
That's one, goes to second in time? What the first?
Hot triple play? Hot triple play and the ball game
is over.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
The Padres clinch a postseason berth.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Yeah whatever, five four three triple play.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
That was actually from the livest our justin Frossburg was
so incensed that he instantly bent the laws of physics,
ran from here into the Padres radio booth and yelled
over their radio broadcast, and then ran back here. Good sweet,
And mcguel still hasn't ran the first. They're timing him
(31:24):
with a sundial anyway, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
And I will say this, really, I mean, the people
aren't saying this is that triple play pretty much took
the Dodgers right out of the inning.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
People aren't talking about that.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
And it also took their leader of the Padres for
first place in the National League West from three down
to two. The Houston Astros over the Seattle Mariners Tuesday night,
four to three to clinch the AL West for a
fourth straight year seventh time in the last eight years.
Orioles over the Yankees five to three despite Aaron Judges
fifty sixth throm run. Yankees missed a chance to clinch
(31:56):
the Al East, but the Orioles clinched a post season
birth and finally, the Chicago White Sox rallied for three
runs at the bottom of the eighth thing to beat
the Angels three to two, avoiding a record one hundred
and twenty first loss. Now Jason and Mike before the
White Sox made that dramatic comeback, when they were staring
that historic one hundred and twenty first loss right in
(32:17):
the face, in the face, in the face in the face,
someone used the occasion to post the following message on
the stadium video board. Veronica, will you marry me?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Boy?
Speaker 7 (32:30):
No word yet on what Veronica's answer was, So I'll
leave you with this. Is that kind of a red
flag when you get proposed to at a twenty twenty
four White Sox home game? Is it strangely admirable or
is that.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Like a big red flag?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
No, no, I think you've already won in the fact
that she agreed to go to said game. Good point.
That's loyalty. She's already shown the loyalty dedication. Hootspa, let
us know. Veronica.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
Back to you guys.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
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Speaker 2 (33:31):
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And uh, look as we still reel from the triple
the walkoff triple play, the padres No, it hurt me
really badly. The quarterback derby that we thought would be over.
(33:58):
With the Pittsburgh Steelers and Justin Fields and Russell Wilson
still is going on right even after Justin Fields had
a big day in Week three, his best day with
the Steelers yet first couple of weeks. Yes, game managing,
but did make some plays with his legs. Sunday was
a big game, had the big touchdown pass, made some
big runs. Clearly this is his job. But Mike Tomlin
(34:25):
doesn't want.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
To actually give the job to Justin Fields. He just
wants to say that, well, Justin's got the job for now,
and there's no reason for you to make an absolute
statement about any of this.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
He went right at it. I mean, after three start,
I mean, you're gonna be fired up. It is bold.
Was he talking about Russ.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Here?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
He was talking about why he's not naming a starting quarterback.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I'm sorry, it said Mike Tomlin on I know, yeld.
So apparently how it's gonna go, We're gonna get both
of those. Yeah, Mike Tomlin, I'm gonna get half of
that ass whatever. Oh that's what he said. Hey, you
did you get that? Three Tomlins? But he can't edit that.
(35:17):
That's a triple play. He can't edit that that fast.
So instead, really, here's Mike tom you doubt me, Here's
Mike Tomlin. You doubted me, here's Mike.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I'm good. You're getting Tomlin. Now, really, and.
Speaker 8 (35:28):
Russ gets to an appropriate point of health and we
have a decision to make. I'll make it and i'll
announce it and I'll be really transparent about it. But
until then, I don't care. How many ways you guys
ask me, I got no intentions of making the decision
that's unnecessary at this juncture.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
What more you need to see from Justin Why not
name him the.
Speaker 8 (35:44):
Starting quarterback on because there's no need. I explained to
you the variables of the week. It has not changed.
He's gonna walk in this building with that mindset tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I like that he went up the register there. Now
there's no need. I told you there's no need, no need.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
I don't know if you're talking to Mike went on
to say this, Mike Tomlin gets whatever.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
That you challenged him.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Look, uh, here's the thing, and congratulations for people who
wanted to steal that take that we told you about
a week ago.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Cam Newton.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Uh, he told you a week ago. Russell Wilson is
not going to be healthy. As long as Justin Fields
is playing well, he is not going to be deemed
healthy and ready to come back and play quarterback. This
is why Mike Tomlin is being evasive. I don't want
to annoint Justin Fields because if Justin Field stinks and
I want to go back to Russ it's a thing,
and I want to protect Russell Wilson again. Find someone
(36:40):
who loves you as much as Mike Tomlin loves Russell Wilson.
I want to protect his image and make it seem
like he's still the guy, and we're just taking everything
game by game. It's Justin Fields's job right now. If
a couple of games go by and Fields is bad
and the Steelers lose, yeah, then he'll they say, I
want to go back. Russ is finally magically healthy, but
(37:00):
he's not gonna be healthy until Justin Field starts playing poorly.
And if Justin Fields doesn't play poorly, it's gonna get
to a point where we really can't make the change.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Things are going well.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Russ's fied like week eight, like Russ is finally gonna
be hey, he can finally do things like I don't
doubt he could play right now, But you're not gonna
change quarterbacks to Your team is three and zero and
and Justin Fields has just given you his best game
in Week three? Right, How good was he? He's become
a viable fantasy starter for Week four.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
In the nfiare pick up, he was available in about
sixty five percent of leagues.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
He is not going to be deemed healthy. Until that's
the case, he's gonna be can continue to come into
practice and work and be limited, and we're gonna reevaluate
all the time, and he's not gonna be ready to go.
There's gonna continue to be things he's got to do
to prove that he can contind that he can play,
that he can start. We're not there yet. We're still
with Justin and they're just gonna ride this out as
(37:53):
long as again and kick that can down the road.
But believe me, he Russell Wilson if he could play,
I bet he could play right now. But he's not
gonna be healthy until Justin Fields falters, and if he's not,
then he won't ever really be healthy.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
No, there's no reason to rush it or create dissent,
controversy and get tongues wagon when you don't need to. Right,
this is all outside noise in the locker room. They're
three and oh there were all sorts of reports We've
had Glazer on talking about how much Arthur Smith loves him,
what Toman likes, what he's brought to the table, and
the fact that for Justin Fields, you've seen a number
(38:28):
of interviews smiling from ear to ear and this is
before the winning began. This goes back to training camp
of a guy who felt like he'd found his space
after all the uncertainty and chaos that is the Chicago Bears,
which still seems to be there in many, many ways
and forms. But we'll talk about that another time. But
you're three and oh, there's no reason to light that
(38:50):
fire and create the extra chaos because you saw that
even the follow up question, he got pissed. I told you,
I've been telling you. Own message is the same, and
I get it. I know it exactly right. He wants
to just keep going.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Everything is fine, but if I start making definitive plans
about a quarterback, then it becomes a thing. Right now,
it's okay, Russ is still working, Justin's playing well. We
ask every week. Everything is fine now eventually because the
rubber's gonna hit the road, But Tomlin is hoping. Okay,
Justin keeps the job right now and keeps going with
it and seizes it and goes.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
And in the end it's between the three of them
to try to figure it out. Right, And as long
as Russ is not gonna make noise, the only thing
you're seeing is a little bit of team love on
social media and talking about you know, love of faith,
et cetera. That's about as far as he's gone, right,
He's not putting anything else out there, and as long
as that stays positively and even if Fields has a
(39:48):
game or two that aren't clean, but they still get wus.
Guess what, there's no reason to blow things up.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
No, And remember what did I tell you when the
Steelers got Justin Fields. He's the best quarterback he's going
to wind up playing. If I knew, if I could
be confident that the Steelers were going to play him
from the beginning of the year, Steelers would go to
the AFC Championship. That's how much I liked him. Right,
I'll find the tweet put it out there. He I
remember say they they could go to the because their
(40:16):
team is loaded. Now the team is not quite as good.
But through three weeks, Justin Fields started all three games.
Could you see the Steelers in the ANFC title game.
They're one of the three best teams in the AFC
Easy Bill Steelers Chiefs Easy, They're one of the three
best teams.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Defense is going to keep in games. Welkin kick and
let's face it. Many of these games are coming down
to field goal kicking contests. Look in the NFL this year,
and this was the.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
First game where I could say, hey, Fields was the
gut was a difference in this game, Like they could
the first two games if Wilson played, they probably won those,
but this game, justin Field's the difference against them with.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Ashtag. You know what, we'll continue that trend tomorrow because boy,
the talking of the next twenty four hour is going
to get intense. And you've got Chris Sale on the
board for your team. I know, Mike Tomlin, I'm gonna
get after that.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
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Ben Maller podcast going up in a few minutes. Ben Maller,
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should be. The Padres and the Dodgers. It is over
in Chaves Ravine and Miguel Rojas is living When when
I was a kid was my biggest fear playing baseball.
Padres are up four to one over the Dodgers going
to the ninth inning. Okay, yeah, exactly, yeah, no, seriously, dude,
(01:14):
this was my worst nightmare when I was playing. When
I played baseball, I was a kid. Uh, Padres are
up for one. If they win, they clinch a playoff
berth and they were on their way, motoring through. But
then the ninth inning and the Dodgers start doing Dodger things.
Put some runners on base, they get a run. They
have first and second with nobody out. Okay, first and second,
(01:39):
nobody out. Miguel Rojas is up and show, hey, Otani's
on deck. Yeah, okay, so hey, nobody out. You got
Otani coming up at some point four to two. You're
feeling pretty good. And like Jason, we quote Jason Starkling
almost every night here on the show. He has always
said one of the things that will always stay with me.
Baseball's been around for one hundred and four forty years,
(02:00):
and we still say, I've never seen that before. Bases loaded,
nobody or first and second, nobody out. Ninth inning, Show Heyo,
tany on deck and this is what happened.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh, you didn't really think I was gonna play?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Come on, man, we gotta play it. You could, you
could close your ears, but we gotta play it.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Man. I mean, this is history. It's like.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Rojas on the ground a third, but shot o'touchers third, first.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
To second, come that first. Oh my godness, that's a
triple play. It hits the ball game.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
The San Diego Padres have clutched their spot of the
postseason after a magical twenty twenty four campaign.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Will this finally be the year for the faithful?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Nopeo Padre's radio network on the call, Miguel Rojas grounds
into a triple play. You don't see the ground into
a triple play that often. No, you had Hernandez single
to center right, so first and second. Now you made
a four to one game, four to two, and he
(03:07):
squared up to bunt on.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
The first pitch, did Rojas? Yeah, pull the bat back
now it's a one, and then hits the ground ball
and can't get down to first to beat it out
and give Otani a chance.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I mean, I really unbelievable. Look, it's stunning when I'm
watching it. At the end of a few minutes ago,
we were we were talking about I'm going, did I
just see a walk off triple play?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I almost stopped talking. I was watching the replay, going,
what the hell that was a walk off triple play?
Oh my goodness, to clinch a playoff, Right, that's a
job about dropping down to the desk. Man, I'm speaking
to you, so I'm looking at you and I've got it,
you know, one eye on the monitor. It's like, wait,
did I really? And then they review it at second base?
(03:50):
Right did he slide it? Now, ball's there, caught foots
on the bag, not neighborhood play or anything else. Uh
and he and he throws him out, And it's just
that moment and you can feel the the gasp and
the excited utterances from our guy Frostburg and from the
other Dodger fans walking around the Fox Sports radio studios
(04:10):
here in southern California. But I mean, just absolutely amazing
with Otani where they just did a whole thing of him,
you know, bouncing around the the on deck circle like
a cat waiting for his time, looking at his shot back.
That's what hurts more than the triple play, even thought
that he was on desk. Even if he hit into
a double play, you're still Tony coming, You still runner on. Yes,
(04:31):
just hit into it. Be a team player, Rojas headwear
get the first man just hit into a double. But
it's a ground ball to third where he's able to
take how many steps two three steps to get to
the bag before he turns and fires to second base.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
This is this is why I want to see the
ISO of Rojas getting down to.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
First, getting out of the box.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
It is a sharply hit grounder, but still Machado makes
this play a good couple of feet in front of
third base, and he kind of he catches it, and
he sort of takes a split second to decide.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, he moves like a turtle right, but not on this,
not on this play, and this and extremely slow man
and a split second to decide, and he has to
take two steps back to step on third. If this
was sharp grinder, I catch the ball and I'm stepping
on third in one motion. Hey, you get a triple play.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Now, Rojas is a right handed batter, so he's not
lefty getting out of the box. But you had Machado
take two steps back to third, fires over to second
like this was a bullet that barely got the runner
at second, and the throw to first, like Roass was
it was almost beat him by a half a step,
(05:44):
like it wasn't even close at first.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
The closer play was at.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Se second where they awed it because that say to
do they stopped us in the previous play is under review,
and I'm like he was out at first about Rojas
second base was the closer play and and it wasn't out,
Like the correct call was made all the way around,
and Miguel Rojas grounds into a game ending triple play.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Stuff you've never seen before and you'll never see again.
Clinch a playoffs amazing and the ending on playoffs as
a result, you know, against the rival, Yeah, on their field,
all right enough, And that's how it. Two of them
we've seen. We've already set it up for America.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
When you you know, when you say twenty twenty four
and I think about you know, I always think about boys.
Stuff I've seen this year in baseball that I've never seen.
This is why I love baseball, even though Knights like
to Mike when the Mets lose. Uh, you know, it's
as I think about stuff like that was a long
time ago. But yeah, like I'll think about this moment
being on the air and just being gobsmacked with did
I just see a game? Did he just ground into
(06:44):
a triple play? I'll think about this play, and I'll
think about the play where The Mets won the second
game of the London series a two to three double
play to end the game where where it was a
swinging butt with the bases loaded and tourns. The catcher
gets it in front of the plate, steps on the
plate and throws a first Like when do you ever
see a two three double play?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You never do right? And it was really you know,
it was.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
A London series, so I had a lot of attention
and then this play tonight here, I really, I mean
the way to lose games and win games like this,
it's amazing. But I really want to see Rojas and
how he got down the line, because there's there's no
we gota. Yeah, get Kurt Warner. He'll he'll watch film
with us and we'll show him exactly what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Like I want to know, like did he stumble? Did
he slip? Did he really?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Did he dog it a little bit getting out of
the box, because there's no way that Machado should have
been able to catch the ball quickly, decide, decide, but
decide quickly take two steps back to step on the
base and then a great throw, a great relay the
second and first. But that shouldn't happen there, There's there's
no way that should happen.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
No, not a major leaguer. And again the the execution
and not getting a bunt down, not sticking with bunting
right situational baseball. Again, even if you make me out
at the play, you know, with a fouled third strike
on a bunt, still only one out and the bat's
still as the lead run. All you to do is
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not hit into a triple play. And Otani was coming up.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
If you said to me, hey, Jason, you could put
all your your daughter's future education on the fact that
Otani would bat.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Would get Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, what what's he gonna do?
Hit into a triple Oh? No, Dodgs.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
No, they thought they were due. Dodd had hit into
a triple play in ten years.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Ten years. I mean, you don't ground grounding triple plays.
You don't get man, that doesn't happen. No, this is
just insane. I'm with you, though, I want to see
the Rojas iso. I don't after the swing. I know
you don't, because I see we can't undo it.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Okay, it's this, he's slower than If you're slower than Machado,
you're really really slow.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Machada is the fastest one on that plane now has
when we confirmed that Machado's or we just confirmed that
times he gives you less than the above. Yeah, I
was I was going to say more the efforts side
of it than anything else, but yeah, this is absurd.
I I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And honestly, when I was playing baseball when I was
a kid, this was my worst fear because I was
really slow running. Non I hated running. I was now
I was, I was slow. Maybe that's why I hated running.
Also because running sucks. Right again, Matt Damon from the
end of air, What am I doing? This is just stupid.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I don't understand, and it might be the funniest bit
of a movie since Step Brothers. This is just stupid.
Why would anybody do this?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And the crazy thing is is that when I meet
I know a lot of people who run, and like
when I first meet them and they want to talk sports,
like you know, they feel like, oh, I could talk
running with you, and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Folks our age seem to have really gotten into that.
I'm like running phase, like that's somehow gonna extend their life,
like twenty years or something.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I want to say, I understand that you run, but
I'm dude, that's the worst thing in the world. That
is the ad Why would anybody run when you don't
have to. I don't understand I ran when I played sports.
I love running playing sport. Why would you run if
you didn't have to? I mean, I'd rather ride a
bike or do that or walk not Why would I run?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Why running? Is running is just stupid? Again?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Why this is just dumb? Why am I doing this?
But that was always my biggest feats because so slow.
And that's why, you know, when I was See, here's
the thing, all right, tyser?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You got my music?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Story music? Yeah, my story music ready? All right, let's
I have my story music ready? Is that when I
was a kid and the sports I played, the big
sports I played were baseball, hockey, and football. Now, hockey,
I was actually I was actually pretty fast skater, which
surprised me because I'm like, I'm slow as crap and
everything else. But I'm I'm an okay skater. But I
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was a great offensive player anyway. Uh playing football and
playing baseball, I was short and I was slow. Now
I couldn't make it in football because even though I
was a good tackler, like.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
You can make to get there. You can make it
if you're small, if you're fast, and you can make
it if you're slow, if you're big.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But I was short and I was slow, and so
it was really difficult and baseball running was the worst part.
We I still I think I might have PTSD. We
did a drill once where the coach wanted us to
run and he had us all like like within a
few feet at each other in the infield and uh
like on the base pass and he said, I'm gonna
say go, and everybody runs until they catch the person
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in front of them, and and if you don't catch
person in front of you, keep running. And I'm like,
as soon as he said, I said, I'm gonna be
the last one here. I'm never catching anybody. I'm not
I'm just not doing it. I'm okay, and we go,
and of course the guy in front of me happened
to be fast. I'm like, I'm not catching him, so.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
He just turn and tackle him and says see.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So he said go, and we all went and we
were all running and like most of it's over within
like twenty five seconds, but like at the end. It
was me between first and second and the guy the
only the last guy was between third and home and
and he's he's and he's like laughing because it look
how far away I am from him. He knows I'm
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not catching him, and more likely he would catch me
before I would catch him. And I'm doing it, and
the coach goes and this is the only time I was, Oh,
here's my music. Good, here's my music, and still clearing.
You know, I was always a coachable kid, right, I
was always coachable because I always, you know, I just was.
Maybe that's why I became a coach. I was always
a coachable kid. And he's doing he said, okay, keep going,
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and I just looked at him and I just stopped
and I said it's over. I said it's over. And
I think then he realized that, oh wow, oh this
kind of really embarrassed him. Okay, and you didn't get
mad at me, didn't make me run laps or anything else.
But I think he knew.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
But I just looked at him, and I'm a fourteen
year old kid, and I just looked at him and
I said it's over. Now, it's over.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And I walked off and I walked off the field,
and I think everybody else was having fun realized, oh yeah,
somebody who's gonna finish last? And now this because it's
not like I dogged it and it's not like I
didn't run. I went all the way until I said,
I'm not catching anybody. And there were like twelve of
us on the field and now we're down to two,
and I'm like, I'm not doing it. When I would
when I would bat, I would just say to my
because I would always hit, and I would have that
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fear sometimes I would go, if I rip a groundball
to the third baseman and he steps on the bag,
I'm gonna ground into a triple play?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Did you just lean? No?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
But I was too good of a hitter that that,
you know, But I still had that fear. No, sure,
as I headed to the outfield. But I still have
that fear that if I do that, I'm grounding in
a triple play and that's gonna be and I don't
know if I can ever play baseball after that. Like
that was my worst fear that I ever had in
my life. And I watched Rojast do it and go,
that's that's he just lived out my worst.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Did you just tell him that he should retire?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
No, no, what I'm saying, Well, maybe maybe maybe he
shouldn't pinch run for anybody. That's probably, but maybe maybe
other things. But pinch running might not be your thing.
It might not be your thing. Oh, I still can't
believe it. A walk off triple play. Grounder exit out
about a Fresco exit swollen down the Jason Smith Show
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Speaker 2 (14:00):
I'm really kind of digging the music.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, Garing get that we'll have more reaction on this
play coming up next, as well as the quarterback derby
in the NFL that we're all watching, hoping, praying.
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It'll be over one day, but still it's not over.
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Speaker 1 (16:00):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
You know, before we get to that big NFL story,
I do have to say, look, I feel for Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Oh it's the worst, grounding into a triple play to
end the game, can't get a bunt down.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
And it's like the more I see this play, the
further Manny Machado is from third base every time.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I know it does seem that way, doesn't it. Because
I just saw the replay up on one of our
monitors again and it was just like it really was
it really three steps to the base to step on
the turn and fired a second yes, and to pound
the glove like he took the se split second d second.
It was heroic. And then he threw a laser down
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the second look and I told just gonna come in
here and kicking he lived.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
That was my nightmare as a kid. As I said
a few minutes ago, was grounding running you dude, I couldn't.
I was so slow, I was so amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
We're getting you a shirt that says run like Rojas.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
And then the picture is him just just falling shorter
first base and that's about right.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
But I did.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I do want to say this right, because you know,
I never grounded triple play. But one of my worst
memories was I once I once, uh, do you want
to do? You want a Frostburg? All right, let's go.
We want to hear from ud Dave Roberts is talking
about the triple play.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Let's I mean, you just you know, there's less than
a one percent chance that show Hey doesn't come to bat,
and unfortunately that per small percentage came to came into
play situation. No, no, I mean I don't think that
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you can. You have to. You know, it's first and
second base, nobody out. Certainly the tying run is on
first base. You bun into that play, the first base
was out. I just don't think that you're expecting a
triple play. Hit the ball hard, and I just can't play.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You can't, you can't. What are you gonna say? Tap
dance around this? Wea what are you gonna say at
this point? Right?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
What are you gonna say it's a nightmare, man, it's
a night it's a nightmare for the Dodgers. It's a
nightmare for Roha.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And now I'm reliving all the worst parts of my
baseball life. Is that one time, and when we played
thirteen year olds, we played on a much bigger field.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
It was weird.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
This was my because again I was so slow, but
I could hit. I was a great I was a
really good player. I was just slow. And we played
on this field that it was ninety feet down to
first base as thirteen.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Year olds like.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
So it was way too big for us. But that
was our field. And but the outfield was shorter. The
way the field was was it was a really short
right field into center field and then it was a
deep left field left because there was a creak behind.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Okay, good, they can only build it so far. But
when you're thirteen, there's not many left handed batters, and
not many people are are are hitting are hitting home
runs over the fence and right field right if you're
hitting it right all we're all right handed batters. So
now center field and in right field are a little
bit closer to second bag, to the bases than it
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is right not to make an excuse. And we were
playing a game against this team, and the pitcher was
a really good fastball pitcher, so everybody was kind of
playing him. So the outfield was playing a little bit
to not pull. So they're playing a little bit towards
right field anyway. And I always love fastballs. I'm like, yeah,
give me fastball. Hit it when it's when the curveballs
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and the.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Sliders couldn't hit it, couldn't lay off it, right, So
this could Tony Peppy that was his name, Tony really yeah,
Tony Peppy. And he threw a really hard fastball. He
had a nice where he had a nice rising fastball.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You have to yeah, and he's through a rising fastball
and I just smacked it line drive, really hard over
the second baseman's head and one bounce and I'm not
even halfway up the line, and the center fielder has
the ball on his glove and I throw you out
and I just said, oh no, and I'm like, maybe
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I'll get lucky. He'll throw the ball back in. No,
the kid in center field was pretty good saw it
and he threw to first base and he got me
by like a step and I get back in the dugout.
I remember one of my teammates, Anthony Pocozzi, Anthy Pocozi.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
He says to me, that's the first eight three I've
seen in a long time, and I said, yeah, yeah,
and I get the coach with your helmet at But
like if it was a regular field, I wouldn't have
hit and do it. But it's still I hit a
lot and i'd ripped it. I still I can still
feel it because it didn't he I didn't feel it
coming off my bad head that hard, and it was
in one way out. It was a rocket and one
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bounce and the center fielder had it and I'm going, oh, no, no,
and I'm running as fast as I can of the band.
I'm just not fast, And of course he makes a
great throw which is not really far because again the
field's a little bit closer, and he throws me out
on the fly, like that's how close it was. He
could throw a fly to third base and I was
out and I was at first base, and I'm just like,
I don't want to play again. I'm done. I'm done.
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I want to go home. I want to go home
and never play again, I'm done. I fit.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I think that was the moment I realized I'm never
gonna play shortstop for the Mets.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
My life is Jason Mason Begs. Not gonna happen, because
you know what I would say, how dare this guy
get thrown out in an eight three? Oh, I'll be
the guy talking about the games. Okay, that's me, that's
what I do. How do you get thrown out? Eight three?
Eight seven seven eight three? That's the first eight three
I've seen in a long time. Man. And the thing is,
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the kid playing center field was a better pitcher than
Tony Peppy TC and he just didn't pitch against us.
He had a great curve ball slider. Like this kid
was as good. You didn't see him like he was,
Like he became a star pitcher in high school. This
is their second pitcher.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
L had a really good team, and like this guy,
he's all he throws his gas and I'm like, okay,
I'm fine, I'm fine with this guy. But I'm as
soon as I hit that, I'm like, oh no, oh
no no no, no, no, no no no no. Throw
me out of first base by about a step. Wasn't
even close, Like I think the umpire would have given
me the benefit I did. I would give you the
benefit of the doubt, but you were out.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
There is another little sequence in the animated series of
Little Jason that was tough putting together.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Was tough, But Lee, I think I've been able to
live with it. I lived with it at the time
because it was the field, like if it was just
a normal baseball field, that wouldn't have happened like it
probably would have been in the gap and I probably
would have had a double, But instead, because of the
field that he was playing me a little bit that
I wasn't out.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
A pull it. How many weeks or months did it
take to get you to that conclusion, because you did
not do that overnight? Oh oh, I don't know. Probably no.
How many hats did you give it away? At my
time you left that I was thirteen at that point. No, no, no,
I mean later on, because this is a process. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I think in the in the end, after a while,
maybe how long do you maybe a few days?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I just you know what the field was like.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I think the coach told me that too, said, you know,
if we're playing a regular field that met ball's probably
the fence because he hit one. The center fielder is
not getting to it. But he goes, but they did
have you shaded? I said, no, I hit it right
to him. He goes, but I mean, what am I
gonna say?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
You hit it.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
That's the hardest ball that anybody's hit in the last
few weeks on our team.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
And then he tapped you on his shoulder and said,
get run and said and then he said, sit down.
You're coming out of the game. What do you want
for me an apology? Forget it? So I'm taking you
out of the game. I want you to sit out.
What do you want for me to apology? I'm not
giving you one bump I want you. I'm taking you
out of the game. Bump, You're coming out of the game.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
So my heart's out to Miguel Ross because I know
exactly what he's saying, Like thirteen, This is forty years ago,
and I can still see I can still see that play.
I can still see TC just turning and just flinging
it into into.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
The first basement. Of course he's got to make a
great h howd he just laid down the bunt? No,
that's right, see would you?
Speaker 6 (23:47):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
No? I love how Dave Roberts says that was never
an option. Yeah, if that's not an option, the guy
shouldn't be easysuld pinch hit for it. Hey, Dave, you
know what's not an option? A triple play that's really
not grounding in to the damn Padres. Well, that's the
other part of this, right in a in a vacuum
ground to get into a triple play is really really dead. No, No,
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the other party on deck and again that hurts. They
had this long sequence right and we don't. We're in
the studio so we don't have the the audio up
obviously as we're doing the show. But they they stay
on Otani for a while. Yeah, it pitches so like
you know what's all about wow otonic it is. It's
it's like a and you know, September script ready to go.
(24:34):
Here we go. It's four to two and there's Otani
and he's gonna get up to bat against the hated
Padres and blah blah blah, and then that never gets
to happen.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
You know what I want to see, in addition to
seeing how fast Row hosted or didn't get down the line,
is I want to see Otani's reaction after the triple
play because I kept thinking, like when's Laton played for
La Galaxy, right, Like one of his favorite things to
do was like if the Galaxy had a big play
offensively and he didn't have the ball, and he would
get into the box ready, and if the pass went
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over his head or it got cut off and went
the other way, his Laton would just stop, look at
his teammate and stretch his arms out, like what are
you doing?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
How did you not get me the ball? Like that's
completely your fault, Like he would do that. He was
like nobody was better at saying this is your fault.
And Laton liked, did O'tani do that? Like Rohas gets
thrown out at first and O'tani just drops the bat
and puts his arms out like you know I'm on deck, right,
you know I'm coming. You had one job. You know
I'm going. You're just tending a game to me. You
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just had to.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Make sure I get into that batter's box standing on
this great dirt with my bat and was able to
pit back.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
That's all you had to do. You had one job.
You had one job.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
The real question, guys, is how much the misaharror make
off that triple play.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
See I had another epay reference Holster nicely man.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
If that if that game ending walk off triple play
ever hits, I'm gonna be a rich man. I bet
that every night later on this week. What's a what's
a game ending triple play?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
We'll get the odds. Gotta get up at the at
the counter.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I bet a game ending triple play in a baseball
game every single night, and it finally hits, and I
forgot to bet it and go Rojas post game?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
You ready for this? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Go, I feel like I let the team down. You're
damn right you did. Is that what the reporter senators saying?
That's what I said. I feel like I let the
team down.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Yeah, And look and it is a great night because
we welcome justin Frostburg back off the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Uh, do you really feel like this is a good idea?
You're coming back tonight? No, I'm never coming back again.
That's it. He's like, I'll see after we win the
World Series. I'm done. I'm done. I can't do that.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Triple ending triple play that end of the game to
get the Padres into the postseason.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, that is a sign from from whoever it is upstairs. Man,
I gotta go. That's a lot, that's a convergence to
a lot of stuff, because that's the thing, right, It's
all of that and the padres Yeah, write any other
nameless face. Yeah, with on deck. I think let's get
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his reaction as told to you by you know what
we need to do.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I bet you we could start like remember when uh
uh uh uh uh uh Jim Joyce made the bad
call under Scalaga and everybody started a a uh a Twitter.
I mean with the hashtag uh Jim Joyce, what was it?
What what Jim Joyce uh said safe for something like that,
(27:39):
and people would would uh would say their own thing
with the hashtag Jim Joyce says it's safe. Like you
would say, like, hey, I didn't want to eat that
that green meat that came out of the vending machine,
but Jim Joyce says it's safe, right, And everybody would
say that you know I didn't you know, I didn't
want to get in that car with the uh with
the guy with the meat cleaver, but you know, uh,
(28:01):
Jim Joyce says it's safe. Could we start something like
that and make our hashtag with Otani on deck, I.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Like that, Yeah, let's do that. Boy, was really bad
that I forgot to that.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I forgot to guess up in my car and I
ran out of gas on the freeway and the four
oh five came to a stop with Otani on deck,
right like, like, did that work?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Do you want to talk about the easiest hour ever since?
I mean, they've had a couple of them here, uh
in caller driven radio here AM five seven E l
A Sports. You had the beatdown of U C l
A a couple of weeks ago, uh, to where it's
just all right, rant away this one after this Dodger loss.
(28:43):
I can only imagine what the uh A lot of
a lot of tongues flapping off of this one with
Otani on deck.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Deck It's like the Fortune Cookie where everything ends in
bed deck.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, deck with on deck, boy, I tell you, I
really hated the with Otani on deck.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Man, I'm telling you that was that was really really difficult.
So again, I mean, we don't we don't see this
that often. Uh So now to give us more details
on what's trending in the wide world of sports, A man,
we used to call mister triple play here at Fox
Sports Radio because he would work three shifts during the
week and get paid for one. It's Isaac Lohenkron. What's
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trending on deck? I was only worth one? What's trending?
Among other things triple play and Miguel Rojas don't check
your mentions among the current comments. Cut Miguel Rojas, please DFA,
Miguel Rojas, WTF and then just Jim and his robots posting.
(29:53):
In my forty plus years of watching baseball, I don't
think I need two hands to count the number of
triple plays I've seen.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
What a fluke ending.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
Okay, he apparently has seen a lot of triple plays
in his forty year career. And the reason that Miguel
Rojas and triple play is trending. The San Diego Padres
holding a four to two lead over the Dodgers in
the bottom of the ninth inning, the Dodgers rattling already
one run across. They had runners at first and second,
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nobody out time run at first? Show Hey Otani on deck,
Miguel Rojas of the Dodgers at the plate, and here's
what happened on k WFN.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Nothing and one swinging away grab balla machado, he hits third.
That's one, goes to second in time? What the first?
Hot triple play? Hot triple play and the ball game
is over.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
The Padres clinch a postseason berth.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Yeah whatever, five four three triple play.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
That was actually from the livest our justin Frossburg was
so incensed that he instantly bent the laws of physics,
ran from here into the Padres radio booth and yelled
over their radio broadcast, and then ran back here. Good sweet,
And mcguel still hasn't ran the first. They're timing him
(31:24):
with a sundial anyway, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
And I will say this, really, I mean, the people
aren't saying this is that triple play pretty much took
the Dodgers right out of the inning.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
People aren't talking about that.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
And it also took their leader of the Padres for
first place in the National League West from three down
to two. The Houston Astros over the Seattle Mariners Tuesday night,
four to three to clinch the AL West for a
fourth straight year seventh time in the last eight years.
Orioles over the Yankees five to three despite Aaron Judges
fifty sixth throm run. Yankees missed a chance to clinch
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the Al East, but the Orioles clinched a post season
birth and finally, the Chicago White Sox rallied for three
runs at the bottom of the eighth thing to beat
the Angels three to two, avoiding a record one hundred
and twenty first loss. Now Jason and Mike before the
White Sox made that dramatic comeback, when they were staring
that historic one hundred and twenty first loss right in
(32:17):
the face, in the face, in the face in the face,
someone used the occasion to post the following message on
the stadium video board. Veronica, will you marry me?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Boy?
Speaker 7 (32:30):
No word yet on what Veronica's answer was, So I'll
leave you with this. Is that kind of a red
flag when you get proposed to at a twenty twenty
four White Sox home game? Is it strangely admirable or
is that.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Like a big red flag?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
No, no, I think you've already won in the fact
that she agreed to go to said game. Good point.
That's loyalty. She's already shown the loyalty dedication. Hootspa, let
us know. Veronica.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
Back to you guys.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
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from thee Tirack dot Com Studios. U We'll have more
reaction from the walkoff triple play. Plus we get to
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Speaker 3 (33:20):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 2 (33:31):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon,
My upsuck special Live from the Tirack dot Com Studios.
And uh, look as we still reel from the triple
the walkoff triple play, the padres No, it hurt me
really badly. The quarterback derby that we thought would be over.
(33:58):
With the Pittsburgh Steelers and Justin Fields and Russell Wilson
still is going on right even after Justin Fields had
a big day in Week three, his best day with
the Steelers yet first couple of weeks. Yes, game managing,
but did make some plays with his legs. Sunday was
a big game, had the big touchdown pass, made some
big runs. Clearly this is his job. But Mike Tomlin
(34:25):
doesn't want.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
To actually give the job to Justin Fields. He just
wants to say that, well, Justin's got the job for now,
and there's no reason for you to make an absolute
statement about any of this.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
He went right at it. I mean, after three start,
I mean, you're gonna be fired up. It is bold.
Was he talking about Russ.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Here?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
He was talking about why he's not naming a starting quarterback.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I'm sorry, it said Mike Tomlin on I know, yeld.
So apparently how it's gonna go, We're gonna get both
of those. Yeah, Mike Tomlin, I'm gonna get half of
that ass whatever. Oh that's what he said. Hey, you
did you get that? Three Tomlins? But he can't edit that.
(35:17):
That's a triple play. He can't edit that that fast.
So instead, really, here's Mike tom you doubt me, Here's
Mike Tomlin. You doubted me, here's Mike.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I'm good. You're getting Tomlin. Now, really, and.
Speaker 8 (35:28):
Russ gets to an appropriate point of health and we
have a decision to make. I'll make it and i'll
announce it and I'll be really transparent about it. But
until then, I don't care. How many ways you guys
ask me, I got no intentions of making the decision
that's unnecessary at this juncture.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
What more you need to see from Justin Why not
name him the.
Speaker 8 (35:44):
Starting quarterback on because there's no need. I explained to
you the variables of the week. It has not changed.
He's gonna walk in this building with that mindset tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I like that he went up the register there. Now
there's no need. I told you there's no need, no need.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
I don't know if you're talking to Mike went on
to say this, Mike Tomlin gets whatever.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
That you challenged him.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Look, uh, here's the thing, and congratulations for people who
wanted to steal that take that we told you about
a week ago.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Cam Newton.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Uh, he told you a week ago. Russell Wilson is
not going to be healthy. As long as Justin Fields
is playing well, he is not going to be deemed
healthy and ready to come back and play quarterback. This
is why Mike Tomlin is being evasive. I don't want
to annoint Justin Fields because if Justin Field stinks and
I want to go back to Russ it's a thing,
and I want to protect Russell Wilson again. Find someone
(36:40):
who loves you as much as Mike Tomlin loves Russell Wilson.
I want to protect his image and make it seem
like he's still the guy, and we're just taking everything
game by game. It's Justin Fields's job right now. If
a couple of games go by and Fields is bad
and the Steelers lose, yeah, then he'll they say, I
want to go back. Russ is finally magically healthy, but
(37:00):
he's not gonna be healthy until Justin Field starts playing poorly.
And if Justin Fields doesn't play poorly, it's gonna get
to a point where we really can't make the change.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Things are going well.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Russ's fied like week eight, like Russ is finally gonna
be hey, he can finally do things like I don't
doubt he could play right now, But you're not gonna
change quarterbacks to Your team is three and zero and
and Justin Fields has just given you his best game
in Week three? Right, How good was he? He's become
a viable fantasy starter for Week four.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
In the nfiare pick up, he was available in about
sixty five percent of leagues.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
He is not going to be deemed healthy. Until that's
the case, he's gonna be can continue to come into
practice and work and be limited, and we're gonna reevaluate
all the time, and he's not gonna be ready to go.
There's gonna continue to be things he's got to do
to prove that he can contind that he can play,
that he can start. We're not there yet. We're still
with Justin and they're just gonna ride this out as
(37:53):
long as again and kick that can down the road.
But believe me, he Russell Wilson if he could play,
I bet he could play right now. But he's not
gonna be healthy until Justin Fields falters, and if he's not,
then he won't ever really be healthy.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
No, there's no reason to rush it or create dissent,
controversy and get tongues wagon when you don't need to. Right,
this is all outside noise in the locker room. They're
three and oh there were all sorts of reports We've
had Glazer on talking about how much Arthur Smith loves him,
what Toman likes, what he's brought to the table, and
the fact that for Justin Fields, you've seen a number
(38:28):
of interviews smiling from ear to ear and this is
before the winning began. This goes back to training camp
of a guy who felt like he'd found his space
after all the uncertainty and chaos that is the Chicago Bears,
which still seems to be there in many, many ways
and forms. But we'll talk about that another time. But
you're three and oh, there's no reason to light that
(38:50):
fire and create the extra chaos because you saw that
even the follow up question, he got pissed. I told you,
I've been telling you. Own message is the same, and
I get it. I know it exactly right. He wants
to just keep going.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Everything is fine, but if I start making definitive plans
about a quarterback, then it becomes a thing. Right now,
it's okay, Russ is still working, Justin's playing well. We
ask every week. Everything is fine now eventually because the
rubber's gonna hit the road, But Tomlin is hoping. Okay,
Justin keeps the job right now and keeps going with
it and seizes it and goes.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
And in the end it's between the three of them
to try to figure it out. Right, And as long
as Russ is not gonna make noise, the only thing
you're seeing is a little bit of team love on
social media and talking about you know, love of faith,
et cetera. That's about as far as he's gone, right,
He's not putting anything else out there, and as long
as that stays positively and even if Fields has a
(39:48):
game or two that aren't clean, but they still get wus.
Guess what, there's no reason to blow things up.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
No, And remember what did I tell you when the
Steelers got Justin Fields. He's the best quarterback he's going
to wind up playing. If I knew, if I could
be confident that the Steelers were going to play him
from the beginning of the year, Steelers would go to
the AFC Championship. That's how much I liked him. Right,
I'll find the tweet put it out there. He I
remember say they they could go to the because their
(40:16):
team is loaded. Now the team is not quite as good.
But through three weeks, Justin Fields started all three games.
Could you see the Steelers in the ANFC title game.
They're one of the three best teams in the AFC
Easy Bill Steelers Chiefs Easy, They're one of the three
best teams.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Defense is going to keep in games. Welkin kick and
let's face it. Many of these games are coming down
to field goal kicking contests. Look in the NFL this year,
and this was the.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
First game where I could say, hey, Fields was the
gut was a difference in this game, Like they could
the first two games if Wilson played, they probably won those,
but this game, justin Field's the difference against them with.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Ashtag. You know what, we'll continue that trend tomorrow because boy,
the talking of the next twenty four hour is going
to get intense. And you've got Chris Sale on the
board for your team. I know, Mike Tomlin, I'm gonna
get after that.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
As from Mike Tom Jason Coming up next, my buddy
Ben Maller podcast going up in a few minutes. Ben Maller,
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