October 3, 2024 • 39 mins
On tonight’s edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike look into the Yankees and Dodgers path to the world series highlighting their best- and worst-case scenarios. Finally, the guys look at the possibility of former NBA Insider Adrian Wojnarowski possibly making a move to the NFL??? Don’t miss all this and more in the third hour!
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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the action of Major League Baseball is over Padres, eliminating
the Braves five to four.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
They win the opening round.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Series in a sweep.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Sin we have gone to the extra playoff round the
best two out of three. Every team that has won
Game one has won the series. In fact, only once
has a series gone to three games. Well, the New
York Mets said will take care of that. They lose
a knight to the Brewers. So they head to Game
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three tomorrow, and I have an awful, awful feeling about that,
Like I've already accepted. I'm gonna We're gonna come on
the air tomorrow night at the end of the game
be talking about the football game and Baker Mayfield and
Bjon Robinson and why they don't give him the ball
more and all this suff and it's gonna be I'm
gonna just watch the end of the Mets season, just drip, drip,
drip away.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I've already accepted it. And that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I think It's a gift that I have as a
sports fan is that I can accept that when my
team not only is it something that it doesn't sit
with me, but I accept it before it actually happens.
And I think that's a gift.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
You had to bellow out a couple of bars of
let it go, let it go while you're at it. Look,
I've already admitted to the fact that for tomorrow, just
positive or negatively, I'm bringing in something with chocolate because
it'll either make you feel better if it all goes
to hell, because we'll also be watching, you know, Falcons, bucketeers,
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on a Thursday night. On a Thursday night, Hey, yoh,
divisional football, let's go. But especially with the way the
Falcons are going, so we can sit and read mean
tweets about Kyle Pitts and djonn Robinson from angry fantasy
owners all night if we need to.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
But yeah, it's it's it's gonna be a day.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I have no doubt you'll be pacing the floor later
on this evening. You'll be up. Maybe you take Benny
for a midnight walk and trying to clear your head.
Maybe you're walking along the beach and trying to think
of what went wrong in your fan Now.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'm just I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'm just gonna stress until four o'clock tomorrow's I mean, I.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Did appreciate how you went since they got to this format,
no team that one game one is ever lost.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
That was good. Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I do appreciate how you got your positive spin. But
then you went and spiraled in a bad direction. Let's
see if we're still saying that tomorrow at this time.
Let's see if we're still saying that tomorrow. Does that
record hold up? We'll see, Let's see.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Stay with us twenty four hours from now.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
But we did talk about the the in game interview
with Garrett Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Boy, people are pissed.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah yeah, there's already articles all over the web, including
the New York Post that puts their unique spin on it,
as always, But the fact that they did this interview
with Mitchell as the ninth inning started to unfold. The
editorial choice there is one that MLB fans are not
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going to be so quick to forget.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I also think if it was a one run game,
maybe not, but a two run game, and then they
can always dump out and get back to the action
when they need to, Like if Lindora had gotten a
hit suddenly, Okay, with a two run game, I can
see it. Look, I thought it was kind of I
thought it was kind of interesting. Hey, we're an in
game interview with a guy that just hit a big
home run.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You know, I was okay.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I mean, I wasn't happy that it happened against the Mets,
but I was.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I was.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I was okay with that happening then. But yeah, you know,
never take me away from the action. But let's just
say you miss a home run, right, Let's say Lindor
hits a home run, Okay, it's it's you're still down
a run, right, so so the game So now, okay, hey,
thanks for stopping bye with us, appreciate everything. We're going
back up to the booth, all right, and then then
you get the rest of the game. But if it
was a one run game, no, I'm with you because
you could you could miss something really big and now
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what I've set a lot of people, but two runs,
that's okay.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
You got plenty of time to talk to Garrett Mitchell. Yeah,
that's all I can say is you got plenty of time.
I always post.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I always tell my wife for the last thirty years,
I've told her if there's like if we're on vacation
or something and there's a big game going on something
that you know, do you need to watch it? Do
you need to Like if the Mets are playing in
a big game, we're on vacation, the Jets are playing
in a big game. But we're on vacation, we're away somewhere,
and I'm we're not on the air. And I just said, yeah, no,
it's okay, I can I can. I can miss the game.
She's really missed the game. And I go, yeah, I said, well,
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look if they win, I'll be happy, and if they lose,
I'll be happy. I didn't sit and watch it, so okay,
so I'm gonna vacate. I mean, I don't need it's
it's Sunday. I don't need to. I'm not talking again
about sports for another week. We're all good.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Now, let me just tell you this, because it's time
to give a couple of guys credit that I don't
know this one, that one of them I've ever given
credit to. But it's time now because they have both
clearly shown that they have matured and they have turned
into bona fide superstars that you no longer need to
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attach a yeah butt with Sam Stop Sam Darnak. They're
gonna sack him fifty times this weekend.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And the first one is tonight, and it's Manny Machado.
Manny Machado has had an incredible run since signing with
San Diego. He's the nominee their nominee for Roberto Clementy
Man of the Year Award. He does a lot of
stuff in the community.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
ROBERTA.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Clemeny exemplifies that, you know, being role models in baseball.
He is someone who has stayed away from controversy. Has
not gotten involved in anything that you can say it's
divisive with the team like he was with the Dodgers,
or I'm not Johnny Hustle, I'm not this kind of guy. Well,
you know, when he was in Baltimore when there were
a lot of complaints, are kind of looking sideways at
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him a little bit. Since he has been with San Diego,
he has been a really terrific player. And look, you
saw the play he made to start the triple play
last week, and that throw to second base, which was
one of the best throws you'll ever see him stepping
on third going a second as good as he is
as a third baseman as we've seen in Major League Baseball,
and he is someone who has matured a lot in
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the last few years. He stayed away from the big headlines.
His teammates all say wonderful things about him. That wasn't
always the case. And look, sometimes everybody gets to it
at a different point in their career. And you know,
some guys come up and it takes them a couple
of years to mature, but by the time they're twenty five,
twenty six, they kind of get it. You know, some
people it takes him till they're thirty. Some people they
never get that point. You know, like Caitlin Clark. When
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I see her talk, that seems like she's thirty five
years old, right. She understands what's going on. She's very
self aware. You see that from athletes, right. You see
it right away with many superstars and they come into
a league and go, wow, this guy really understands stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Lebron came in, He really understood stuff when he talked, right.
You see it with a lot of big superstars. Steph
Curry all the same way when he came in, you
saw he's someone that can handle this. And the maturity
levels of these athletes, and Manny Machada was at that
level and he is there right now. And for him
and the other guy that hasn't played, I got to
give a lot of credit to Bryce Harper, right, I've
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never never done that before, but over the last few
years with Philadelphia, he is also matured. He was a hothead.
Earlier in his career. He was someone that was very unlikable.
You just watch the way he played the game. And
while you know he loved the game, he still was
very irksome. The way he would do things. He would
hit a fly ball to right field that would be
a home run. He would smash his bat, he would
get mad, he would get very emotional. But now since
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he's become a filly, he has directed that into the
right places. Right. He's a great teammate. His teammates all
say glowing things about him. You see him on the field,
they follow his lead. He leads by example. His emotion
is now in the right place, and he pushes it
towards the positivity of his team. He has also matured
a lot, and he's a great ambassador for baseball. And
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just watching him in at bats, you can see his
demeanor as different. Doesn't show up the umpire, doesn't do
a lot of things that earlier in his career he
did right. I called him Bieber Harper for a long time.
It's kind of what he was like. But Manny Machado
and Bryce Harper have both really matured the last few years.
And I got to give them credit because they have
become these full fledged superstars where it's hey, we can
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talk about these guys on the field and how great
they are, and you know anything that's hey. But this
is a bit of a distraction for me when when
he does this and this happens, that's no longer the
case with either of these guys.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Yeah, I mean, growing people grow into the who they
are they're going to become, right, I mean, and these guys,
I mean we knew about them as kid kids. They
got to the major leagues as kids, and the weight
of the world upon them.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
You know.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
With Machado, they mean the expectation that he was going
to be a savior for the Dodgers, right, and then
because he didn't fit the suit and certainly not running
the ball. Running out balls doesn't endear you to the fans, right.
They want hustled, they want all of that things, those
things and the expectations. It's world series of bus I mean,
we're getting ready for the next series against these Padres,
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and that's exactly what it's all about. Like a regular
season didn't matter. You knew you were getting to the
post and now can you finish? Machada was part of
that for a while, and now that's the expectation of
what they're trying to build in San Diego. For Harper,
same idea. I mean, how many magazine covers whatever, not
everybody can be Lebron James. And with all of that,
you know, do you have the right team around you
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to get your to temper your love of the stardom
and to keep you out of bad situations, to teach
you what not to say at the microphone? Do you
get different coverage depending on where you are?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Sure? I mean that's part of it as well. I
mean you mentioned Caitlin Clark. You see all her interviews,
but no matter what she says, it's not good enough,
which is actually kind of funny in the process of
what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
It's like, what else can I do?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Do I have to apologize individually or point out each
fan individually? That's a jerk. I mean, what are we
trying to do here? But for both of these players,
the fact that they persevered because both of them had
stretches where that could have felled him. I mean, how
many players and managers whatever have we seen fall under
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that weight to where all of a sudden they just
can't perform at that level anymore? So to persevere become
you better all around people. I mean, Harper, how many
headlines do you see about what he does for the
communities that he's been part of, Right back in Las Vegas,
or they're in Philly, or when he was even at
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his turn towards the end with the National I mean
all of that stuff to say. You know, you love
to see those stories as opposed to the ones that
are normally characterized. So you know, I'll bit of positivity
here on a Wednesday night from a guy who suffered
a crushing defeat and is only bolstered by the promise
of chocolate. But the positivity of like, it's very easy
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to go after, and we do it all the time
in media, right, It's one of the things it has
to be done. But you know, we certainly know the
bombastic sorts that take things perhaps a bit too far
in criticism and flat out make things up along the
way for their hot take nonsense. But you know, it's
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good to give the guys their flowers as they get ready,
you know, for this next stage of their careers, Machado
on the big stage, you know, with with the Dodgers
this weekend. Of course Bryce Harper, who is one of
those faces of baseball. Now they've all been dwarfed by show,
so I mean that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
There's just like the w n b A it doesn't
need to be one star. There's room for everybody. Everybody
is slogan. Everybody can have their own great eye. It
can make a lot of money. Everybody can be stars.
Some stars are better than others, but every everybody can
be stars.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
It's slogan. Now, everybody gets their piece. Everybody can.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Can you imagine it's like Major League Baseball stars being
upset that Shoo Tani is getting all the credit. Oh,
we're not talking about me. You're talking about me. Like
the w n B a is insane. Like I would
I think if if you hook them up to a
live detector, the players and would say, yeah, we'd rather
Caitlin Clark leave and go back to what it was
before where we were playing and not getting credit, not
making enough money in d But I'd rather. I'd rather
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have that than her get the credit that that she's
out bring this league into the next Uh, in the
forefront of this generation like that. That's Uh, that's how
nuts the w NBA. What do I always say, handle
success right and they can't do it?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Well, that's the thing, man.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
It's it's been the curiosity with the even as now
in the WNBA playoffs that the narratives continue in all
these long thought I mean hitting up podcasts or just
random interviews.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
It's like you still don't see the bigger picture, do you?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
You just can't let it go because guess what, with
a lot of people. I was talking with my daughter
about this earlier as we were driving around for a
doctor's appointment, sitting in traffic here in southern California, just
you know, you get that many more people, and.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
We talk about it.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
It related to her favorite musical artists, right that that
suddenly get that big pop and they're they're having troubles.
You know, with with that adjustment, the adoration is great.
But with that comes the lunatic fringe and whatever one
to three five percent, whatever you want to put it in.
And for the WNBA, that's what's happened as well. You
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all of a sudden get this massive surge of people watching.
And does that mean that they're all watching you know,
quote correctly in your eyes. No, but you're gonna bring
idiots to the table. It's like you and I yelling
at each other there every night.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
There's gonna be a couple of folks.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
We get it on Twitter, we get it on Facebook,
we get it all over the place, like I wear it.
If I say something bombastic and you decide that I've
now hated your team and mortally wounded you with it,
have about it.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Let's just let it out. Don't take it out on
other people. Scream at me. That's fine. I could take it.
Same thing here with the WNBA.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Just recognize and that doesn't, you know, excuse the vitriol
and the stupidity of that two to five percent in
terms of anything that is being said. Racist, sex, is homophobic,
all of those things. But the reality is those people
come with it, and now it's just a matter of
managing it as best you can and trying to persevere through.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
It, you know, to finish this into putting to put
a button on this when it comes to both of
these guys. You know, I was actually thinking about this
last weekend when it came to Bryce Harper, because you know,
the Mets played the Phillies in a big series the
week before they played the you know, the three games
before they're supposed to play the Braves, and the Mets
beat the Phillies three out of four. They had to
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win them all to set up this this uh, this
showdown and on Sunday night, in the ninth inning of
the game again the Mets. Mets had to have it.
DZ is out there the ninth inning and Bryce Harper
strikes out on a check swing, and the old Bryce
Harper right, the old and a lot of guys, the
old Bryce Harper would have would have check swung, backed out,
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got mad at the umpire for punching him out right.
The old Bright would have been what what he know?
I didn't go that. That would have been the old
Bryce Harper. But DZ throws a pitch, Harper checks his
swing and before the Mets can even appeal to third
base that he went around. He put his head down
and walked to the dugout like he knew, you know
what I went. I'm walking back to the dugout now
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like that. That that would to me. It was such
a small moment with him, but it was. It was
so far from where he was where. You know, anytime
something comes up, he's upset on the base, he's upset
with umpires. And he used to get thrown out of
games all the time. He doesn't get thrown out as
much anymore. And now that was a big I know,
it was just a small, but it was just a strikeout,
and I'm going back to the to the dugout. But
it's like I went around, I knew it. I'm walking
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back to the dugout now, head down and goes like
he's a he understands it, Doug. Yeah, for the most part,
he played the game the right way. Now he plays
it all the way the right way, and and it's
it's really something to see. And I've been thinking about
that with him and Machado ever since that moment the
last couple of weeks. Why are we going to talk
about this on the show, And now tonight's time to
do it?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Not now the night is tonight's tonight. There you go,
positivity for two superstars. And if you want to send
me derision, I'm at Swollen Dome over at Twitter.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
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And every MLB series is over well except for the Mets,
of course, but look coming off tonight, there is one
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team's fan base that is doing backflips and cartwheels right now,
and one team's fan base that is absolutely not the
happiest team right now in Major League Baseball is the Yankees.
That what a difference twenty four hours made, because last
night it was, oh my goodness, look at what King
was able to do. And he's a starter this year
and he's a star. He strikes out twelve. You know,
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so that could still be a thing. Though, Yeah, no,
it's still a thing.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
It could still be a very very big thing.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
And I told you I texted my I texted my
dad last night. Hey, Dad, Michael King was great tonight.
Where's he been the last couple of years? And I
didn't get a Felix Hunger text? He wrote back, Amazing.
What happens to guy's pictures when they get away from
the Yankees?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
How about That's like I figured, he's going jets dig
Sure joh no, no, no, are you kidding my dad?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Whenever it's a chance to mention the Yankee, he's gonna
talk about that.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Come on, man, that's not gonna happen, stand correct.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
So so so last night was about as rough as
it could get, because yes, of course you wanted one soda.
But here's a pitcher, and you need pitching. You don't
really have anything else. And here's a guy that's turned
into a superstar this year. But tonight, what a difference
twenty four hours makes. Because for the Yankees, who are
still yet to play, getting everything set for this weekend,
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who are the two teams that are in there would
be in their way both mentally and physically? They at
not that's not not Cleveland? Why not because they're not
good cli Cleveland's been there. Cleveland's a terrific team. Yeah,
But mentally for the Yankees, and and and seeing how
they how these teams play them the last few years,
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the Astros and the Orioles, those were the teams the
Yankees would be most afraid of. You looked up to
light detector. They who do you not want to see
in the playoffs? Easy Astros and the Orioles. The Orioles
play them really tough. The familiarity of the Al East.
We've seen that the Astros have knocked them out. Uh,
the ass has been to the Alcs the last seven
years in a row. That team is an ever everybody's head.
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The Yankees now have as clear a path to the
World Series that they're ever going to have. Like if
they don't get there this year, I don't know why.
And it's not that they're a perfect team. It's that
the teams in their way are really flawed, right, Like
the Royals are.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
A good team, be wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Anybody playing now is a good team. But the Royals
they're a little flawed and they're kind of overachieving. The
Tigers completely flawed. Like I don't know how they're doing it,
but they are right. They can't they can't hit, they
can't run, doesn't matter, they give it the deadline. Look
at us, we're in the Alds. We just knocked out
a team. Everybody is so happy that we eliminated, right,
and Cleveland is very good. But Cleveland's got to play
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the Tigers in this next series and we see how
it goes. But the Yankees, the two biggest threats to
them getting to the World Series are out, Hey the
Astros in the or out on the same day within
a couple hours of each other. Like this is the
Yankees dream. This is like, Hey, we couldn't write up
a playoff any better. It's almost like the team in
the NCAA tournament, the top seed that that hey boy,
they have a really tough game. Look, can head to
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the second round. This is gonna be a really tough matchup.
But that team gets upset instead of so instead of
playing North Carolina, you're playing North Carolina A and T,
you know, or something like that, and it's like, oh man,
this has worked out great for us. That's kind of
what it is for the Yankees because they are clearly Look,
the Yankees have flaws as well. It's not like the
Yankees are all of a sudden they're this perfect team,
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but the teams that were most likely to be in
their way because of how they play them and how
tough they play them in the playoffs, they're gone now.
Like Yankee fans saying, it's there as tough as it
was for us to feel good about us because we
didn't play great the last half of the season, but
we made it to the playoffs, right, We got the
buy everything we need to and everybody keeps counting us
out and we still win enough games. You have to
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feel great right now if you're the Yankees at the
potential path in front of you to get to the
World Series.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Yeah, for this season, the Astros struggled in the head
to head against the Yankees. But as we know, we
throw out those regular season records as we get after it.
I mean the Orioles were eight and five against the
Yankees and younger, younger players, they seemed to rally to
that spot, struggled in situations, situational hitting, just couldn't generate
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anything string it together. Give the guy's credit though. They
did take care of their fans as they left the
parking lots tonight, a lot of hugs and autographs and
all that fun.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Stuff, so you know, building a community.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
And the owner was whisked away the new owner as
if you were like a Batman villain, going.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
We'll be back next year, next year. The ore I.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Should say there it is on a Batman. Royals are
fun and that you know, if you didn't have Shoe
Otani in the year that he had, maybe talking about Bobby.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Wood Junior a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
But they also have a guy with a bunch of
metal in his hand in Pascentino who's back in the lineup.
So that's a fun story. Go look up his X rays.
Kind of a whole thing. He's got an exoskeleton thing
going like he's Wolverine as he's playing and back in here.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
But yeah, for the the Yankees still flowed like that.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
That's the beauty of I think this postseason though, Jason,
every team you're looking at going, yeah, that's not quite right,
that's not good, right the Yankees and why we talked
about Michael King so much yesterday starting pitching could come
back to get them. We've talked about the Dodgers a
ton with that over the last you know, well, I
don't know six months as they dropped like flies. You
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look at the Padres today. You know now that Muscrove's
heard what happens there and trying to absorb those innings
and how serious is that. But for the Yankees, yeah,
they breathe a temporary sigh of relief. But you know,
you got to now perform in the big spot, and
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knowing what we've seen from from the heart of their
lineup through the years of performance or not being available,
like that's the larger thing. You know, duct tape and
band aids to get on through. But you know, Juan
Soto in this big, monstrous kind of opportunity to well,
what's he gonna add another one hundred million dollars with
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his with potential playoff run. Sure, as Cohen's over there,
you know, based pending tomorrow's results. I mean that that
check that check book might be sitting in front of them.
There might be doing some math as their math. Math
will be math, and as they go through tomorrow's game.
But yeah, the Yankees all the expectations that last World
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Series a long time ago, and both Cashman and Aaron
Boone are guys that the poison pens are out if
it goes sideways.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
So as good as it is, as good as the
path is for the Yankees, and good as they feel
good as the Yankee fans field, it is the exact
and total opposite for the Dodgers one hundred percent. The
game that the Padres eliminated the Braves tonight, they held
on to win five for the Padre. The Braves kept
hitting solo home runs, but they were one solo home
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run short. The celebration wasn't even a couple of minutes
old when this started running through Petco and everybody could
hear it as the Padres celebrated. All right, you can
(25:16):
hear me, Ellen.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Beat la.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
That was a really loud, raucous beat la.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
The Padres are the last team the Dodgers want to
see for a couple of different reasons. Number One, the
Padres as good a team as they are. They're a
baseball team that is built on emotion. Right. We saw
them a couple of years ago. Hey, we're gonna be
the big challenges to the Dodgers. And the first month
and a half of the season things were great. Then
they realized, oh wait, we have another one hundred and
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ten games left to play.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Oh, this is a long season.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And the Padres needed to figure things out. Right, Okay,
how do we we have a lot of young players,
We spent a lot of money. What's the right mix?
Did we sign too many? Do we have to let
a couple of guys go, We'd move on from Juan Soto.
They had a lot of decisions to make and now
they got a really good mix. But they are chomping
at the bit for this series with the Dodgers. They
want nothing more than this shot at the Dodgers. They
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are all foamed up for it. And I'm look, I'm
always a big believer. I love that. That's great. And
then the next team's you know, starting pitcher is gonna
take away that momentum from you. So if you're thinking
that for the Padres as good as they're playing, you
look at the Dodgers and what are they gonna try
to out there at starting pitcher. I mean, we we've
talked about it, and now it's here. We've talked about it,
we've warned about it. Where the we're the people warning
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the bear. You know, hey, you know winter's coming. Yeah,
I'm fine. I'm sitting here under a tree. I got
some rabbits I'm gonna eat. There's a porcupine. It just
gotta pull the quills off. You can still eat.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Those, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
It kind of like like like humans when they eat artichokes.
Now you can still eat those. I get this, and
they get some stuff over there. Yeah, there's some mice
down by. I'm fine. Winter's coming, man, you gotta be
fil Winter's going. Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine. Then winter
shows up and it's we told you you had to
get food. Now you gotta go hibernate. You're gonna be ungry.
The Dodgers pitching has been in it. What are they
going to do? What are they gonna do? There's so
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many different things that they can try to do. But
eventually they have to make decisions, and where are they
gonna be. Most likely it's going to be Jack Flaherty
in Game one and then Yamamoto in Game two for
how many innings? Four innings? Maybe he's not stretched out
at all. Right, so now you're going to the playoff.
Davis going to the bullpen again in Game three, Walker
Buehller for who knows how long the guy has not
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been Walker. If you said Walker Buller and this said
Walker Buller four years ago, I'd be really excited because
the guy was one of the best playoff pitchers that
we had seen the last year's in Major League Baseball.
But the Dodgers have so many problems at starting pitcher.
And when the big saying in baseball is always momentum
is just as big as the next day's starting pitcher. Hey,
padres have that momentum. And you look at what the
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Dodgers starting pitching looks like, and that ain't something that's
going to stop these guys from hitting. This is the
last team they wanted the Braves coming in. Look, they
were on vapors. They got to the end of the season.
They barely squeaked into the playoffs. They had a couple
of really big injuries, and then you had the mental
hurdle of no Chris Sale at all when he was
as automatic as any pitcher in baseball. That's the team
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you wanted, because the Braves were just walking around till
someone finished them. Like that was like they're just walking
around like okay, like in a game when you're when
you're when your life is all the way near the end,
and like one hit is gonna kill you and then
you then you come back, Like that's what the brains
they're walking around like there their life, their life battery
was all the way in the red near the end,
like you know, okay, one hit and they're done. That
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was the Braves, right, that's the team you wanted this year.
That's not the Padres. This is the worst matchup the
Dodgers could possibly have. And yeah, the flip side is
all this will bring out a challenge and the Dodgers
playing playing the part. No, no, this is this is
the NLDS man. The challenge is there and everybody's gonna
be up and ready to go because it's about the playoffs.
This is the worst matchup for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Go back to that Division series twenty twenty two, they
lose three games to one to San Diego. I heard
a bit of five seven LA Sports are our main
you know, heavyweight station here in LA to home of
the Dodgers, you know, talking about the prep for this
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series being much different than what they did in twenty
twenty two, where you know, they didn't go through their
normal checks and balances and and the business like part
of things kind of went a wayward. So this year
taking a much different approach as they get ready for
this series. Now does that translate into different results? Don't know,
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but you know, part of it is the process by
which you come to the table. So from the Dodgers side,
that's great, but that doesn't help with your starting pitching,
right Padres get to start cease for game one, Michael
King will get his rest, and you look at the
way the rotation ends up setting up. You know, it
becomes a bit of a daunting task. Now Muscrove's status
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coming out with the elbow today and get the MRI
and everything else to figure it out. But they did
not sound overly optimistic after his departure earlier tonight. But
you know, and then I forgot you, Darvish, right, can't
forget you, Darvish. So add that all together starting pitching,
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you know, certainly a decided win on the part of
the Padres, you know, but you got to go perform
in the postseason. And that's where this is great because
Dylan Ceas doesn't have a ton of experience doing that.
I don't know if you know what his last team
was and what they were capable of. Let's just leave
it there. Dodgers currently minus won forty so bet one
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hundred and forty dollars to win one hundred dollars San
Diego plus one twenty one hundred dollars bet returns one
twenty So narrow favorites and narrow underdogs. And this expecting,
you know, a full five game dog fight.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swalling down the Jason
Smizer with Mike carmon Live thetirec dot COM's too videos.
Yankee fans yay, Dodger fans not so much. Padres fans
like Brian Fenley very excited us. I saw him have
four drinks in the last half hour. That Yeahfore he
comes on the ADDU and tell us what's trying to do.
You mean water because I don't drink alcohol, so it
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must have been water.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
What was he?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
You know, you pulled something had a little motor bag
going on there that you just pulled out, and.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Well, it's coconut water or it might be oduleS.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
It's Oduel duels.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
I actually got that for my birthday, a keg of o'duels,
And that's a true story.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
They make kegs and o'dules they do really well.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
It was like it was the amount of a keg.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
So it's like a twelve pack that I got sent
to me from my mom, who you.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Know, I'm mom.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Your mom sent you a twelve pack of oduels for
your birthday on my twenty first birthday. That when you could, Okay,
there's a lot to unpack. There's a lot you and
I will want to pack.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, yeah, okay, there.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Might be a therapy session.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
There's a lot with their shrink there. But anyway, yeah,
you talked about the Cianego Padres and they pull off
the sweep against the Braves tonight, five to four. The
final score in that game two in the card round
in five runs for San Diego. Scored on that second
inning and Joe Musgrove, as both you, Jason and Mike
were discussing starting pitcher for San Diego. He came out
of this game in the fourth inning with elbow soreness,
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and he's going to get some imaging done, have an
MRI tomorrow saying quote, I'll do whatever I've got to
do to get back in there at some point close quote,
but not so sure what his chances are, of course
to get back in considering the injury in that he
could play in another postseason game. By the way, Game
one of the NLDS between the Padres and the Dodgers
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is on Saturday, best of five in that series. In
it's eight thirty Eastern time, Saturday night at Dodger Stadium.
It is going to be bedlam there. Mets and Brewers
are going to play a Game three. Not so happy
I think Jason was to learn of that and that
Game three will be on Thursday. This after the Brewers
took a Game two five to three, New York blew
(32:56):
a three to two eighth inning lead. Jackson Turio had
two home runs for Milwaukee, and then Garrett Mitchell broke
a three to three tie in the eighth with a
two run blast it was a pinch hit home run,
and Milwaukee coming into that game had been zero and
twenty six in postseason opportunities when trailing going into the
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eighth inning, So what does that say about the Mets.
I'm not so sure. Meanwhile, the Tigers, with a five
to two game two win that ends the Astros playoff
run if you could even call it a run, Detroit
to play the Guardians, and the Yankees have the Royals
coming up next. After KC obliterates the Orioles and holds
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their offense to lackluster numbers.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
They obliterate them.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Yeah, because they held.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Their by one run in each game, because they held
their bats in check.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Weren't there a total of.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Four runs scored in the entire series.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yeah, but they suffocated their offense, And to me, that's obliterating.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
No, suffocating and obliterating now two different things. Yeah, yeah,
darn it.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
I thought those were like TheSource dot com, I thought
I could put those two together.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Now, think of abliterated obliterated is like, oh, when you
watch the Death Star blow up alder On. Like suffocated
is what happens to Jack Nicholson at the end of
one flow over the Cuckoo's nest. Sorry spoiler alert. Yeah,
that's kind of you know.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Obliterated is kind of like the Jets season. At this point,
we're two and two family, okay, all right, hey, And
just lastly, really quickly, the Royals they did win in
two games. That's the sweet Bobby Wood Junior had the
go ahead run that he scored with a single infield
sixth inning. And the Royals have the Guardians next, Jason
and Mike, so that should be very exciting. I'm sure
(34:42):
you're nervous about your Mets tomorrow, Jason. As I said,
I've you've accepted they're gonna lose.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
With all my teams, I accept that the worst outcome
is also the most likely outcome. So I'm at peace
with myself about it ahead of time, that's all I am.
I'm gonna be I've already accepted. Ay, they're probably gonna
lose tomorrow. That's gonna be it. Okay, that's how it's
gonna go. And if they win it to nice surprise,
that's where I am.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
I'm gonna still bring in the gloves and the uh,
you know, the mits and everything so you can punch
through your pain.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
That my friends is a dark side. Thank you, Brian Fenley.
Coming up next, we could be seeing something coming up
in sports we have absolutely never seen before. That's next,
right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Because so saw Halloween's a bigger lit town than being a.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
Mets fan opening And here's the first pitch, and the
season's over.
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Speaker 3 (35:59):
But, uh, you know this.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Something that's been going around the last couple of days.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
There was a new.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Angle to this story today. You know, agent wo Jerowski
leaving ESPN and and and and you know he's he
was the biggest NBA insider. Sure, Shams Trania is also
incredibly huge. Uh, you know, Wojes leaving at the top
of his game, gonna go going to be the general
manager of his alump of his college alumni. Went to
(36:29):
school at Saint Bonaventure. So now this is left a
hole in the in the top of hey NBA insiders.
And in the last couple of days, ESPN has announced
that potentially, or the stories potentially that Jeff Passon big
time baseball insider, right one of the best out there,
or potentially Adam Schefter, one of the best NFL insiders
(36:52):
out there, could take over that role and be like
the the the the emeritus insider or the the the
the overwhelming inside, I don't know what. They would call them,
the ultimate insider. And it would it would break ultimate, yes,
it would. It would break barriers and suddenly shifters what
he's doing for the NFL, he'd be doing for the NBA,
(37:13):
or Jeff Passing doing that for baseball and for basketball.
And I see this and I and I go wow,
and and and you know, there's a couple of things
that come because I know exactly how this comes up.
Number One, ESPN they fight a pr problem anytime they
hire somebody, give him big money, right, because they lay
people off. But here's money for this guy, here's money
for Pat McAfee. But we don't have money for these guys.
(37:35):
Probably Shams is costing too much money or whoever they're
going to bring in is costing too much money?
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Yeah, agent, yeah, hey, uh, well.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
We're paying Schefter and and uh and passing a lot
of money. Let's just pay them a little bit more,
you know, or decent amount more. And there will be
the insiders too. We'll set them up right, well, we'll
make introductions, we'll let them talk to who they need
to talk to, and and and and gms will call
them with news breaking. It's gonna be that simple. And
I'm sure it was some idea that somebody came up
(38:05):
with and it sounds interesting and it sounds groundbreaking, so
we're gonna run through it. We can save money, we
can do something that's ever been done before. Yes, let's
go ahead and do it. Okay, let's see how this
really goes. Let's see how many Let's see how many
how many breaking stories a non NBA person gets, especially
when you get to a point where Chefter can be
(38:26):
very polarizing and some of the you know, questions about
how you know who he really reports for and you know,
teams that he gives favorable reports to. Let's see how
this goes when it's really put into practice, because that's
a really hard thing to do.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Can I just I'll be that guy? And I've made
this argument before, but I'll do it again. Ten minutes
after something breaks, do we remember who broke it? I mean,
I know they keep score and the networks trying to
fight each other keeping score, But as you as a consumer,
do you care that it was shams or woesh other
than I mean, really, this all comes down to it
(39:01):
should be settled at Hell in a cell and all
of these guys vying for a title, and it should
be part of the WWE extra experience you want.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
You want in as the ultimate insider.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
You're gonna have to fight through these other sixteen wannabes
and a couple of wild cards from local jurisdictions.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Hey guess what, I want a wild card to get
into this competition. I gotta win a couple of matches.
Then I get to go to the semifinals.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
If I beat that ass and in this event, I
get to be the top guy for ESPN.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Let's see how this goes.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
It actually winds up going this way, but down the
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the action of Major League Baseball is over Padres, eliminating
the Braves five to four.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
They win the opening round.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Series in a sweep.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Sin we have gone to the extra playoff round the
best two out of three. Every team that has won
Game one has won the series. In fact, only once
has a series gone to three games. Well, the New
York Mets said will take care of that. They lose
a knight to the Brewers. So they head to Game
(01:20):
three tomorrow, and I have an awful, awful feeling about that,
Like I've already accepted. I'm gonna We're gonna come on
the air tomorrow night at the end of the game
be talking about the football game and Baker Mayfield and
Bjon Robinson and why they don't give him the ball
more and all this suff and it's gonna be I'm
gonna just watch the end of the Mets season, just drip, drip,
drip away.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I've already accepted it. And that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I think It's a gift that I have as a
sports fan is that I can accept that when my
team not only is it something that it doesn't sit
with me, but I accept it before it actually happens.
And I think that's a gift.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
You had to bellow out a couple of bars of
let it go, let it go while you're at it. Look,
I've already admitted to the fact that for tomorrow, just
positive or negatively, I'm bringing in something with chocolate because
it'll either make you feel better if it all goes
to hell, because we'll also be watching, you know, Falcons, bucketeers,
(02:14):
on a Thursday night. On a Thursday night, Hey, yoh,
divisional football, let's go. But especially with the way the
Falcons are going, so we can sit and read mean
tweets about Kyle Pitts and djonn Robinson from angry fantasy
owners all night if we need to.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
But yeah, it's it's it's gonna be a day.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I have no doubt you'll be pacing the floor later
on this evening. You'll be up. Maybe you take Benny
for a midnight walk and trying to clear your head.
Maybe you're walking along the beach and trying to think
of what went wrong in your fan Now.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'm just I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'm just gonna stress until four o'clock tomorrow's I mean, I.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Did appreciate how you went since they got to this format,
no team that one game one is ever lost.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
That was good. Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I do appreciate how you got your positive spin. But
then you went and spiraled in a bad direction. Let's
see if we're still saying that tomorrow at this time.
Let's see if we're still saying that tomorrow. Does that
record hold up? We'll see, Let's see.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Stay with us twenty four hours from now.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
But we did talk about the the in game interview
with Garrett Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Boy, people are pissed.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah yeah, there's already articles all over the web, including
the New York Post that puts their unique spin on it,
as always, But the fact that they did this interview
with Mitchell as the ninth inning started to unfold. The
editorial choice there is one that MLB fans are not
(03:43):
going to be so quick to forget.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I also think if it was a one run game,
maybe not, but a two run game, and then they
can always dump out and get back to the action
when they need to, Like if Lindora had gotten a
hit suddenly, Okay, with a two run game, I can
see it. Look, I thought it was kind of I
thought it was kind of interesting. Hey, we're an in
game interview with a guy that just hit a big
home run.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You know, I was okay.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I mean, I wasn't happy that it happened against the Mets,
but I was.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I was.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I was okay with that happening then. But yeah, you know,
never take me away from the action. But let's just
say you miss a home run, right, Let's say Lindor
hits a home run, Okay, it's it's you're still down
a run, right, so so the game So now, okay, hey,
thanks for stopping bye with us, appreciate everything. We're going
back up to the booth, all right, and then then
you get the rest of the game. But if it
was a one run game, no, I'm with you because
you could you could miss something really big and now
(04:28):
what I've set a lot of people, but two runs,
that's okay.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
You got plenty of time to talk to Garrett Mitchell. Yeah,
that's all I can say is you got plenty of time.
I always post.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I always tell my wife for the last thirty years,
I've told her if there's like if we're on vacation
or something and there's a big game going on something
that you know, do you need to watch it? Do
you need to Like if the Mets are playing in
a big game, we're on vacation, the Jets are playing
in a big game. But we're on vacation, we're away somewhere,
and I'm we're not on the air. And I just said, yeah, no,
it's okay, I can I can. I can miss the game.
She's really missed the game. And I go, yeah, I said, well,
(04:59):
look if they win, I'll be happy, and if they lose,
I'll be happy. I didn't sit and watch it, so okay,
so I'm gonna vacate. I mean, I don't need it's
it's Sunday. I don't need to. I'm not talking again
about sports for another week. We're all good.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Now, let me just tell you this, because it's time
to give a couple of guys credit that I don't
know this one, that one of them I've ever given
credit to. But it's time now because they have both
clearly shown that they have matured and they have turned
into bona fide superstars that you no longer need to
(05:35):
attach a yeah butt with Sam Stop Sam Darnak. They're
gonna sack him fifty times this weekend.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And the first one is tonight, and it's Manny Machado.
Manny Machado has had an incredible run since signing with
San Diego. He's the nominee their nominee for Roberto Clementy
Man of the Year Award. He does a lot of
stuff in the community.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
ROBERTA.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Clemeny exemplifies that, you know, being role models in baseball.
He is someone who has stayed away from controversy. Has
not gotten involved in anything that you can say it's
divisive with the team like he was with the Dodgers,
or I'm not Johnny Hustle, I'm not this kind of guy. Well,
you know, when he was in Baltimore when there were
a lot of complaints, are kind of looking sideways at
(06:18):
him a little bit. Since he has been with San Diego,
he has been a really terrific player. And look, you
saw the play he made to start the triple play
last week, and that throw to second base, which was
one of the best throws you'll ever see him stepping
on third going a second as good as he is
as a third baseman as we've seen in Major League Baseball,
and he is someone who has matured a lot in
(06:41):
the last few years. He stayed away from the big headlines.
His teammates all say wonderful things about him. That wasn't
always the case. And look, sometimes everybody gets to it
at a different point in their career. And you know,
some guys come up and it takes them a couple
of years to mature, but by the time they're twenty five,
twenty six, they kind of get it. You know, some
people it takes him till they're thirty. Some people they
never get that point. You know, like Caitlin Clark. When
(07:03):
I see her talk, that seems like she's thirty five
years old, right. She understands what's going on. She's very
self aware. You see that from athletes, right. You see
it right away with many superstars and they come into
a league and go, wow, this guy really understands stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Lebron came in, He really understood stuff when he talked, right.
You see it with a lot of big superstars. Steph
Curry all the same way when he came in, you
saw he's someone that can handle this. And the maturity
levels of these athletes, and Manny Machada was at that
level and he is there right now. And for him
and the other guy that hasn't played, I got to
give a lot of credit to Bryce Harper, right, I've
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never never done that before, but over the last few
years with Philadelphia, he is also matured. He was a hothead.
Earlier in his career. He was someone that was very unlikable.
You just watch the way he played the game. And
while you know he loved the game, he still was
very irksome. The way he would do things. He would
hit a fly ball to right field that would be
a home run. He would smash his bat, he would
get mad, he would get very emotional. But now since
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he's become a filly, he has directed that into the
right places. Right. He's a great teammate. His teammates all
say glowing things about him. You see him on the field,
they follow his lead. He leads by example. His emotion
is now in the right place, and he pushes it
towards the positivity of his team. He has also matured
a lot, and he's a great ambassador for baseball. And
(08:20):
just watching him in at bats, you can see his
demeanor as different. Doesn't show up the umpire, doesn't do
a lot of things that earlier in his career he
did right. I called him Bieber Harper for a long time.
It's kind of what he was like. But Manny Machado
and Bryce Harper have both really matured the last few years.
And I got to give them credit because they have
become these full fledged superstars where it's hey, we can
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talk about these guys on the field and how great
they are, and you know anything that's hey. But this
is a bit of a distraction for me when when
he does this and this happens, that's no longer the
case with either of these guys.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Yeah, I mean, growing people grow into the who they
are they're going to become, right, I mean, and these guys,
I mean we knew about them as kid kids. They
got to the major leagues as kids, and the weight
of the world upon them.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
You know.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
With Machado, they mean the expectation that he was going
to be a savior for the Dodgers, right, and then
because he didn't fit the suit and certainly not running
the ball. Running out balls doesn't endear you to the fans, right.
They want hustled, they want all of that things, those
things and the expectations. It's world series of bus I mean,
we're getting ready for the next series against these Padres,
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and that's exactly what it's all about. Like a regular
season didn't matter. You knew you were getting to the
post and now can you finish? Machada was part of
that for a while, and now that's the expectation of
what they're trying to build in San Diego. For Harper,
same idea. I mean, how many magazine covers whatever, not
everybody can be Lebron James. And with all of that,
you know, do you have the right team around you
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to get your to temper your love of the stardom
and to keep you out of bad situations, to teach
you what not to say at the microphone? Do you
get different coverage depending on where you are?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Sure? I mean that's part of it as well. I
mean you mentioned Caitlin Clark. You see all her interviews,
but no matter what she says, it's not good enough,
which is actually kind of funny in the process of
what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
It's like, what else can I do?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Do I have to apologize individually or point out each
fan individually? That's a jerk. I mean, what are we
trying to do here? But for both of these players,
the fact that they persevered because both of them had
stretches where that could have felled him. I mean, how
many players and managers whatever have we seen fall under
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that weight to where all of a sudden they just
can't perform at that level anymore? So to persevere become
you better all around people. I mean, Harper, how many
headlines do you see about what he does for the
communities that he's been part of, Right back in Las Vegas,
or they're in Philly, or when he was even at
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his turn towards the end with the National I mean
all of that stuff to say. You know, you love
to see those stories as opposed to the ones that
are normally characterized. So you know, I'll bit of positivity
here on a Wednesday night from a guy who suffered
a crushing defeat and is only bolstered by the promise
of chocolate. But the positivity of like, it's very easy
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to go after, and we do it all the time
in media, right, It's one of the things it has
to be done. But you know, we certainly know the
bombastic sorts that take things perhaps a bit too far
in criticism and flat out make things up along the
way for their hot take nonsense. But you know, it's
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good to give the guys their flowers as they get ready,
you know, for this next stage of their careers, Machado
on the big stage, you know, with with the Dodgers
this weekend. Of course Bryce Harper, who is one of
those faces of baseball. Now they've all been dwarfed by show,
so I mean that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
There's just like the w n b A it doesn't
need to be one star. There's room for everybody. Everybody
is slogan. Everybody can have their own great eye. It
can make a lot of money. Everybody can be stars.
Some stars are better than others, but every everybody can
be stars.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
It's slogan. Now, everybody gets their piece. Everybody can.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Can you imagine it's like Major League Baseball stars being
upset that Shoo Tani is getting all the credit. Oh,
we're not talking about me. You're talking about me. Like
the w n B a is insane. Like I would
I think if if you hook them up to a
live detector, the players and would say, yeah, we'd rather
Caitlin Clark leave and go back to what it was
before where we were playing and not getting credit, not
making enough money in d But I'd rather. I'd rather
(12:44):
have that than her get the credit that that she's
out bring this league into the next Uh, in the
forefront of this generation like that. That's Uh, that's how
nuts the w NBA. What do I always say, handle
success right and they can't do it?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Well, that's the thing, man.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
It's it's been the curiosity with the even as now
in the WNBA playoffs that the narratives continue in all
these long thought I mean hitting up podcasts or just
random interviews.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
It's like you still don't see the bigger picture, do you?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
You just can't let it go because guess what, with
a lot of people. I was talking with my daughter
about this earlier as we were driving around for a
doctor's appointment, sitting in traffic here in southern California, just
you know, you get that many more people, and.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
We talk about it.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
It related to her favorite musical artists, right that that
suddenly get that big pop and they're they're having troubles.
You know, with with that adjustment, the adoration is great.
But with that comes the lunatic fringe and whatever one
to three five percent, whatever you want to put it in.
And for the WNBA, that's what's happened as well. You
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all of a sudden get this massive surge of people watching.
And does that mean that they're all watching you know,
quote correctly in your eyes. No, but you're gonna bring
idiots to the table. It's like you and I yelling
at each other there every night.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
There's gonna be a couple of folks.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
We get it on Twitter, we get it on Facebook,
we get it all over the place, like I wear it.
If I say something bombastic and you decide that I've
now hated your team and mortally wounded you with it,
have about it.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Let's just let it out. Don't take it out on
other people. Scream at me. That's fine. I could take it.
Same thing here with the WNBA.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Just recognize and that doesn't, you know, excuse the vitriol
and the stupidity of that two to five percent in
terms of anything that is being said. Racist, sex, is homophobic,
all of those things. But the reality is those people
come with it, and now it's just a matter of
managing it as best you can and trying to persevere through.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
It, you know, to finish this into putting to put
a button on this when it comes to both of
these guys. You know, I was actually thinking about this
last weekend when it came to Bryce Harper, because you know,
the Mets played the Phillies in a big series the
week before they played the you know, the three games
before they're supposed to play the Braves, and the Mets
beat the Phillies three out of four. They had to
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win them all to set up this this uh, this
showdown and on Sunday night, in the ninth inning of
the game again the Mets. Mets had to have it.
DZ is out there the ninth inning and Bryce Harper
strikes out on a check swing, and the old Bryce
Harper right, the old and a lot of guys, the
old Bryce Harper would have would have check swung, backed out,
(15:25):
got mad at the umpire for punching him out right.
The old Bright would have been what what he know?
I didn't go that. That would have been the old
Bryce Harper. But DZ throws a pitch, Harper checks his
swing and before the Mets can even appeal to third
base that he went around. He put his head down
and walked to the dugout like he knew, you know
what I went. I'm walking back to the dugout now
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like that. That that would to me. It was such
a small moment with him, but it was. It was
so far from where he was where. You know, anytime
something comes up, he's upset on the base, he's upset
with umpires. And he used to get thrown out of
games all the time. He doesn't get thrown out as
much anymore. And now that was a big I know,
it was just a small, but it was just a strikeout,
and I'm going back to the to the dugout. But
it's like I went around, I knew it. I'm walking
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back to the dugout now, head down and goes like
he's a he understands it, Doug. Yeah, for the most part,
he played the game the right way. Now he plays
it all the way the right way, and and it's
it's really something to see. And I've been thinking about
that with him and Machado ever since that moment the
last couple of weeks. Why are we going to talk
about this on the show, And now tonight's time to
do it?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Not now the night is tonight's tonight. There you go,
positivity for two superstars. And if you want to send
me derision, I'm at Swollen Dome over at Twitter.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
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And every MLB series is over well except for the Mets,
of course, but look coming off tonight, there is one
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team's fan base that is doing backflips and cartwheels right now,
and one team's fan base that is absolutely not the
happiest team right now in Major League Baseball is the Yankees.
That what a difference twenty four hours made, because last
night it was, oh my goodness, look at what King
was able to do. And he's a starter this year
and he's a star. He strikes out twelve. You know,
(18:26):
so that could still be a thing. Though, Yeah, no,
it's still a thing.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
It could still be a very very big thing.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
And I told you I texted my I texted my
dad last night. Hey, Dad, Michael King was great tonight.
Where's he been the last couple of years? And I
didn't get a Felix Hunger text? He wrote back, Amazing.
What happens to guy's pictures when they get away from
the Yankees?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
How about That's like I figured, he's going jets dig
Sure joh no, no, no, are you kidding my dad?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Whenever it's a chance to mention the Yankee, he's gonna
talk about that.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Come on, man, that's not gonna happen, stand correct.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
So so so last night was about as rough as
it could get, because yes, of course you wanted one soda.
But here's a pitcher, and you need pitching. You don't
really have anything else. And here's a guy that's turned
into a superstar this year. But tonight, what a difference
twenty four hours makes. Because for the Yankees, who are
still yet to play, getting everything set for this weekend,
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who are the two teams that are in there would
be in their way both mentally and physically? They at
not that's not not Cleveland? Why not because they're not
good cli Cleveland's been there. Cleveland's a terrific team. Yeah,
But mentally for the Yankees, and and and seeing how
they how these teams play them the last few years,
(19:38):
the Astros and the Orioles, those were the teams the
Yankees would be most afraid of. You looked up to
light detector. They who do you not want to see
in the playoffs? Easy Astros and the Orioles. The Orioles
play them really tough. The familiarity of the Al East.
We've seen that the Astros have knocked them out. Uh,
the ass has been to the Alcs the last seven
years in a row. That team is an ever everybody's head.
(20:01):
The Yankees now have as clear a path to the
World Series that they're ever going to have. Like if
they don't get there this year, I don't know why.
And it's not that they're a perfect team. It's that
the teams in their way are really flawed, right, Like
the Royals are.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
A good team, be wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Anybody playing now is a good team. But the Royals
they're a little flawed and they're kind of overachieving. The
Tigers completely flawed. Like I don't know how they're doing it,
but they are right. They can't they can't hit, they
can't run, doesn't matter, they give it the deadline. Look
at us, we're in the Alds. We just knocked out
a team. Everybody is so happy that we eliminated, right,
and Cleveland is very good. But Cleveland's got to play
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the Tigers in this next series and we see how
it goes. But the Yankees, the two biggest threats to
them getting to the World Series are out, Hey the
Astros in the or out on the same day within
a couple hours of each other. Like this is the
Yankees dream. This is like, Hey, we couldn't write up
a playoff any better. It's almost like the team in
the NCAA tournament, the top seed that that hey boy,
they have a really tough game. Look, can head to
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the second round. This is gonna be a really tough matchup.
But that team gets upset instead of so instead of
playing North Carolina, you're playing North Carolina A and T,
you know, or something like that, and it's like, oh man,
this has worked out great for us. That's kind of
what it is for the Yankees because they are clearly Look,
the Yankees have flaws as well. It's not like the
Yankees are all of a sudden they're this perfect team,
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but the teams that were most likely to be in
their way because of how they play them and how
tough they play them in the playoffs, they're gone now.
Like Yankee fans saying, it's there as tough as it
was for us to feel good about us because we
didn't play great the last half of the season, but
we made it to the playoffs, right, We got the
buy everything we need to and everybody keeps counting us
out and we still win enough games. You have to
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feel great right now if you're the Yankees at the
potential path in front of you to get to the
World Series.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Yeah, for this season, the Astros struggled in the head
to head against the Yankees. But as we know, we
throw out those regular season records as we get after it.
I mean the Orioles were eight and five against the
Yankees and younger, younger players, they seemed to rally to
that spot, struggled in situations, situational hitting, just couldn't generate
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anything string it together. Give the guy's credit though. They
did take care of their fans as they left the
parking lots tonight, a lot of hugs and autographs and
all that fun.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Stuff, so you know, building a community.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
And the owner was whisked away the new owner as
if you were like a Batman villain, going.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
We'll be back next year, next year. The ore I.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Should say there it is on a Batman. Royals are
fun and that you know, if you didn't have Shoe
Otani in the year that he had, maybe talking about Bobby.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Wood Junior a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
But they also have a guy with a bunch of
metal in his hand in Pascentino who's back in the lineup.
So that's a fun story. Go look up his X rays.
Kind of a whole thing. He's got an exoskeleton thing
going like he's Wolverine as he's playing and back in here.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
But yeah, for the the Yankees still flowed like that.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
That's the beauty of I think this postseason though, Jason,
every team you're looking at going, yeah, that's not quite right,
that's not good, right the Yankees and why we talked
about Michael King so much yesterday starting pitching could come
back to get them. We've talked about the Dodgers a
ton with that over the last you know, well, I
don't know six months as they dropped like flies. You
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look at the Padres today. You know now that Muscrove's
heard what happens there and trying to absorb those innings
and how serious is that. But for the Yankees, yeah,
they breathe a temporary sigh of relief. But you know,
you got to now perform in the big spot, and
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knowing what we've seen from from the heart of their
lineup through the years of performance or not being available,
like that's the larger thing. You know, duct tape and
band aids to get on through. But you know, Juan
Soto in this big, monstrous kind of opportunity to well,
what's he gonna add another one hundred million dollars with
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his with potential playoff run. Sure, as Cohen's over there,
you know, based pending tomorrow's results. I mean that that
check that check book might be sitting in front of them.
There might be doing some math as their math. Math
will be math, and as they go through tomorrow's game.
But yeah, the Yankees all the expectations that last World
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Series a long time ago, and both Cashman and Aaron
Boone are guys that the poison pens are out if
it goes sideways.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
So as good as it is, as good as the
path is for the Yankees, and good as they feel
good as the Yankee fans field, it is the exact
and total opposite for the Dodgers one hundred percent. The
game that the Padres eliminated the Braves tonight, they held
on to win five for the Padre. The Braves kept
hitting solo home runs, but they were one solo home
(24:54):
run short. The celebration wasn't even a couple of minutes
old when this started running through Petco and everybody could
hear it as the Padres celebrated. All right, you can
(25:16):
hear me, Ellen.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Beat la.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
That was a really loud, raucous beat la.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
The Padres are the last team the Dodgers want to
see for a couple of different reasons. Number One, the
Padres as good a team as they are. They're a
baseball team that is built on emotion. Right. We saw
them a couple of years ago. Hey, we're gonna be
the big challenges to the Dodgers. And the first month
and a half of the season things were great. Then
they realized, oh wait, we have another one hundred and
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ten games left to play.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Oh, this is a long season.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And the Padres needed to figure things out. Right, Okay,
how do we we have a lot of young players,
We spent a lot of money. What's the right mix?
Did we sign too many? Do we have to let
a couple of guys go, We'd move on from Juan Soto.
They had a lot of decisions to make and now
they got a really good mix. But they are chomping
at the bit for this series with the Dodgers. They
want nothing more than this shot at the Dodgers. They
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are all foamed up for it. And I'm look, I'm
always a big believer. I love that. That's great. And
then the next team's you know, starting pitcher is gonna
take away that momentum from you. So if you're thinking
that for the Padres as good as they're playing, you
look at the Dodgers and what are they gonna try
to out there at starting pitcher. I mean, we we've
talked about it, and now it's here. We've talked about it,
we've warned about it. Where the we're the people warning
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the bear. You know, hey, you know winter's coming. Yeah,
I'm fine. I'm sitting here under a tree. I got
some rabbits I'm gonna eat. There's a porcupine. It just
gotta pull the quills off. You can still eat.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Those, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
It kind of like like like humans when they eat artichokes.
Now you can still eat those. I get this, and
they get some stuff over there. Yeah, there's some mice
down by. I'm fine. Winter's coming, man, you gotta be
fil Winter's going. Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine. Then winter
shows up and it's we told you you had to
get food. Now you gotta go hibernate. You're gonna be ungry.
The Dodgers pitching has been in it. What are they
going to do? What are they gonna do? There's so
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many different things that they can try to do. But
eventually they have to make decisions, and where are they
gonna be. Most likely it's going to be Jack Flaherty
in Game one and then Yamamoto in Game two for
how many innings? Four innings? Maybe he's not stretched out
at all. Right, so now you're going to the playoff.
Davis going to the bullpen again in Game three, Walker
Buehller for who knows how long the guy has not
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been Walker. If you said Walker Buller and this said
Walker Buller four years ago, I'd be really excited because
the guy was one of the best playoff pitchers that
we had seen the last year's in Major League Baseball.
But the Dodgers have so many problems at starting pitcher.
And when the big saying in baseball is always momentum
is just as big as the next day's starting pitcher. Hey,
padres have that momentum. And you look at what the
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Dodgers starting pitching looks like, and that ain't something that's
going to stop these guys from hitting. This is the
last team they wanted the Braves coming in. Look, they
were on vapors. They got to the end of the season.
They barely squeaked into the playoffs. They had a couple
of really big injuries, and then you had the mental
hurdle of no Chris Sale at all when he was
as automatic as any pitcher in baseball. That's the team
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you wanted, because the Braves were just walking around till
someone finished them. Like that was like they're just walking
around like okay, like in a game when you're when
you're when your life is all the way near the end,
and like one hit is gonna kill you and then
you then you come back, Like that's what the brains
they're walking around like there their life, their life battery
was all the way in the red near the end,
like you know, okay, one hit and they're done. That
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was the Braves, right, that's the team you wanted this year.
That's not the Padres. This is the worst matchup the
Dodgers could possibly have. And yeah, the flip side is
all this will bring out a challenge and the Dodgers
playing playing the part. No, no, this is this is
the NLDS man. The challenge is there and everybody's gonna
be up and ready to go because it's about the playoffs.
This is the worst matchup for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Go back to that Division series twenty twenty two, they
lose three games to one to San Diego. I heard
a bit of five seven LA Sports are our main
you know, heavyweight station here in LA to home of
the Dodgers, you know, talking about the prep for this
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series being much different than what they did in twenty
twenty two, where you know, they didn't go through their
normal checks and balances and and the business like part
of things kind of went a wayward. So this year
taking a much different approach as they get ready for
this series. Now does that translate into different results? Don't know,
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but you know, part of it is the process by
which you come to the table. So from the Dodgers side,
that's great, but that doesn't help with your starting pitching,
right Padres get to start cease for game one, Michael
King will get his rest, and you look at the
way the rotation ends up setting up. You know, it
becomes a bit of a daunting task. Now Muscrove's status
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coming out with the elbow today and get the MRI
and everything else to figure it out. But they did
not sound overly optimistic after his departure earlier tonight. But
you know, and then I forgot you, Darvish, right, can't
forget you, Darvish. So add that all together starting pitching,
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you know, certainly a decided win on the part of
the Padres, you know, but you got to go perform
in the postseason. And that's where this is great because
Dylan Ceas doesn't have a ton of experience doing that.
I don't know if you know what his last team
was and what they were capable of. Let's just leave
it there. Dodgers currently minus won forty so bet one
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hundred and forty dollars to win one hundred dollars San
Diego plus one twenty one hundred dollars bet returns one
twenty So narrow favorites and narrow underdogs. And this expecting,
you know, a full five game dog fight.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swalling down the Jason
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Yankee fans yay, Dodger fans not so much. Padres fans
like Brian Fenley very excited us. I saw him have
four drinks in the last half hour. That Yeahfore he
comes on the ADDU and tell us what's trying to do.
You mean water because I don't drink alcohol, so it
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must have been water.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
What was he?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
You know, you pulled something had a little motor bag
going on there that you just pulled out, and.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Well, it's coconut water or it might be oduleS.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
It's Oduel duels.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
I actually got that for my birthday, a keg of o'duels,
And that's a true story.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
They make kegs and o'dules they do really well.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
It was like it was the amount of a keg.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
So it's like a twelve pack that I got sent
to me from my mom, who you.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Know, I'm mom.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Your mom sent you a twelve pack of oduels for
your birthday on my twenty first birthday. That when you could, Okay,
there's a lot to unpack. There's a lot you and
I will want to pack.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, yeah, okay, there.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Might be a therapy session.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
There's a lot with their shrink there. But anyway, yeah,
you talked about the Cianego Padres and they pull off
the sweep against the Braves tonight, five to four. The
final score in that game two in the card round
in five runs for San Diego. Scored on that second
inning and Joe Musgrove, as both you, Jason and Mike
were discussing starting pitcher for San Diego. He came out
of this game in the fourth inning with elbow soreness,
(32:12):
and he's going to get some imaging done, have an
MRI tomorrow saying quote, I'll do whatever I've got to
do to get back in there at some point close quote,
but not so sure what his chances are, of course
to get back in considering the injury in that he
could play in another postseason game. By the way, Game
one of the NLDS between the Padres and the Dodgers
(32:33):
is on Saturday, best of five in that series. In
it's eight thirty Eastern time, Saturday night at Dodger Stadium.
It is going to be bedlam there. Mets and Brewers
are going to play a Game three. Not so happy
I think Jason was to learn of that and that
Game three will be on Thursday. This after the Brewers
took a Game two five to three, New York blew
(32:56):
a three to two eighth inning lead. Jackson Turio had
two home runs for Milwaukee, and then Garrett Mitchell broke
a three to three tie in the eighth with a
two run blast it was a pinch hit home run,
and Milwaukee coming into that game had been zero and
twenty six in postseason opportunities when trailing going into the
(33:16):
eighth inning, So what does that say about the Mets.
I'm not so sure. Meanwhile, the Tigers, with a five
to two game two win that ends the Astros playoff
run if you could even call it a run, Detroit
to play the Guardians, and the Yankees have the Royals
coming up next. After KC obliterates the Orioles and holds
(33:39):
their offense to lackluster numbers.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
They obliterate them.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Yeah, because they held.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Their by one run in each game, because they held
their bats in check.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Weren't there a total of.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Four runs scored in the entire series.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yeah, but they suffocated their offense, And to me, that's obliterating.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
No, suffocating and obliterating now two different things. Yeah, yeah,
darn it.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
I thought those were like TheSource dot com, I thought
I could put those two together.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Now, think of abliterated obliterated is like, oh, when you
watch the Death Star blow up alder On. Like suffocated
is what happens to Jack Nicholson at the end of
one flow over the Cuckoo's nest. Sorry spoiler alert. Yeah,
that's kind of you know.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Obliterated is kind of like the Jets season. At this point,
we're two and two family, okay, all right, hey, And
just lastly, really quickly, the Royals they did win in
two games. That's the sweet Bobby Wood Junior had the
go ahead run that he scored with a single infield
sixth inning. And the Royals have the Guardians next, Jason
and Mike, so that should be very exciting. I'm sure
(34:42):
you're nervous about your Mets tomorrow, Jason. As I said,
I've you've accepted they're gonna lose.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
With all my teams, I accept that the worst outcome
is also the most likely outcome. So I'm at peace
with myself about it ahead of time, that's all I am.
I'm gonna be I've already accepted. Ay, they're probably gonna
lose tomorrow. That's gonna be it. Okay, that's how it's
gonna go. And if they win it to nice surprise,
that's where I am.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
I'm gonna still bring in the gloves and the uh,
you know, the mits and everything so you can punch
through your pain.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
That my friends is a dark side. Thank you, Brian Fenley.
Coming up next, we could be seeing something coming up
in sports we have absolutely never seen before. That's next,
right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
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Speaker 5 (35:32):
Mets fan opening And here's the first pitch, and the
season's over.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
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Speaker 1 (35:48):
App Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon. We have a big update on
the biggest NFL story the last twenty four hours coming
your way in about ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
But, uh, you know this.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Something that's been going around the last couple of days.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
There was a new.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Angle to this story today. You know, agent wo Jerowski
leaving ESPN and and and and you know he's he
was the biggest NBA insider. Sure, Shams Trania is also
incredibly huge. Uh, you know, Wojes leaving at the top
of his game, gonna go going to be the general
manager of his alump of his college alumni. Went to
(36:29):
school at Saint Bonaventure. So now this is left a
hole in the in the top of hey NBA insiders.
And in the last couple of days, ESPN has announced
that potentially, or the stories potentially that Jeff Passon big
time baseball insider, right one of the best out there,
or potentially Adam Schefter, one of the best NFL insiders
(36:52):
out there, could take over that role and be like
the the the the emeritus insider or the the the
the overwhelming inside, I don't know what. They would call them,
the ultimate insider. And it would it would break ultimate, yes,
it would. It would break barriers and suddenly shifters what
he's doing for the NFL, he'd be doing for the NBA,
(37:13):
or Jeff Passing doing that for baseball and for basketball.
And I see this and I and I go wow,
and and and you know, there's a couple of things
that come because I know exactly how this comes up.
Number One, ESPN they fight a pr problem anytime they
hire somebody, give him big money, right, because they lay
people off. But here's money for this guy, here's money
for Pat McAfee. But we don't have money for these guys.
(37:35):
Probably Shams is costing too much money or whoever they're
going to bring in is costing too much money?
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Yeah, agent, yeah, hey, uh, well.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
We're paying Schefter and and uh and passing a lot
of money. Let's just pay them a little bit more,
you know, or decent amount more. And there will be
the insiders too. We'll set them up right, well, we'll
make introductions, we'll let them talk to who they need
to talk to, and and and and gms will call
them with news breaking. It's gonna be that simple. And
I'm sure it was some idea that somebody came up
(38:05):
with and it sounds interesting and it sounds groundbreaking, so
we're gonna run through it. We can save money, we
can do something that's ever been done before. Yes, let's
go ahead and do it. Okay, let's see how this
really goes. Let's see how many Let's see how many
how many breaking stories a non NBA person gets, especially
when you get to a point where Chefter can be
(38:26):
very polarizing and some of the you know, questions about
how you know who he really reports for and you know,
teams that he gives favorable reports to. Let's see how
this goes when it's really put into practice, because that's
a really hard thing to do.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Can I just I'll be that guy? And I've made
this argument before, but I'll do it again. Ten minutes
after something breaks, do we remember who broke it? I mean,
I know they keep score and the networks trying to
fight each other keeping score, But as you as a consumer,
do you care that it was shams or woesh other
than I mean, really, this all comes down to it
(39:01):
should be settled at Hell in a cell and all
of these guys vying for a title, and it should
be part of the WWE extra experience you want.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
You want in as the ultimate insider.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
You're gonna have to fight through these other sixteen wannabes
and a couple of wild cards from local jurisdictions.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Hey guess what, I want a wild card to get
into this competition. I gotta win a couple of matches.
Then I get to go to the semifinals.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
If I beat that ass and in this event, I
get to be the top guy for ESPN.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Let's see how this goes.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
It actually winds up going this way, but down the
ring on Twitter and how about of Fresca Mike and
Swollen Dome James is with Mike Harmon Coming up next,
we get back into the biggest NFL story the last
twenty four hours and the big change in it earlier
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